The tally of Congress has been reduced from 122 to 77 and Chief Minister Siddamaraiah lost from his traditional seat, and barely managed to win from another, he said, mocking the opposition party.
Rama Sene chief detained in Mangaluru on Thursday in connection with the murder of progressive Kannada scholar and researcher Prof M M Kalburgi.
'In a nation where safety standards are the lowest in the world, why make compliance expensive?' asks Aakar Patel.
Three Mumbai-based girls, who were in Ahmedabad for the past three days, have been detained, Additional Commissioner of Police Keshav Kumar said.
'The inability to have children with the person you love is a foundational shock of being gay,' says Vikram Johri. 'Karan Johar's becoming a parent through surrogacy focuses attention on exactly the demographic that India's divisive Surrogacy Regulation Bill targets.'
After Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recommended dissolution of Delhi assembly and holding of fresh elections" to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said it would seek a fresh mandate rather than form an alternative government.
Trump's move followed a rare show of bipartisanship on Thursday when legislators voted to fund large swaths of the government and avoid a repeat of the recent five-week government shutdown.
It is unethical and highly immoral to insult any religion, either of a minority or majority, he said in a statement.
Kumaraswamy said he was ready for probe by even an international agency.
Modi told the delegation that urgent action was needed against those supporting and sponsoring terrorism.
The fake university was set up by the DHS's investigating unit in Greater Detroit area to bust the "pay-and-stay" racket.
'The handling of the pandemic, under this totally constitutional and legal three-level dictatorship, has begun to show its downside,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
'... That they should emerge as role-models to be emulated by the fellow countrymen; and that the middle classes should not stick only to hate-filled and scornful criticism and condemnation against the state of affairs,' remembers Mohammad Sajjad.
'The fight was against those who were being immoral. Not once was there any directive from me or anyone to beat up women,' says Pramod Muthalik, the man behind the shameful Mangalore pub attack incident
The bill now heads to the White House for President Donald Trump's approval.
'Pakistan's security establishment, despite its appallingly immoral approach to conflict, has worked with limited resources to maximise its national defence resources to continue bleeding India,' says Ajai Shukla.
The 61-year-old will be the first woman to lead the agency in its 70-year history.
A Communist Party of India-Marxist leader in Marxist-ruled Tripura who lay on a bed of cash withdrawn from his own bank account to fulfil a long cherished dream, is in deep trouble with his party.
The following is the chronology of events leading to the SC unanimously decriminalising part of controversial Section 377.
Timeline of events relating to proceedings on the issue.
The accused were arrested on Thursday after the victim complained to Mumbai police Commissioner Rakesh Maria.
Senior journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik, who has been facing criticism from various opposition leaders across the nation over his recent meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed on July 2 in Lahore, Pakistan, said on Wednesday that his interview to the Pakistani media has been portrayed by Indian journalists in a wrong way.
'India's reputation is not and cannot be dependent on the whimsical opinions of some obscure foreign advisory committee packed with Hindu-phobic acolytes,' declares Vivek Gumaste.
'The idea of moral responsibility is not particularly strong in our parts. Showing that people are corrupt or immoral through stings doesn't have the required effect in such a culture,' says Aakar Patel.
Niloufar Behboudi was arrested by the Iranian government in May 2016 for posting a picture without a headscarf.
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Sunday said with slew of graft cases surfacing during the UPA government, corruption has taken the shape of a "small scale industry", and the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will be a fight between morality and immorality.
A Ugandan woman, arrested for allegedly pushing three women from her country into prostitution in New Delhi, was on Friday remanded to a day's police custody by a Delhi court.
A day after the Goa police arrested six persons, including a Uttar Pradesh Member of Legislative Assembly, during a raid at a dance bar here, investigations have revealed that the accused brought the girls to the state on their trip and even stayed with them in a hotel.
The transition from the state into two Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh on Thursday was met with a complete shutdown in the the valley as shops and other business establishments were shut, and public transport were off the roads.
The US president's stance on immigration could lead to a change in H1B visa rules.
The magic figure for simple majority was 105, equivalent to the strength of the BJP, which also commanded the support of an Independent.
"I want to peacefully meet the family members of the victims who had fallen to the bullets in the clash. I want to see the orders under which I have been stopped to meet them," Priyanka Gandhi said while sitting on the dharna .
A group of young women and men have had enough of moral policing in Kerala. On Sunday, November 2 they plan to meet at Kochi's Marine Drive and stage a somewhat unique protest that involves... kissing.
Senior Indian Police Service officer Sunil Paraskar, who has been accused of rape by a city-based model, on Friday filed an anticipatory bail application before the sessions court on which granted him interim protection from arrest till July 31.
'LIC's proposed investment will come out of what is technically called the 'policyholders funds'.' 'As the name implies, these monies belong to policyholders; that is, you, me and 25 crore others who have taken a total of 30 crore policies from LIC.' 'It is not the government's or LIC's money to play poker with,' says S Muralidharan, former managing director, BNP Paribas.
'Despite the pornographic quality of its name, Lust Stories is something of an event in Indian popular culture,' says Shuma Raha.
The court struck down the portion of the Speaker's order by which the legislators were disqualified till the end of the 15th Karnataka assembly.
President's Rule can be revoked before the six-month period if a situation emerges for formation of a stable government.
'Kabir Singh will be very special for me, but my goal is to make each character as memorable as Preeti.'
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