The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) increasingly demonstrates that it is becoming a party of contradictions, at least in Karnataka, as it tries to cash in on the strong national mood against corruption while depending on local leader B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is fighting several corruption cases, to shore up its declining fortunes in the state.
Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was taken back into the party to strengthen it ahead of the Lok Sabha election, BJP general secretary Smriti Irani said Saturday.
Irani is in Goa to oversee preparations for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s rally Sunday.
“Whatever needs to be done to strengthen the party will be done,” Irani told the media, when asked why a leader indicted in scandals has been taken back into the party.
Two doctors were dismissed and two others are suspended by the State government on Friday for medical negligence.
The doctors are from Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics (SGITO).While treating 3-year-old Mariyam Kousar they administered an overdose of anaesthesia due to which she suffered brain damage recently .
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has said he is ready to contest in the upcoming general elections.
Earlier, Indian media was abuzz with speculation that the ruling Congress party could nominate the former software czar as its candidate for Bangalore (South) in the 2014 polls.
Nilekani said he is keen on fighting the elections, if given a ticket by the Congress Party.
“Yes, if I am given a ticket (for the polls), yes, I will contest,” he said.
Justifying his entry into politics, Nilekani said he wished to bring forth change in the country.
Situation turned violent on Friday night when local residents stoned at goods vehicle and attacked its driver allegedly for causing an accident killing a six-year-old girl on the spot at Gangondanahalli in Chandra Layout.
Mehroon was the daughter of Salawuddin and was studying at Vidya Sagar School.
The angry inhabitants was soothed by the local police and senior officers who immediately rushed to the spot, deployed additional force and brought the situation under control.
Infosys co-founder and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chairperson Nandan Nilekani on Friday said that he was ready to contest in the upcoming general elections.
Indian IT bellwether Infosys Ltd. has bounced back with double-digit (12 percent) revenue forecast this fiscal (2013-14) and revival in fortunes on return of its co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy as executive chairman.
Revising its guidance upwards once again, the global software major Friday said its consolidated revenue would grow 12 percent in dollar terms this fiscal (FY 2014).
The president of the BJP’s Kodagu district unit in Karnataka was Thursday shot at by unidentified assailants, police said.
M.P. Shuja Kushalappa was attacked in Virajpet, about 35 km from here.
He suffered an injury near the neck and was shifted to a hospital in Mysore, after treatment at a Virajpet hospital, Kodagu Superintendent of Police M.N. Anucheth told reporters.
A Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson said Kushalappa, brother of Madikeri BJP legislator M.P. Appachu Ranjan, was out of danger.
The relatives of Mariyam Kousar, staged a protest in front of the Town Hall on Thursday demanding that the findings of the committee that probed the charges of medical negligence be made public.
Mariyam Kousar,three-year-old who suffered brain damage due to alleged anaesthesia overdose at the State-run Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic.
The four doctors who were allegedly responsible for the child’s medical condition must be suspended, alleged people who had gathered near the Town Hall .
Vidyaranyapura police on thursday arrested Gayathri Reddy, 35, her husband Lakshmikanth, 40and their associate on a charge of cheating several people by promising them jobs with software companies.
The couple is from Nanjappa Layout, and their associate Krishna, 36, were running a fictitious firm, ‘Dream at Job’., According to police,“pocketed” Rs 90,000 each from 15 people, with a promise to place them in software companies,. Vidyaranyapura police detained them when one one of the alleged victims,named Madhusudhan, made a complaint.
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl was sexually abuse by a school van driver .Police arrested the van driver in connection with the the incident .According to police, the incident have occurred when the victim was returning home by the van from her kindergarten on Sarjapur Road on Tuesday.
The child, the only daughter of her parents, would go to crèche by the school van. Her parents live in Devarabeesanahalli. Her father is a chartered accountant, police sources said.
Karnataka is developing a new industrial hub at Chamarajanagar in the old Mysore region to attract investments from neighbouring Tamil Nadu, an official said Thursday.
“We have notified about 1,300 acres of land for acquisition at Chamarajanagar in the border district, which is closer to cities like Salem, Erode and Coimbatore in western Tamil Nadu, to develop textile and granite parks,” Additional Chief Secretary M.N. Vidyashankar told reporters here.
Karnataka Janta Party (KJP) president B S Yeddyurappa and two of his party MLAs formally rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Thursday.
Prahlad Joshi, president of the Karnataka unit of the BJP, warmly welcomed him and other members of KJP into the party. Speaking on the occasion, Yeddyurappa said that the decision to quit the BJP was wrong in hindsight, as it had helped the Congress to come back to power. He said the need of the hour for the BJP was to stay united and to aim for 20 Lok Sabha seats from Karnataka. (ANI)
An efficient power supply system is the key to economic growth and quality of life, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said Wednesday.
