Amid a political slugfest over the Rafale fighter jet deal, state-run HAL's Chairman and Managing Director R Madhavan Wednesday said the aircraft manufacturing company is contending not to be an offset partner of any original equipment manufacturer.

Scam-tainted mining czar and former minister Janardhana Reddy is facing the threat of arrest again in old deals and illegal money transfer cases. It is said that he is preparing to file anticipatory bail application before the court.

With a record victory of Anitha Kumaraswamy in Ramanagar Assembly constituency in the by-election on Tuesday defeating BJP candidate L Chandrashekar with a margin of 1.09 lakh votes, both Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and his wife Anitha Kumaraswamy entered the Legislative Assembly together for the second time and thus created a history.

“I will hold the responsibility for this defeat”, said MLA B Sriramulu.

Responding to the victory of Congress-JDS coalition candidates in the by-election, former chief minister Siddaramaiah ridiculed that the defeating spree of BJP started from today.

 “It is said Ballari is BJP’s strong fort. What happened now” former prime minister HD Deve Gowda asked BJP.

K.R Puram police under WhiteField Division busted a racket of bike lifters and arrested six persons and recovered 15 bikes.

Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said that if the BJP people do not want Tippu Jayanti, it was better to stay at home.