Hubli: Smarting under the BJP high command's decision not to re-induct him, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday blew hot and cold, first saying he will not campaign for the party in the Chickmaglur Lok Sabha bypoll and later declaring that there were no groups in the party. In a show of strength here by his supporters on the occasion of his 69th birthday celebrations, he invoked the...
04:41 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Hubli: In Karnataka, former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has dismissed reports of wanting the state CM's post. He said this after a massive show of strength in Hubli on Saturday after the High Court quashed an FIR in a illegal mining case against him. Here on a mission of show of strength, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday made it clear that he would not ask the BJP...
04:03 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Bangalore:Former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his successor DV Sadananda Gowda have locked horns over who should present the state Budget. Yeddyurappa, who got a clean chit from the High Court in the illegal mining case which cost him the CM's post, is in a hurry to return to power and present the Budget, the penultimate one of this government. On the other hand, Gowda is eager to present his...
11:35 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Bangalore: Facing a fresh come back bid by BS Yeddyurappa after the Karnataka High Court gave him a clean chit in an illegal mining case, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Thursday said the BJP central leadership would decide on the future of his predecessor. Losing no time after the verdict came last evening, Yeddyurappa dispatched a copy of the judgement to party President Nitin Gadkari, who recently had rebuked...
02:48 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Mumbai: Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday said the state is targeting to attract investment commitments of up to Rs six trillion from its forthcoming global investors meet (GIM). The meet, held every two years, is scheduled to be held in Bangalore from June 7-8. At the last meet, Karnataka had signed over MoUs worth over Rs 3.92 lakh crore. Gowda, who is in Mumbai as part of a...
03:18 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Bangalore: All courts will be shut on Saturday after Friday's violence the city's civil court premises. Hundreds of lawyers took on media persons at the court barring them from entering the premises and also threw stones and bottles on them. Several journalists and policemen were injured and a few cameras and media vans were damaged too. Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda will meeting the Karnataka Home Ministry and law department...
07:35 AM, Mar 03, 2012
A video journalist for a Kannada channel was injured in the head while several others suffered blows. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: High drama was witnessed outside the civil court in Bangalore when unruly lawyers attacked mediapersons and pelted stones damaging OB vans, leaving at least 20 scribes and police personnel injured. A judicial probe was ordered by the state government after vehement media protests over the incident. The court complex turned into a battle zone as the rampaging advocates targeted journalists, particularly electronic media crew, who had gathered to cover...
09:24 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: With the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls ending on Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) attention now turns to Karnataka where the party's maiden rule has been marked more by rebellion and scandals than good governance. BJP president Nitin Gadkari has summoned leaders of the warring factions of the Karnataka unit to New Delhi for a meeting Saturday to end the tussle to control the government and the party in...
02:02 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: Amid tight security, former Karnataka Tourism Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy was on Friday produced before a special CBI court in Bangalore which remanded him to CBI custody till March 12 in connection with an illegal mining case. Reddy and 20 others are facing charges for their alleged involvement in illegal mining, over which the CBI had filed an FIR against them in October last. Reddy was...
12:13 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda assured that private channels won't be stopped from covering the assembly proceedings. ...
03:31 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Bangalore: Left embarrassed by its ministers viewing porn in the Karnataka Assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party government is reviving a three-year old plan for the legislature to have its own TV channel. However, the government is promising that private TV channels will not be banned from telecasting the proceedings in the Assembly and the legislative council, at least immediately. Private TV channels are presently allowed to telecast live the legislature...
06:33 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Bangalore: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, who turned 69 on Monday, expressed disappointment over not getting the chief minister's position back and said that he won't ask for any position in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from now. "Nitin Gadkari promised that DV Sadananda Gowda was a temporary chief minister and that he would make me the chief minister again at an appropriate time. It led to all kinds...
02:25 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Bangalore: Former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa may be made the chairman of the election campaign committee, according to the party sources. "This is the face-saving formula not only to the party but also to Yeddyurappa. While the former chief minister would feel that his demand for a position has been met, the party would heave a sigh of relief for having pulled the organisation back from the near-abyss," source told...
08:16 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Gulbarga: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday said former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa should be given an important position in BJP. "Yeddyurappa should be given an important position in the party as he is a very senior leader," he told reporters at nearby Chincholi, adding it was for the central leadership to take a suitable call. Gowda dismissed reports of dissension in the party and said the March...
02:32 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Gulbarga: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday said former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa should be given an important position in BJP. "Yeddyurappa should be given an important position in the party as he is a very senior leader," he told reporters at nearby Chincholi, adding it was for the central leadership to take a suitable call. Gowda dismissed reports of dissension in the party and said the March...
02:32 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Mangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday said the state would get a new Lokayukta in the next 15 days. "The process of consultation for the appointment of Lokayukta will be completed in next 15 days,"he told reporters here. Gowda said he has written to the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Justice Vikramjit Sen and leaders of the Opposition in both houses of state legislature, Siddaramaiah and...
06:58 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka BJP strongman BS Yeddyurappa is believed to have felt let down by the party's central leadership as it resisted his pressure to reinstate him as chief minister, apparently leaving him "seething in anger". Sources close to Yeddyurappa said he was furious and red-faced after BJP President Nitin Gadkari told him in clear terms that replacing Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda is out of the question as of now...
03:23 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Bangalore: BS Yeddyurappa is sulking after BJP President Nitin Gadkari downplayed his rebellion on Friday against Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda. Gadkarai said that there will be no leadership change in the state. "There is no change in leadership no question of it" With every meeting and every statement in the 15 hours that he spent in Bangalore on Friday, Gadkari ensured that he snubbed the man who was once...
09:30 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Friday rejected the reports that there was any crisis in the party in Karnataka over BS Yeddyurappa's ultimatum to reinstate him as the Chief Minister of the state again. However, he said that question of changing Sadananda Gowda as Chief Minister does not arise. "There is no political crisis, party is united. After the UP polls, we have a Lok Sabha by-poll in...
01:04 PM, Feb 24, 2012
