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Bengaluru : Karnataka’s Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah on Tuesday challenged the BJP government to finish him off if they have the capacity. “I am ready to face any consequences. It is not so easy to finish me off,” he said in the Assembly in response to Higher Education Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan’s remarks in a public rally to finish Siddaramaiah off like how Tipu Sultan was finished. Ashwath Narayan had later expressed his regrets over the statements and clarified that his intention was to defeat Siddaramaiah in elections. Siddaramaiah, taking up the issue, maintained that no religion teaches violence. “I won’t be bogged down with such statements,” he said. Attacking the government, he said: “Mr. Home Minister Araga Jnanendra, your department is dead. You are inefficient to handle this ministry. Also Read Karnataka min invoking Tipu while targeting Siddaramaiah sparks row “Tell me the statement of Ashwath Narayan, is it not provocative? Minister Araga Jnanendra is a

Bengaluru: Faced with embarrassment following a bitter public tussle between two senior women officers, the Karnataka government on Tuesday transferred them, without specifying their new posting. IPS officer and Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Managing Director Roopa D, and IAS officer and Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Rohini Sindhuri Dasari had levelled allegations against each other. Also Read Free bus rides for working women, schoolchildren from April 1 in poll-bound Karnataka Roopa’s husband Munish Moudgil, who was Commissioner, Survey Settlement and Land Records, has been transferred to the post of Principal Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms with immediate effect. With the public spat between the two senior women bureaucrats getting murkier, causing huge embarrassment to the government, multiple Ministers had expressed displeasure against their conduct, and had warned action, citing service rule

Bengaluru: Working women and schoolchildren will get free rides in public buses from April 1, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said here on Tuesday. Speaking after dedicating KSRTC’s Volvo Multi Axel BS4-9600 sleeper buses ahead of the polls here, he said the purpose of chalking out this scheme was to enable women become self-reliant. They need to introduce mini school buses and the existing buses will be utilised to start the operation. At the time of starting schools, a minimum of five buses must be operated in each taluk. More grants will be released, if necessary, he said. Also Read Pakistani woman who crossed border to marry Indian man deported “Transport plays an important role in economic development because of this it has been given priority and announced free pass facility for working women and school children in the state budget FY 2023-24. “Our government is always with the working staff and the management and let us provide a good service to the commuters,” he stat

Bengaluru: A Pakistani national who crossed the border and married an Indian she was in love with here, has been sent back, police said on Tuesday. Investigations had revealed that 19-year-old Ikra Jivani has no suspicious or criminal background. She had crossed over only to marry her lover Mulayam Singh Yadav. On January 23, she was arrested along with her husband by the Bellandur police. Ikra, a resident of Hyderabad in Pakistan, got introduced to Yadav through online game Ludo. They fell in love and decided to get married. Ikra went to Kathmandu in Nepal without informing her parents. She had sneaked into India through the Birgunj border in Bihar. The two had reached Bengaluru on September 28, 2022 and settled in a rented house in Junnasandra near Sarjapur Road. Yadav had got her Aadhaar card done in the name of ‘Rava Yadav’ and also applied for a passport. Also Read From anti-Tipu campaign to Ram temple, Karnataka BJP banks on polarisation The central investigating agen

Bengaluru: As the countdown begins for the Karnataka assembly elections, the ruling BJP is pitching the narrative of Tipu (Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan) versus Hindu God Lord Ram and iconic figure of the Sangh Parivar Veer Savarkar in the state. The verbal attacks on Tipu Sultan and his supporters, banning Tipu Jayanti, changing the name of the ritual of Salaam Aarti’ to Aarti Namaskara’, removing textbooks that glorify Tipu Sultan from the syllabus, staging the play Tippuvina Nijakanasugalu’ (Real Dreams of Tipu) which showcased Tipu as a religious bigot, the ruling BJP has set the tone for Hindu polarisation in the state. The BJP has announced the building of a grand and magnificent Ram temple in Ramadevara Betta of Ramnagar district. The party has plans to develop the temple of south Ayodhya. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced the plans during the presentation of the budget. Minister for Higher Education C.N. Ashwath Narayan stated that a Detailed Project Report would be pre

Bengaluru : Intensifying its election campaign in poll-bound Karnataka, the Congress on Saturday launched a ‘poster war’ against the BJP by pasting ‘Kivi Mele Hoova’ (flower on the ear) on BJP posters in Bengaluru and Dakshina Kannada districts. The campaign was pursued aggressively a day after Congress MLAs tucked flowers on their ears inside the Assembly to show their protest against the unfulfilled promises made by the ruling BJP. Flower on ears is a symbolic statement in Kannada, which means making someone a fool. The Congress stepped up the ‘Kivi Mele Hoova’ campaign by taking it to the streets now, the party said in a statement. “Posters of ‘Kivi Mele Hoova’ are seen on the top of the BJP ‘Achievement Wall’ paintings and posters in many parts of the Bengaluru city and Mangalore this morning,” it added. The Congress’ Karnataka unit on Friday had attacked the BJP government for failing to fulfil 90 per cent of its 2018 manifesto promises and also for utilising only 56 per cen

Bengaluru: In a tragic turn of events at a cricket tournament held ahead of the Shivaratri festival, two youths were stabbed to death by a group of people who had come to watch the match. The incident took place on Friday at the Karnataka Public School ground in Doddabelavangala village on the outskirts of the city. The deceased have been identified as Bharath kumar (23), an engineering graduate, and Prateek (17), a pre-university student. According to police officials, the youth were stabbed by four men over an argument on parking their four-wheeler inside the playground. The accused had come to watch the cricket match and were trying to park their vehicle in the ground when some of the spectators and organisers objected to it. With the argument escalating, the accused and their car were attacked. The two victims were not involved in the fight, a police official stated. However, the accused who fled the scene later accosted Bharath and Prateek, who clad in T-shirts provided by t