Bengaluru : Thawarchand Gehlot was sworn in as the 19th Governor of Karnataka, on Sunday at Rajbhavan. He succeeds Vajubhai Vala, who was Governor since 2014. The Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka administered Gehlot the oath of office in the presence of outgoing Governor Vala, Speaker of the Karnataka […]

Mangaluru : State BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel said that the issues related to Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa writing to Governor Vajubhai Vala, accusing Yediyurappa of interfering in his department, will be sorted out within two days. “We will speak to all the MLAs of the party. BJP National General […]

Bengaluru : Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday expanded his 17-month-old cabinet, inducting seven ministers including Sullia MLA S Angara from Dakshina Kannada. The new Ministers are MLAs Umesh Katti (Hukkeri), S Angara (Sullia), Murugesh Nirani (Bilgi) and Arvind Limbavali (Mahadevapura), and MLCs R Shankar, M T B Nagaraj and C P Yogeshwar. Governor […]

Udupi: President Ramanath Kovind arrived at Adi Udupi Helipad on Thursday, December 27. He was accorded a cordial welcome by diwan of Pejawar Math Raghuram Acharya in the presence of Governor Vajubhai Vala, Nagaland governor PB Acharya, Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis, SP Laxman Nimbarigi, district in-charge Minister Jayamala. Kovind arrived via a flight at […]

Bengaluru: Karnataka governor, Vajubhai Vala, communicated that wrong policies and choices of the first Prime Minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, were responsible for the creation of Kashmir issue, which has irritated throughout the years into a major issue of encounter between the two nations. Talking at the ‘Kargil Vijay Diwas’ program for paying tributes […]

Bengaluru: Unfurling the vision of the new JD(S)-Congress government in Karnataka for the following five years, Governor Vajubhai Vala said full scale attempts would be made to encourage farmers, women and youth. In his first joint address to the state legislature after the new assembly’s constitution. he said “My government is focused on the welfare […]

Mangaluru : JDS and Congress activists on Saturday celebrated the victory for Governor Vajubhai Vala inviting of the Congress-JD (S) alliance in Karnataka. Congress workers, led by former MLA J R Lobo held a victory celebration outside District Congress Committee office. They burnt crackers and shouted slogans even as they received the news of JD(S)-Congress […]

Bangaluru: BJP legislative party pioneer B S Yeddyurappa was sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka on Thursday, May 17. Governor Vajubhai Vala regulated the oath at Raj Bhavan. All recently chosen BJP MLAs took part in the ceremony. BJP has the help of just 105 MLAs, which is far from the magic numbers to […]

Hassan: Governor Vajubhai Vala, on Thursday, stressed that people should be served on the basis of humanity and not on the basis of caste or religion. After inaugurating the District Red Cross Bhavan on Salagame Road here he said that it is not right to render service differentiating the people as Hindus, Muslims, Christians or […]

Bengaluru: Governor Vajubhai Vala has said the state government has been maintaining peace and dealing firmly with sporadic incidents of violence in the state. Vala was addressing the joint session of the Karnataka legislature on Monday in Vidhana Soudha. Opposition parties have been charging the home department with failure to maintain law and order in the […]