Mangaluru : BJP legislators from the coastal belt on Monday sought an inquiry into the release of the audio clip of  BJP Nalin Kumar Kateel. Minister for Welfare of Backward Classes and in-charge of Dakshina Kannada Kota Srinivasa Poojary, speaking to reporters at Kalavara, near Kundapur, said that the clip has been released in the […]

Mangaluru : A Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) Review meeting here on Saturday decided to summon senior officials from Bengaluru responsible for Aadhaar registration after legislators pointed out that there is a mess at the registration counters. Raising the issue, Ivan D’Souza, MLC, said that at some counters, people would have to stand in queue from […]

Bangalore : All the 300 legislators of the State are now allowed to hire one more personal assistant (PA) each, whose salary will not be less than Rs 20,000 a month. Till now, each legislator was allowed to have one PA. This move will put on the State’s exchequer an additional burden of Rs 1.2 […]

Bangalore: Shedding his reported reluctance, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday inducted two senior “tainted” legislators into his nearly eight-month old Ministry, apparently bowing to the Congress high command. Former Congress state unit working president D K Shivakumar and Roshan Baig, who are viewed as “scam tainted”, were administered the oath of office and secrecy […]

Bangalore: Two private complaints were filed against two Karnataka legislators before the Lokayukta court here on Tuesday, including one alleging amassing of wealth to the tune of Rs 300 crore, disproportionate to their known sources of income. A private complaint was filed by social activist Dinesh against BJP MLA of Rajarajeshwarinagar assembly constituency, M Srinivas […]

Bangalore: Even as former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa convened a meeting of his loyalists here, Minister Bhalachandra Jarkiholi on Sunday threatened to resign along with 19 other legislators if infighting over the leadership issue was not put to an end. “If the infighting in the party does not end, I, along with 19 other […]

Bangalore : As a first sign of political realignments in the state, five legislators, who were elected in the 2008 Assembly polls as Independents — and all former ministers — including Narendraswamy and Venkataramanappa, are likely to join the Congress once elections are sure to be held to the Assembly. According to highly-placed sources in […]

Bangalore : Karnataka’s  Chief Minister-designate D V Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday promised to give “pro-development and people-friendly” government as he sought to reach out to the rival camp in ruling Bharatiya Janata Party  by saying he would seek to unite and take everybody into confidence.  “I would like to give a good government…pro-development and people-friendly […]

Bangalore: Karnataka’s chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa finally resigned on a gloomy and cloudy Sunday amid high drama after keeping everybody guessing as he delayed his appointment with state governor H.R. Bhardwaj by over an hour. The 68-year-old Yeddyurappa submitted his one-line resignation letter to Bhardwaj at Raj Bhavan, three days after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s […]

Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday ruled out allowing scam-hit Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to pick his successor, even as it continued efforts to make him quit without conditions. ‘The new chief minister will be decided based on the opinion of all legislators,’ state Home Minister R. Ashoka told reporters after a meeting […]