Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister for Urban Development and Housing U T Khader on Monday told reporters that he was ready to step down from the ministerial post if it is required to save the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in the state.

Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah Monday asserted that the JDS-Congress government was a 'strong' one and ridiculed state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa for repeatedly claiming that the coalition will collapse.

Mangaluru: Mangaluru MLA Vedavyadas Kamat on Monday assured the families of bringing back the 35 people from Mangaluru who have been stranded in Kuwait after an reported recruiting company’s fraud.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Reserve Bank of India to disclose the list of big loan defaulters it had sent to banks for resolution.

Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar skipped a meeting with the CBI officials on Monday despite being summoned by the agency for questioning in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, officials said.

Stunned by the rout of his Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar and Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha election, Lalu Prasad had given up lunch after the declaration of poll results on May 23 for two days.

 The 17th Lok Sabha's first session is likely to start from June 6 and go on till June 15, sources have said.

The dates of the first Parliament session are expected to be finalised during the first meeting of the new Cabinet on May 31, a day after Narendra Modi takes oath as prime minister of the country for a second term, they said.

Prominent filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Monday added that an FIR has been registered against a person who threatened to rape his daughter on social meda.