Bengaluru: Violent protests rocked Karnataka on Monday after the Supreme Court refused to freeze its order to release Cauvery water. Outlets of Adyar Ananda Bhavan were attacked at some locations. The burnt shells of several trucks were found in different areas. As news about buses belonging to KPN Travels being torched emanated, political party leaders […]

Mangaluru : Former Governor of Odisha Rameshwar Thakur passed away on Thursday. He was the Governor of Odisha from 2004 to 2006. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik condoled his death. In a message, the Chief Minister said Thakur was a noted administrator and great politician. Thakur was also Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 2009 to 2011 […]

Bengaluru: Hitting back at BJP President Amit Shah for his offensive against the Congress government in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said they did not need lessons of honesty from BJP, whose former ministers and a former Chief Minister were jailed on corruption charges. “There is no need for Congress to learn lessons of […]

Bangalore : Senior Congress leader A K Anthony announced the name of Siddaramaiah as the next Karnataka Chief Minister on Friday. At a meeting convened by the party to elicit the view of the new legislators on Chief Minister’s post, Siddaramaiah moved a resolution requesting that the CLP leadership be left to the Congress President […]

Bangalore : Congress has set the ball rolling for picking its Chief Minister in Karnataka by convening a meeting of its newly-elected MLAs here on Friday at around 12 noon with senior leaders Mallikarjuna Kharge and Siddaramaiah being considered front runners in the race for the top post. The observers are slated to elicit the […]

Bangalore : Karnataka strongman B.S. Yeddyurappa has said that he is confident that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will reinstate him as chief minister of the state. “I have got 100 percent confidence that they will take some appropriate decision as they had promised previously. The high command knows what has to be done,” Yeddyurappa […]

Bangalore: DV Sadananda Gowda has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka on Thursday. The swearing-in ceremony took place at 4.30 PM with Governor HR Bhardwaj administering the oath of office and secrecy to Gowda. But the swearing-in ceremony also brought to the fore differences within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as Jagadish […]