“Rising aspirations of our people can be met if our economy grows faster and at a sustained pace. An efficient power supply system is a key ingredient for economic growth and quality of life,” Siddaramaiah said after inaugurating the 11th edition of “Elecrama-2014”, a trade expo of electrical and electronics equipment here.
M Jaishanker Serial rapist and killer, had paid a hefty bribe to a jail official of Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara who provided him with a duplicate key to his prison cell and gave him the opportunity to ranaway from the Central Prison on the night of August 31, 2013, before being caught six days later.
Jaishanker was in four-day police custody till Wednesday. During an interrogation with him, the identity of the official who abeted him in the daring escape had revealed , said a senior police officer.
According to Malleswaram police ,the security guard, Satish, 23, and his aide Siddesh, 26, both from Davangere, had tried to loot cash from the ATM on December 24.
They used a concrete cutter and a gas cutter to break open the ATM but failed in their attempt.
Failure in the first attempt does not stopped them so they gave a second chance to their destiny only to try their luck at a bank branch and a jewellery shop. But they failed in their attempts again.
A builder’s house in Malleswaram was burgled with gold and diamond ornaments worth Rs 20 lakhs.
The house was looted in the absence of the builder.Kumar, a builder, and his wife Anitha Kumari, were in V V Puram at their relative’s place to attend a birthday function. On returning home around 9.30 pm, they found the house in muddle. The back door was broken and jewellery was missing from the closet, according to Malleswaram police.
With a slew of projects under implementation, Karnataka is set to become power surplus by 2017 from being energy-deficit over the years, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said Wednesday.
“We have initiated several projects to generate about 18,000 megawatts through conventional and non-conventional sources across the state over the next five years. Though they are at various stages of implementation, once completed, we will be a power surplus state by 2017,” Siddaramaiah said at a trade expo here.
A local court has ordered framing of charges against French consular official Pascal Mazurier and his trial for the alleged sexual assault of his minor daughter.
“Session Court for Offences against Children judge Shubha Gowdar Monday ordered that there is sufficient material for framing charges against the accused (Mazurier) and to go for trial in the sexual assault case,” special public prosecutor B.T. Venkatesh told IANS Tuesday.
Gowdar posted the case Jan 24 for framing of charges against Mazurier.
Nova Specialty Surgery, a part of the city-based Nova Medical Centres, Monday re-branded as Nova Specialty Hospital to drive its next phase of growth.
“The re-branding of the 13 multi-specialty and short-stay surgical centres will consolidate us into a healthcare brand and facilitate our next growth phase, with each centre functioning as a fully-equipped, standalone hospital,” Nova chief executive Suresh Soni told reporters here.
The Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) supplied 13 types of riveted structural assemblies and seven types of welded fuel tanks, including the critical cryogenic stage, for the Indian space agency’s rocket launched successfully Sunday to inject an advanced communication satellite into orbit.
“Our aerospace division contributed significantly to the successful launch of the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D5) by integrating and delivering all the four booster rockets and the structure of the spacecraft (GSAT-14),” HAL chairman R.K. Tyagi said in a statement here Monday.
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh Monday expressed displeasure over the working of several ministers in the party’s government in Karnataka and cautioned Chief Minister Siddaramaiah against landing the party in controversies by hasty decisions, party sources said.
Digvijaya Singh, who is in charge of party’s Karnataka affairs, expressed these views at a meeting of the party’s coordination committee here, the sources said.
He was upset that Bangalore roads continue to be pot-holed filled with no repair taking place even though monsoon is over, they said.
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has urged Indians not to neglect their ancient tradition, as it is a source of rich information about emotion and mind that the world needs.
The Dalai Lama suggested it should be a part of learning.
“While you are studying or learning or training, as an Indian you should not neglect about thousand-year-old your tradition. That is very-very important. Now it has become quite clear, ancient Indian thoughts is a source of rich information about emotion and about mind. That’s what whole world needs,” he said in the town of Bylakuppe on Friday.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s image of a politician keen on keeping ‘tainted’ people out of his council of ministers has taken a beating with the induction D.K.Shivakumar and R. Roshan Baig in the cabinet early this week. Both face corruption charges.
Siddaramaiah, who took over as chief minister May 13 after the Congress returned to power defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party in the May assembly elections, has been on the defensive since Jan 1 when Shivakumar and Baig were made cabinet ministers as he had resisted pressure for over seven months to induct them in the cabinet.
The annual Travel and Tourism Trade Fair (TTF) began here Friday, with 175 participants from India and abroad showcasing top destinations for holidays and business travel.
As part of India’s biggest network of travel fairs, the three-day event has pavilions representing 19 Indian states and nine countries.
“The fair offers fascinating glimpses of tourist destinations across India and the world over,” Fairfest Media chief executive Sanjiv Agarwal said on the occasion.