Bangalore : It is unlikely that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thought its scam-tainted former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will quietly walk away into the sunset after losing his post. The very fact that his successor, Sadananda Gowda, has had to insist that he is not Yeddyurappa’s puppet is evidence enough of the strength […]
Geneva/New Delhi: you work for hard money for 10 hours a day, but it evaporates into rolls of printed paper, not worth its weight in gold and silver. Then you transfer it to Swiss banks, Bermuda, Mauritius, St.Kitt’s, Liechtenstein, or Timbuktu. Are you happy now? You have evaded a national Govt., its Tax department, and […]
Trivendrum: A caretaker heritage of wealth found in Kerala’s dynastic (Verma family) temple of Sri Anantha Padmanabha Swamy contains over Rs.1.5 lakh crores of gold/silver valuable and cash (coins/notes) which need to be taken good care of. At a time when Kerala High Court had asked the state govt., to oversee and guard the historic […]
New Delhi: Was Dr.M.Veerappa Moily expected to be shunted out of Low and Justice ministry? Not really. But he made it. He found a way out to join Corporate Affairs ministry, by his loud mouth and bare hands. He did not work like other law ministers before him. He suspected that there was a conspiracy […]
Mangalore: Saying that there cannot be on alternate or a parallel government in the name of Lokpal, the UPA govt., mostly congress ministers prepared a diluted version of the draft Lok Pal bill to be introduced in Lok Sabha, but the civilian Anna Hazare team called it a “hoax” of a draft bill, since there […]
Mangalore: A raging debate is going on all ever the country about who should be included in the previsions of the proposed (Janata) Lok Pal bill now being formulated in June 2011 by a committee of 10 members, five of them Congress ministers(mostly tainted) and 5 civilians (partly tainted) what about PM and Judges ?should […]
New Delhi: Of what use are these meetings between group of ministers(Gom) and 5 representatives of civilian society that was formed to draw up a Lokpal bill with Centre? About 5 or 6 meetings held so far since April, have now ended in failure, with Lokpal bill ridiculed by Hazare as “Jokepal bill” with a […]
Bangalore: BJP started as a minority government in 2008 and ‘Operation Lotus’ has only one goal, to snatch as many MLAs from opposition parties as possible towards BJP to make a majority of sorts. Three years went by in controversies and clouded atmosphere of allegations and counter-charges. There were frequent in-fights within the cabinet and […]
Pejawar seer sets new deadline to withdraw land acquisitionMangalore : Sri Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji of Pejawar Mutt said that he will set a new deadline of July 13 for the land acquisition by Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) at the second phase by the government. Speaking at the media, he said that, the government must […]
Mangalore: On Saturday morning at Kuloor Junction, the Surarhkal Block Congressmen organised a ‘Rasta Rokho’ agitation against the ruling BJP govt. seeking its removal. Vijaykumar Shetty was the chief speaker during demonstration in public that inconvenienced highway traffic. He said that 16 MLAs including 11 from BJP suspended by the speaker went to Supreme Court […]
