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On Friday, Yeddyurappa;s Karnataka Janata Party(KJP) elected its office bearers at a meeting held at the party head office in Malleswaram. Kapu Siddalingaswamy, close aide of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, has been elected as secretary of the KJP)that Yeddyurappa is supposed to lead in the coming days. V Dhananjaya Kumar was elected president,…
Alienated BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Tuesday said that he was not in the BJP and would float a regional party in Karnataka ahead of the next year’s assembly polls. He announced to launch his new regional party on December 10. “I am not going…
Bangalore: Disgruntled BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Saturday came down heavily on some of his party men who have been trying to create confusion on the issue of his exit from the party. “Let them wait with patience till December. There is no question of…
The much anticipated meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee today decided that Tamil Nadu should get 8.85 tmc of water over the next fortnight, but Karnataka maintained that it would not accept it. The “award” of the Committee is based on the findings of a central team that visited Karnataka…
Amid a row over Cauvery water sharing, Karnataka will file a review petition on Tuesday before Cauvery River Authority after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday made it clear that only the authority can revisit the decision about the state releasing water to Tamil Nadu. Congress’ Union Ministers from Karnataka…
Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Monday met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna in New Delhi, seeking his help to prevail upon the central government to provide relief to the state over Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu. Krishna, who hails from the Cauvery basin district of Mandya, about eight…
Bangalore: The dawn-to-dusk ‘Karnataka bandh called by Kannada outfits to protest release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu on Saturday disrupted normal life in the city and river basin districts even as window-panes of some buses were damaged in stone-pelting incidents. In Bangalore city, some persons pelted stones on some Bangalore…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on Monday the Karnataka’s plea to stay its September 28 order to the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from the Cauvery river basin. A bench headed by Justice D K Jain directed listing of the Karnataka’s…
Chikmagalur: BJP strongman in Karnataka BS Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said he might quit BJP and float his own party this December. “I am not going to join any national outfit. I may build a new party. I will announce my decision after touring parts of the state, probably in December”, he…
Following Supreme Courts directive, Karnataka today began releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, setting off a wave of protests against it in the river basin districts. After repeatedly maintaining that the state itself was in a distress situation, the Karnataka government released water from Krishna Raja Sagar and Kabini dams…
Kollam: A team of Karnataka police on Wednesday held inquiries in Punalur in Kerala’s Kollam District as part of investigations in the case pertaining to the arrest of a Keralite woman for allegedly trespassing into ISRO premises in Bangalore last week using a fake ID card. The 41-year-old woman Buela…
Bangalore: The 44-year old Buela N Sam of Ahmedabad was arrested on September 22 after she attempted to enter the Indian Space Research Organisation headquarters on the pretext of attending a conference using a Fake ID Card. City Police Commissioner Jyotiprakash Mirji said that Central Industrial Security Force personnel at the gate…
