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Bengaluru: Slamming repeated visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Karnataka Congress on Tuesday said that he has become quack of inaugurating half-baked projects in the state for gaining mileage in elections. Karnataka in-charge and Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala charged in Bengaluru that CM Bommai-Modi Governments know that the BJP will be decisively defeated in the assembly Polls. They are desperately trying every “publicity stunt” to stay afloat and failing miserably every time. Are Modi-Bommai Governments putting “Poll Publicity” over the lives of Bengalureans and Public Safety, especially when Metro Construction in Bangalore has already claimed 38 precious lives? Surjewala questioned. He alleged that “on March 25, PM Modi will inaugurate a Metro Line from Nowhere to Nowhere” in Bengaluru. Once again it is a discontinuous, disjointed and disconnected Metro Line which will cause more problems to Bengalureans, than it will solve. Also Read Bengaluru My

Kannada actor Chetan Ahimsa was arrested in Bengaluru on Tuesday on charges of hurting Hindu sentiments via his latest tweet that said, “Hindutva is built on lies”. He was arrested this morning by the Sheshadripuram police and produced before the district court. On Monday, he tweeted and shared, “Hindutva is built on LIES Savarkar: Indian ‘nation’ began when Rama defeated Ravana & returned to Ayodhya —> a lie 1992: Babri Masjid is ‘birthplace of Rama’ —> a lie 2023: Urigowda-Nanjegowda are ‘killers’ of Tipu—> a lie Hindutva can be defeated by TRUTH—> truth is EQUALITY” #Kannada actor @ChetanAhimsa has been arrested by Sheshadripuram police. Based on complaint by Shivkumar alleging he has hurt #Hindu sentiments in his tweet. He has been arrested. In his tweet he had attacked #Hindutva claiming it is built on lies. #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/974d93JYTS — Imran Khan (@KeypadGuerilla) March 21, 2023 Hindutva is built on LIES Savarkar: Indian ‘nation’ be

Belagavi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said on Monday that the upcoming Assembly elections in Karnataka is very crucial as it will send out a message to the entire nation. Addressing the ‘Yuva Kranti Samavesha’, a youth convention, here, Kharge said, “We need to face the elections collectively. Belagavi is a sacred land. The 39th session of AICC was held here in 1924, which was the only session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi.” Also Read BRS, SP skip Oppn meet at Kharge’s chamber in Parliament premises Stating that the Congress used to register victory in 15 to 16 constituencies out of the 18 in Belagavi, Kharge said that considering the present scenario, the party will sweep all the seats in the district this time. “The state has never wirnessed corruption at this scale as it is seeing now. Why did Amit Shah not order a probe into the allegations levelled by contractors’ associations? The police have been sent to Rahul Gandhi’s residence for his statement made in Ka

New Delhi: The victim in the Air India urination case has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and airline companies to frame regulations to address incidents of passenger misconduct on board aircraft, and stressed on explicit zero-tolerance policy with respect to “unruly/disruptive behaviour”, which could mandate reporting to it to the law enforcement, failing which action would taken against airlines in all cases. The petitioner also requested the apex court to direct the media to desist from reporting on criminal proceedings, to prevent further shaming and embarrassment for the 72-year-old victim and the perpetrator. The petitioner contended that Air India along with the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have failed to treat the petitioner with care and responsibility after an unruly passenger urinated on the petitioner after having been served excessive alcohol on the flight. The plea said the wide-ranging nationa

Bengaluru : Autorickshaw drivers in Bengaluru will go on a strike on Monday in protest against private bike taxi aggregators functioning in the city. According to Adarsh Auto and Taxi Drivers’ Union president M Manjunath, over two lakh autorickshaws will remain off roads starting from Sunday midnight to Monday midnight. The union has one of the largest membership of autorickshaw drivers in Karnataka’s state capital. The autorickshaw drivers will also take out a march from Bengaluru City Railway Station to the Chief Minister’s House. “We will observe a 24-hour strike starting from Sunday midnight. Our agitation is against the illegal operation of bike taxis operating in the city,” Manjunath told PTI. Also Read Video: ‘This is Karnataka, why should I speak in Hindi?’, autorickshaw driver gets irritated He claimed the state transport department viewed bike taxis as illegal but yet the drivers are operating on the city roads with impunity. Manjunath also said 21 autorickshaw dri

A campaign called ‘Eddelu Karnataka’ (Wake up Karnataka) has been started by a number of social movements, organisations, civil society groups, and individuals as the Karnataka Assembly elections draw near. Some of the members are Prof. Purushottam Bilimale, social anthropologist AR Vasavi, writer-activist Devanuru Mahadeva, writer Rahamat Tarikere, Nadoja Dr. Kamala Hampana, strategy leader for Gigatonne Challenge, and former director of programming for Amnesty International India. Members of the ‘Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan,’ including Vijay Mahajan and Yogendra Yadav, also extended their support to this cause. “The upcoming elections will decide whether our state will be able to breathe free and recover from the toxic suffocating atmosphere of today’s Karnataka politics or not,” stated an appeal signed by Devanur Mahadeva, Rahamat Tarikere, Purushottam Bilimale, A.R. Vasavi, and Vijayamma. “The people are deeply dissatisfied with the ruling party. This resentment must be transformed i

The Bengaluru-Mysuru highway in Karnataka, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated six days ago, was inundated on Friday night after heavy rains in the state’s Ramanagara region. The expressway road, which cost Rs. 8,480 crore, became flooded near the Ramanagara district of Bengaluru. The water remained stagnant in the highway underbridge, resulting in a series of bumper-to-bumper accidents, slow-moving vehicles, and long periods of traffic jams on the highway. This is the same underbridge that flooded last year during Karnataka’s record-breaking rains. #Bengaluru Light rainfall which happened overnight on #BengaluruMysuruExpressway has resulted in flooding near Ramanagara on Saturday (18-3-23). The expressway was inaugurated last week by PM Modi Few days back there were reports of bad roads on the newly built expressway. pic.twitter.com/eYJ7B5Wu7l — Kamran (@CitizenKamran) March 18, 2023 PM Modi inaugurated the 118-kilometer-long Bengaluru-Mysuru motorway on M