Chennai: O Panneerselvam has succeeded All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)) chief as Tamil Nadu’s new Chief Minister. He will take oath as the CM at 11 am on Monday. The decision to appoint Panneerselvam as the CM was taken at a meeting of AIADMK MLAs at the party headquarters in Chennai on Sunday […]

Mysore: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday clarified that his government has no plans to take over religious maths or interfere in their affairs. Speaking after inaugurating a guesthouse at Sri Suttur Kshetra near here, Mr. Siddaramaiah denied reports that his government was contemplating taking control of some prominent maths and appoint administrative officers for them. […]

Bangalore: The former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar will be the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly with Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa according him that status and announcing in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday that the Bharatiya Janata Party will be the principal Opposition party. This follows the four legislators from the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led Karnataka […]

Bangalore: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday finally yielded to the pressure to expand his seven-month-old ministry, and decided to induct senior leaders D K Shivakumar and Roshan Baig into the Cabinet. The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for 5:15 pm at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.Siddaramaiah, who had been resisting the demand to incorporate the two leaders […]

Shimoga : Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the Congress has chalked out strategies to tackle Narendra Modi factor during the coming Lok Sabha polls. “We have discussed Modi factor in the core committee meeting held recently. I am confident that Modi factor will have no impact in the State in the Lok Sabha polls. […]

New Delhi : Political parties reacted sharply to a remark by the President of the Jamiat-i-Ulema-e-Hind, Maulana Mehmood Madani, that “secular parties” should not attempt to create fear among the Muslims of Gujarat citing the bogey of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in order to get votes. While the BJP took the remark as proof of […]

New Delhi: Diplomats from around 35 foreign missions are likely to attend Narendra Modi’s rally here on Sunday but the US Embassy and the British High Commission have conveyed to BJP they will not be able to honour the invite. BJP Overseas Cell Convenor Vijay Jolly said he had sent invitations to over 50 foreign […]

Bangalore : Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Minister H.D. Revanna on Wednesday took a dig at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for not having visited the flood and drought affected people in the State. Speaking to presspersons, he said the Chief Minister is so overburdened with the number of portfolios he handles that he does not […]

Bangalore : The banned single-digit lottery is rampant in the State but the government is looking the other way, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, H D Kumara- swamy, alleged on Friday. Single-digit lottery is played by selecting any number from 0 to 9 and placing a bet of a specified amount. If […]

Bangalore : The appointment of A Krishnappa as the president of the State unit of the JD(S) is seen as a reply to the allegations made by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and to garner votes of the other backward classes (OBCs). Siddaramaiah has been charging that JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda, being a Vokkaliga, never allowed him to […]