Condemning the incident, Bommai said, "Being in favour of community is not secularism, that is communalism. I condemn this, we all should stand together. The government will condemn this."
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was forced to leave Mysore for security reasons in the early hours of Monday, following protests from the Sikh community.Police sources said that Singh, who was shifted to Bangalore under tight security, left for Delhi by the early morning flight.There are widespread protests all over the country by the Sikh community, demanding Singh's arrest, after his security guards killed one person in Mumbai and fired at Sikh protest groups
The "black ink and the deadly attack" cannot suppress the voices of farmers and labourers, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said after ink was thrown on him in Bengaluru.
The Special Operation Group and the anti-terrorism squad of Rajasthan Police arrested Mohd Sirazudin, the marketing manager of IOC in Jaipur.
The raids, taking place mainly in South India, was termed by the NIA as the 'largest ever' investigation process 'till date'.
The Congress leader had said he was not aware of the case for which he has been asked to appear before the agency.
Former Karnataka minister B Sreeramulu, a close associate of former minister G Janardhana Reddy, on Saturday charged the Central Bureau of Investigation with "acting in a hurry" in arresting the mining baron in an illegal mining case. "I am confident that Janardhana Reddy will come clean of the charges of illegal mining levelled against him. The CBI acted in a great hurry in arresting Reddy. We would have cooperated in the investigation," he said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was 'putting pressure' on him to 'frame' the then chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi in an alleged fake encounter case in Gujarat when he was being questioned by the probe agency during the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government.
Vijay Kumar Kamble was allegedly stabbed and attacked with a rod on Wednesday night at Wadi in Kalaburagi
Two persons have been arrested from Udupi in connection with the abduction and gangrape of a 22-year-old medical student from Kerala at nearby Manipal a week ago, police said.
A Muslim group has submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister's Office demanding the intervention of the Union government in the wake of the arrests of various youth in connection with the assassination plot which was busted by the police of Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
Providing succour to distressed farmers, the Karnataka government on Saturday announced waiver of interest and penal interest on crop loans from cooperative banks for the current fiscal and hike in compensation from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to families of farmers who had committed suicide.
The Karnataka police have arrested M B Ali Iliyas Burhan, believed to the main agent of Abdul Kareem Telgi, the man behind the multi-crore fake stamp paper racket, the Stamp Paper Investigation Team said on Friday.
The police found out that he was staying at Mohan Kumar's house in Mysuru from where materials that go into making a bomb were found.
"Reddy brothers are holding the point that they have not violated any rules of mining. We are sure Janardhan Reddy will come out clean...As long as they are associated politically with us, we will own them up," Dhananjay Kumar, Karnataka government's special representative in Delhi, said.
A suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist was arrested on Tuesday by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad in connection with the 2011 serial bomb blasts in which 26 people were killed.
Making the arrest of Indian Mujahideen commander Yasin Bhatkal public has resulted in operatives from the Mangalore and Udupi sleeper cells, who worked directly under him, going underground, reports Vicky Nanjappa
A mobile shop owner from Raichur in Karnataka has been arrested as part of state-wide arrests being conducted in connection with recently-uncovered assassination plot.
The fall of the Congress-led government through a political coup leading to a new Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition and the arrest of two Pakistani militants made 2006 an eventful year for Karnataka.
The Karnataka government charged the Kerala government with not extending co-operation to facilitate Madani's arrest in the Bengaluru blasts case in which he is listed as an accused.
Bajrang Dal Karnataka unit convener Mahendra Kumar was arrested in Mangalore on Friday night.He has been held under Sections 153 A and 120 B. The police have taken suo motu congnisance in this case. The Bajrang Dal has been allegedly responsible for the wave of violence that rocked Mangalore recently. Kumar has been in the news for speaking out against forcible conversions.
The Maharashtra Anti-terror Squad made a very important arrest in the Malegaon blast case late Monday night. Praveen Muthalik, who is said to be one of the executors of the blast was arrested and later remanded in police custody till February 14. He had been absconding for nearly two years.
Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit on Wednesday termed as politically motivated the arrest of former minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy by Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with illegal mining, as the agency had not probed allegations of Congress leaders involved in it.
Prohibitory orders have been clamped in Mangaluru following back-to-back murders of two people belonging to different communities in the last couple of days.
A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against Union Minister Uma Bharti by a local court in Bhopal on Thursday for not appearing before it in connection with a 13-year-old defamation case filed against her by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh.
People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani, who is facing arrest for his alleged role in the Bengaluru blasts case, on Tuesday claimed that he was innocent.Addressing a press conference in Kollam, Madani said, "I have no connection with the Bengaluru blasts."He said he was ready to surrender to the police and "my next move will be only according to the law".He added that he had full faith in the judiciary.
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday attacked Karnataka minister G Parameshwara over his objectionable remarks after women were molested en masse in Bengaluru, saying he has no right to continue in office after the "reprehensible" statement.
Amnesty International India has never involved itself in any kind of anti-national activities, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Saturday, even as it faced sedition charges over an event held by it in Bengaluru in which anti-India and anti-Army slogans were allegedly raised.
'This is the real purpose behind the arrest, and it is not about controlling corruption.' 'It is like taking Amit Shah into custody before the 2024 elections.' 'How will it affect the BJP's election machinery?'
The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau has made another arrest in the cash-for-bail scandal involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janaradhan Reddy. Guduru Dasaratharami Reddy, a businessman who is one of the accused in the case pertaining to the bribing of Central Bureau of Investigation's Judge Pattabhirama Rao to get bail for Janardhan Reddy in the Obulapuram Mining Company scam, was arrested on Friday night.
The Centre on Thursday disputed in the Supreme Court the figure pertaining to alleged attacks on Christian institutions and priests, terming the data "wrong" and claiming the petitioners wanted to keep "the pot boiling" to sully the image of the country abroad.
Assuring a fair probe and strict punishment to those involved in the alleged scam, he said the government is also thinking of bringing stricter laws to control such malpractices.
The specter of terrorism has returned to haunt Karnataka. The Karnataka police recently arrested a cook and a medical student for having strong terror links. The duo revealed that they had plans of bombing the Hubli airport. During the interrogation of Mohammad Ghouse and his friend Assadullah Abbubukar, the police learnt that Ghouse's father Naseeruddin Mohammad is a Lashkar e Toiba operative and has received training in Pakistan.
The series is held together by a superbly astute performance by Gagan Dev Riar, who moves from cheerful conman to menacing criminal with remarkable skill, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Although the police have been associating the name of terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami with these youth, the investigations so far show that this was an independent group, which had a single point agenda -- to protect Islam and eliminate all those who appeared to be a threat to the religion.
'We have to change the Dravidian influence on the people.'
Soon after the clash, prohibitory orders under section 144 of the IPC were imposed in the town.
Amid demands from a section of right-wing organisations for 'bulldozer'-kind of action to those involved in the Hubballi violence, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said those involved in the incident will be tried as per the existing laws.
In a surprising decision the Karnataka government told the high court that it stood by a two-year old Cabinet decision dropping charges against Bharti.
Although initially it was suspected that they could have been in Karnataka to carry out an attack along with another outfit, the Karnataka police have now cleared that doubt and said that there was no danger to Karnataka from this outfit. During the course of investigation conducted on the six persons, it was found that the men had no intention of carrying out an any attack in the state.
