Bengaluru: Congress in-charge KC Venugopal has alleged that the Maharashtra government blocked Minister DK Shivakumar's entry into the hotel on the direction of Center. This shows that the BJP is conspiring to dislodge the Congress-JDS coalition government in the state.

Mumbai: Senior Congress leader and Karnataka Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar will return to Bengaluru from Mumbai after he was released from the Mumbai Police’s detention.

Bengaluru: Slamming the denial of entry to a Congress minister from Karnataka to a Mumbai hotel to meet 12 rebel MLAs, former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda Wednesday said the situation was "worse than Emergency" and he had not seen anything like it in 60 years of public life.

Bengaluru: In another blow to the ruling coalition government in Karnataka, two more MLAs of Congress submitted their resignations on Wednesday afternoon.

 The BJP in Karnataka staged a 'dharna' at the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday, demanding the resignation of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who they claim has lost majority in the House after the resignation of 14 MLAs of the ruling Congress-JD(S) alliance.

Bengaluru: Four workers including a child died after a multi-storey building collapsed on Wednesday morning at Hutchins road near Pulikeshi Nagar in the city here. Two more people are feared trapped under the debris at the accident spot.

The political crisis in Karnataka Wednesday reached the Supreme Court as 10 rebel Congress and JD(S) MLAs moved their plea alleging that the state Assembly Speaker has been deliberately not accepting their resignations.

High drama was witnessed outside a hotel here on Wednesday as senior Congress leader and Karnataka Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar was prevented from entering the premises where the rebel MLAs are stationed.