New Delhi: Oil marketing companies (OMCs) on Friday decided to increase the price of petrol by 60 paise and diesel by 50 paise per litre; this on a day when the Centre decided to let consumers buy more than one subsidised cylinder per month. The hike, which will come into effect from Friday midnight, is […]

New Delhi: With bleak chances of Parliament giving its nod for setting up a Coal Regulator, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved setting up of the regulator through an executive order that would have only recommendatory powers. “The CCEA at its meeting chaired by Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh gave the nod […]

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs may consider raising the quota of subsidised LPG cylinder from nine to 12 per household at a meeting on Thursday. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had strongly pitched for raising the cap to 12 cylinders per household while addressing the AICC meet earlier this month. He also […]

New Delhi:  The Centre today took the first significant step towards creation of a separate Telangana state from out of Andhra Pradesh and decided that Hyderabad will be the joint capital of the two states for 10 years.   Over two months after the Congress Working Committee put its seal of approval, the Union Cabinet […]

Bangalore : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which came to power for the first time in Karnataka in 2008 and made a mockery of the anti-defection law, is being hit by an exodus of its ministers and legislators ahead of assembly polls in May. Four ministers have quit the Jagadish Shettar cabinet in one month, […]

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet is likely to be reshuffled on Sunday (October 28). Speculation has been rife about a possible reshuffle in the wake of the exit of Trinamool Congress ministers and DMK representatives A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran in the last two years. Reports of an eminent reshuffle gained fresh momentum after Prime […]

Bangalore; Though a clear cut picture is not yet available as to who would make into the Jagadish Shettar cabinet,  the  BJP leaders who held discussions in Delhi throughout Wednesday night have decided to continue all the ministers in the Sadananda Gowda cabinet. They, it is learnt have also decided to entrusted the rest 11 […]

Bangalore : State Governor Hamsraj Bharadwaj is learnt to have suggested the Chief Minister elect to ensure that no tainted ministers make their way into the cabinet. It is learnt, the Governor said so when Shettar  made an official request to the Governor to allow him to form the government. Sources said  the governor told […]

Sullia: Three teams having 14 ministers have been formed to supervise drought conditions in 120 taluks of the Karnataka state, and these 3 teams have fanned out to inspect various dry areas in taluks of Chamarajanagar(South) and Gulbarga-Bijapur districts(north), CM DV Sadananda Gowda said here, speaking to news reporters when he got down from a […]

Panaji: The neighbouring tiny state of Goa, a Konkani state, has become a model to Karnataka where Konkanigas about, in reducing the petrol price by Rs.11 a litere this week. The new BJP government that came to power here after 5 years, has made the drastic change. The Goa rate is lower by Rs.20 a […]