Suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad on Thursday said he will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls but not as a BJP candidate, hinting his inclination towards the Congress.
With the onset of every monsoon, this cascading waterfalls called Arbi appears amidst the nature attracting tourists from different places of the region. But soon after the rain season, it disappears from the scene.
The first meeting of the coordination committee of JD-S-Congress on Thursday decided to constitute a five-member committee for drafting a Common Minimum Programme while continuing the popular schemes of the previous Congress government in Karnataka.
Categorically declining the role of BJP in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, former chief minister and BJP leader Jagadish Shettar said that the culprits in the case should be punished.
The Congress on Thursday supported the government's stand in dismissing the UN report on Human Rights in Kashmir, saying the report was "prepared with zero understanding of situation in Jammu and Kashmir".
Strongly reacting to the statement of Congress leader and former minister Tanveer Sait, Housing and Urban Development Minister UT Khader said that “the community is not in the pocket of any one person. People would decide on this issue. I have not missed the chance of anyone getting the minister post. It would not happen too. Everything was happened as per the decision of the party high command”.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley's remark that India is among the world's fastest growing economies was severely criticised by the Congress on Thursday, with party's chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala saying that growth under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government is at a four-year low.
As the Shawwal Moon sighted on Friday night, Uudpi, Chikmagaluru and Hassan districts Khazi PM Ibrahim Musliyar Bekal appealed the Muslim community to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday posted for July 11 a plea by a monitoring committee - mandated to identify and seal unauthorised structures in the national capital - which said the South Delhi Municipal Corporation was not cooperating.
As the Tunga river is overflowing on the SK Border and Nemmar road which connects Mangaluru and Chikmagaluru, the traffic movement on the road was suspended on Thursday.
