Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned to January 12 applications of former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and Housing Minister V Somanna and his wife for anticipatory and interim bail in an FIR against them alleging irregularities in denotification of land. When the applications came up for hearing, Justice Subhash B Adi adjourned […]

Bangalore : Karnataka’s Lokayukta (ombudsman) special court Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the role of Housing Minister V. Somanna, former state chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and two others in freeing state-owned land from government control by flouting rules. Admitting a private complaint filed by Ravikrishna Reddy, a techie, which alleged that Yeddyurappa allotted the state […]

Bangalore: In fresh trouble for former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, another complaint was Thursday filed against him and Housing Minister V Somanna in the Lokayukta court in an alleged land scam. The complaint pertains to alleged acquisition of 22 guntas (a gunta is 1/40th of an acre) of government land in Nagadevanahalli by […]

Mangalore: The Mysore prince Sri Kantadatta N. Odeyar participated in his spiritual Guru Sri. Chandrasekhara Swamiji’s birthday celebrations arranged by Swamiji’s Charitable Trust in a simple ceremony, felicitating him with greetings and acknowledging him to be the spiritual ambassador of India and Karnataka. Several animals were adopted on the occasion and several prisoners who could […]

Belthangady: Housing minister V. Somanna visited shantivana in Dharmasthala to inaugurate a new complex of Yoga and Naturopathy Hospital on Oct20, Thursday, and told reporters that he had to skip the Namma Metro Railway function, only to participate in this event. He added that while Bangalore provides some amenities to people living there, Dharmasthala guides […]

Bangalore : A “disgruntled” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker Saturday tried to hit Karnataka Housing Minister V. Somanna in the state secretariat with a sandal but was restrained, police said. The man, identified only as Prasad, was immediately overpowered by Somanna’s staff, roundly thrashed and handed over to police. Prasad, said to be in his […]

Bangalore: While V.Somanna, named in Lokayukta report on illegal mining, managed to extricate himself from punishment by saying that his sons were managing mines(not he), and was inducted as a minister for Housing again on Monday(Aug.8), the Bellary Reddy group has come under sullen shaky  fear of loosing their power and prestige, in the loser’s […]

Bangalore : Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Minister V Somanna today said the department planned to complete the distribution of ration cards to people Below Poverty Line before April  2011. Mr Somanna told reporters here most of the people under BPL were still deprived of the ration cards and its benefits and the department would […]