Bengaluru: BS Yeddyurappa to be sworn in Karnataka today. The swearing-in ceremony will be held at 6 pm. He reached the Raj Bhavan and visited the governor to make a claim for the government. BJP and Yeddyurappa are trying to form a government in Karnataka.

Yeddyurappa takes oath as CM for the fourth term. The BJP has the backing of 107 people, including two independents. Meanwhile, there are reports that rebel Congress and JDS legislators based in Mumbai will return to Bengaluru today.

New Delhi: The triple talaq prohibition bill introduced in Lok Sabha. Presenting the Bill, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Muttalaq Bill is in line with the Supreme Court’s ruling. After the court verdict, 345 Mutalaq cases have been reported. The minister said the bill was meant to ensure gender justice.

Opposition MPs protested against the introduction of the bill. Members of the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the DMK and the Muslim League has protested. The Congress, the Trinamool Congress, and the DMK have demanded that the bill be left to a parliamentary committee.

RSP MP NK Premachandran asked why the jail does not apply to Hindu and Christian people who are divorced.

The ordinance makes it a criminal offense to divorce a marriage. Earlier, the Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha but was not ratified by the Rajya Sabha.

Muthalaq was banned in the country in 2017.

New Delhi: Four Indian sailors have been arrested in Iran’s oil tanker Grace-1, which was seized by Britain’s Gibraltar. They were later released on bail, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muralidharan said. He said he hoped Indian High Commission officials in London would talk to Indian sailors in the evening.

There are 24 Indian sailors on board. However, it is unclear which of them were arrested. It was also reported that there are three Malayalees on board the ship.

Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale held discussions with the Iranian ambassador to India regarding the release of sailors from Iran’s seized oil tanker Stena Impero. Minister Muralidharan has said that the Indian Ambassador to Iran is in talks with Iranian Foreign Ministry officials.

Owners of Stena Bulk have denied Iran’s allegation that Stena Impero hit an Iranian fishing boat. Bandar Abbas has requested the port authorities to visit the sailors, but there has been no response.

Washington: Prime Minister Imran Khan says more than 40 terrorist groups are operating on Pakistan soil. Imran Khan announced at a reception held on Capitol Hill. Imran Khan said Pakistan was not involved in the 9/11 attacks and that al Qaeda was operating in Afghanistan.

Imran Khan, meanwhile, said Pakistan was ready to give up nuclear weapons if India was willing. Imran Khan said this in an interview to Fox News. Nuclear war is not good for both countries. Imran Khan said the nuclear war would destroy itself. Imran Khan has repeatedly called for US President Trump to intervene in the Kashmir issue.

The US is the most powerful country in the world. Only the US can resolve the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. For the past 70 years, it has been impossible to remain a regular neighbor in Kashmir. “I want India to be ready for mediation,” Khan said.

Imran Khan added that Pakistan will also involve in the US counterterrorism fight and the Pakistani government regretted hiding the truth from the US.

Bengaluru: BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa will be sworn in as chief minister tomorrow after the defeat of the Congress-JDS alliance in the trust vote in Karnataka. Yeddyurappa will meet the Governor today to form the government.

BS Yeddyurappa is back as Chief Minister after a gap of 14 months with Kumaraswamy’s resignation following to the failure of the confidence vote. The BJP is the single largest party with 105 MLAs in the Karnataka Assembly. If the dissidents resign or disqualify them, the BJP will be overwhelmingly supported by the two independents. That is why the BJP decided to claim to form the government.

The motion passed by Chief Minister Kumaraswamy was supported by 99 members. 105 were opposed. Kumaraswamy’s reply speech lasted for about an hour and started the trust vote in the assembly.

Chennai: Former DMK mayor and her husband were killed in an attack by unknown persons in Tamil Nadu.

An unidentified gang attacked the three in Tirunelveli on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Uma Maheswari (61), the mayor of Tirunelveli and her husband Muruka Sankaran (65) and servent.

Uma Maheswari was the Mayor of Tirunelveli from 1996 to 2001. The unidentified men attacked Uma Maheshwari’s residence at around 3 in the afternoon.

Police said the land dispute is suspected to have been the cause of the house attack and the subsequent murder. The police said that the investigation has been extended to all levels and all possibilities will be looked into.