Bengaluru: Congress MLA from Hebbal Assembly Constituency Byrathi Suresh on Friday escaped narrowly a knife attack by a local youth after the MLA’s car slightly collided with the latter’s two-wheeler, here near the MLA’s residence.

Mangaluru: Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday took a dig at Karnataka BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel adding that the latter doesn’t know anything about the state except Mangaluru from where he belongs.

Pakistan was again put on the Grey List of the international terror financing watchdog FATF, which on Friday warned Islamabad of action for its failure to combat money laundering and terror financing, officials said.

Mangaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah on Friday slammed Modi government for proposing Savarkar’s name for Bharat Ratna Award, while calling the later as one of the conspirator of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.

 The CBI filed a charge sheet before a Delhi court Friday in the INX Media corruption case accusing former finance minister P Chidambaram and others including bureaucrats of causing loss to the exchequer by allegedly committing offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Friday dubbed Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, as Left-leaning. Patel made the remarks at a media briefing here.

The Rajasthan government has filed an appeal in the high court here against the acquittal of all six accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case.

Muslim parties in the Ayodhya land dispute case on Friday issued a statement expressing shock over reports suggesting that the Sunni Waqf Board was withdrawing from the case.