100 percent sure of winning vote of confidence: Yeddyurappa

Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Yedyurappa

Bengaluru : CM Yeddyurappa has said he was “100 percent sure” of winning the vote of confidence in the assembly and completing the five-year term. He slammed the Congress-JDS alliance as “unholy” and charged they were out to grab power though the people had “rejected them outright”, “I am sure of winning the vote of […]

Mungaru Male girl to join BSR Congress ?

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Pooja Gandhi

Bangalore : Popular Kannada actress Pooja Gandhi who rose to fame as the Mungaru Male girl is all likely to  join the BSR Congress. The actress who had initially joined the Janata Dal(S) and was also its state youth wing chief had joined former CM Yeddyurappa’s KJP soon after it was floated. The  actress who […]

Both Cong, BJP govts have looted the state treasury, alleges HDK

Thursday, November 8th, 2012
HD Kumaraswamy

Sullia :  The previous Congress governments and the present BJP government has looted the state treasury by indulging in corruption, alleged former CM and State JD(S) President HD Kumaraswamy, Speaking after inaugurating the Samarasya-Swabhimana Convention of JD(S) at Sullia on November 7, Wednesday,  Kumaraswamy said former CM Yeddyurappa who took oath in the name of […]

DVS wants action against those going against party

Monday, October 8th, 2012
D V Sadananda Gowda

Mangalore :  DV Sadananda Gowda, former CM said there would be confusion in the party if the party high command fails to initiate action against those indulging in anti-party activities by speaking against the party. On the show cause notice served by the party to former minister Dhananjaya Kumar, Gowda said it was the leadership […]

No question of admitting Yeddy into Congress, says Moily

Sunday, September 23rd, 2012
veerappa moily

Mangalore: Senior Congress leader and Union Minister for Corporate Affairs M Veerappa Moily has said that there was no question of the Congress taking into its fold the former CM Yeddyurappa. Speaking to presspersons in Mangalore, Moily made it clear that opportunists had no place in the Congress. Moily said so in the wake of […]

State govt comes to aid of farmers ; waives farm loans

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
State govt comes to aid of farmers

Bangalore: Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has informed the state assembly on Tuesday that the state government has decided to waive Rs 3500 crore farm loans of 16 lakhs farmers, along with interest in the wake of the abject drought conditions in the state. At the same the CM made it clear that the waiver will […]

Why media silent about Lingayat, Okkaliga, Brahmin seers?, questions senior scribe

Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Media exceeded

Mangalore: Senior journalist Shashidhar Bhat questioned whether the media would have gone overboard in portraying Nityanand issue had he been a Lingayat, Okkaliga or a Brahmin swami. Speaking at a function organized by the Journalists Study Centre in Mangalore to mark Kannada Press Day on June 30, Saturday, he pointed out how Lingayat seers even […]

Court ruling today in Yeddy and sons anticipatory bail plea

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
yeddyurappa

Bangalore: The High Court will on Wednesday give its final verdict regarding the anticipatory bail application of former CM Yeddyurappa, his sons and son-in-law in the mining kickbacks case. On Tuesday, the advocate for CBI was questioned by the judge if there was a necessity to arrest Yeddyurappa and other accused for interrogation, to which […]

B.J. Puttaswamy expelled from BJP for anti-party role

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
B.J.-Puttaswamy

Bangalore: The political secretary to former CM Yeddyurappa, who continued with present CM DVS Gowda as well, so long, namely B.J. Puttaswamy, (BJP for short) has been expelled from BJP, for his audacity to contest for Rajya Sabha seat as fourth candidate, now independent. He was removed from primary membership of BJP on Monday. K.S. […]

Jail Superientendent’s transfer and temporary stay order

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
yeddy with police

Bangalore: T.H. Lakshmi Narayana has been unceremoniously sentout on transfer from state Central Jail on October 29 to Bellary prison, and M. Lingaraju was posted in his place here, as Superintendent of Parappana Agrahara, presumably as dictated by a VIP prisoner, ex-CM Yeddyurappa, who stays in cell no.5. The jailor was found guilty of asking […]