Karnataka

Supporters of former Karnataka minister Satish Jarkiholi have protested against his exclusion from the state cabinet. Mr Jarkiholi who belongs to Belagavi in north Karnataka had resigned as the secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) after he was left out of the first cabinet expansion earlier this month. Congress, which has been allotted 22 out of the 34 cabinet berths in the coalition government with the Janata Dal Secular, is yet to fill up six slots.

Six boys studying class IX in a school have gone missing, sending the parents and police into a tizzy.

The community which performed the wedding of dolls believes that this age-old forgotten tradition has been revived as it brings good luck.

As Karnataka has received generous rainfall in the last few days and water levels in its reservoirs have soared, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said he is happy to release Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, which is expected to get 20,000 cusecs from Kabini dam in Mysuru. He also promised to give Tamil Nadu's share of 10 TMC in June as per the Cauvery Water Sharing Authority's order.

With six vacant cabinet berths in Karnataka to fill and too many claimants, the Congress seems to be in no hurry. It has been weeks since the government formation, and lawmakers left out in the first cabinet expansion, who haven't taken too kindly to it, keenly await the next round.

Katnataka's ruling JD-S-Congress has set a target of constructing 5 lakh houses across the state, including 2 lakh in Bengaluru, for poor families over the next five years, said an official on Friday.

Former union minister Veerappa Moily is among the five member drafting committee appointed by the coordination committee of the ruling JDS-Congress coalition in Karnataka to prepare a Common Minimum Programme.

Cauvery River Water: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Friday that he had instructed officials to release 20,000 cusecs from Kabini dam as he expressed hope there would be smooth sharing of Cauvery river water with Tamil Nadu in view of prospects of a good monsoon.

Ignoring the patch-up efforts by the leadership to end disquiet within Karnataka Congress over denial of ministerial berths,disgruntled legislators continued to mount pressure on the party to address their grievances.

The common minimum programme or the agenda of governance of Karnataka's Congress-JD(S) government will be drafted by a five member committee in the next 10 days. This was among the decisions taken by the coordination committee that held its first meeting under the chairmanship of former Congress Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Other members of the coordination committee include Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, his deputy G Parameshwara, Congress in-charge for Karnataka and JD(S) leader Danish Ali.

Karnataka Congress legislator NA Haris's son, accused of a brutal assault on a man at a restaurant in Bengaluru, has been granted bail. Mohammad Nalapad, in jail since February, was granted bail by the High Court on the condition that he wouldn't leave the city without permission.

Karnataka's opposition BJP won three of the six legislative council seats in the June 8 biennial election held in the three Teachers and three Graduates constituencies across the state, said the Election Commission on Wednesday.

A day after Pramod Muthalik, who heads the controversial right-wing group Sri Rama Sene, admitted to knowing an accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, a photograph showing him with another accused, Parshuram Wagmare, has surfaced.

The first meeting of the coordination committee of the ruling JDS-Congress coalition in Karnataka will be held in Bengaluru tomorrow where the two parties would mull over a common minimum programme, senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah said today.

The Congress's partnership with the Janata Dal Secular won it one more seat in Karnataka today. The party snatched the Jayanagar constituency from the BJP by a wafer-thin margin.