BJP Leaders Basavaraj Bommai, Sunil kumar and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah having a meeting at Speakar U. T. Khader’s chamber at Vidhana Soudha. | Photo Credit: The Hindu On the eve of the presentation of the State Budget, BJP leader and former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to desist from imposing new taxes, … Read more
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai taking part in a roadshow in Yamakanamaradi for BJP nominee Basavaraj Hundri on Wednesday. P.K. Badiger | Photo Credit: P.K. Badiger The former Minister and BJP leader Ramesh Jarkiholi has been lauded for his work for the party by senior leaders | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO The former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi … Read more
Parthenahalli village, located on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border, is the last large settlement on the Athani-Jath road before the crossover into Gugwad village in Maharashtra. The signboards of shops in these villages are in both Kannada and Marathi. Sadashiv Jadhav runs a plant nursery in a portion of his three-acre sugar cane farm. He has one … Read more
The boundary disputes between Karnataka and Maharashtra go back decades and continue to flare up every now and then. Rishikesh Bahadur Desai travels to the border areas and finds that livelihood issues overweigh linguistic concerns even as politics continues to play out in multiple ways Source link
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said the Cabinet expansion will be taken up as per the advice of the BJP high command after the Gujarat elections. The Chief Minister told presspersons in Shivamogga on Friday that he would meet the party high command after the Gujarat elections on the issue of Cabinet expansion. The Chief … Read more
The Karnataka Congress demanded a judicial inquiry into what it called the “Chief Minister’s Office sweet box bribe to journalists”. The Karnataka Congress demanded a judicial inquiry into what it called the “Chief Minister’s Office sweet box bribe to journalists”. The Congress on Saturday alleged that Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai tried to bribe journalists … Read more
The BJP’s stock response to the Congress’s charges is to make counter-charges The BJP’s stock response to the Congress’s charges is to make counter-charges Congress’s ‘PayCM’ campaign was a big talking point in Karnataka last month, with posters of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s image superimposed on what resembled a QR code of PayTM pasted on … Read more
: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said that the government had given impetus to education and employment of the oppressed communities in the State. Speaking after inaugurating Maharshi Valmiki Jayanti and presentation of Sri Maharshi Valmiki award here, he said that every order dispatched from the Vidhana Soudha was in accordance with social justice … Read more
Apart from common citizens, the recent incessant rains in Bengaluru has also mounted troubles for political parties in the state. With assembly elections in Karnataka just seven months away, parties are concerned that the anti-incumbency and the public anger against the recent flood mismanagement may cost them heavily in elections. The heavy rains in the … Read more
The state high-level clearance committee (SHLCC) chaired by chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday cleared 18 investment proposals worth Rs 34,432 crore with a potential to add 48,850 jobs. Of these eight are new projects while 10 are about additional investments. Some of the major proposals cleared are: Trualt Bioenergy’s ethanol plant of 2000 kilo-litres … Read more