To meet PM Modi this evening; Cabinet expansion likely in a week Bengaluru: Lingayat leader Basavaraj Bommai took oath as the 30th Chief Minister of Karnataka at 11 am today. Bommai was announced as the new CM at a party meeting at a private hotel in Bengaluru last evening. Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered the oath…
A cricket fan, Basavaraj Bommai once headed Karnataka State Cricket Association, Dharwad Bengaluru: A close confidante of Lingayat strongman and former CM B.S. Yediyurappa, Karnataka’s new Chief Minister 61-year-old Basavaraj Somappa Bommai was Minister for Home Affairs, Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Legislature in Yediyurappa’s Council of Ministers. He was also the Minister in-charge of Haveri and…
Bengaluru: At a time when the killer COVID second wave invaded Karnataka and the State’s health infrastructure crumbled due to gross negligence and callousness, Basavaraj Bommai, the then Home Minister in B.S. Yediyurappa Cabinet handed over his house in his Assembly Constituency for use as a COVID Care Centre (CCC). The house, located at Shiggaon…
Bengaluru: Basavaraj Bommai took a deep plunge into politics under his father late S.R. Bommai’s tutelage. Somappa Rayappa Bommai was the Chief Minister from 1988-1989 and is immortal in the law books after the Supreme Court gave a landmark judgement disapproving the way he was removed as CM. The senior Bommai along with Ramakrishna Hegde,…
Bengaluru: With the possibility of third wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic looming large, the State Cabinet has decided not to hold Zilla Panchayat (ZP) and Taluk Panchayat (TP) polls at least till December. However, the Cabinet has approved the conduct of Presidential and office-bearer polls for Co-operative Societies, Banks, other Societies and Agricultural Produce…
Police Department to impart training; Officers’ Training Academy planned on the lines of NDA Mysore/Mysuru: The State Government will impart training in ‘self-defense’ for College students in order to prepare them both physically and mentally, said Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai. He was speaking as the chief guest at a function organised in connection with the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who is on a two-day visit to Mysuru, participated in a slew of programmes this morning. He laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Administrative Block of District Armed Reserve (DAR) and Armoury building and residence of Superintendent of Police, Mysuru District, at DAR Grounds in Jyothinagar here….
Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai warns Police officials Mysore/Mysuru: “The State Government is with you, do your duty according to the law but do not expect any support from the Government if you have done mistakes,” warned Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai to Police officials. While addressing a review meeting at the SP Office in city, the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Minister for Home, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Basavaraj Bommai will be arriving in the city this evening on a two-day tour of the district. Bommai, who will arrive by road from Bengaluru at 6 pm, will take part in some programmes and stay overnight in city. Tomorrow (July14), the Home Minister will take part…
Cops seize vehicles moving unnecessarily Seized vehicles to be released only after a week Mysore/Mysuru: Motorists, especially two-wheeler riders, who are out on a care-free and jolly ride by flouting lockdown rules and moving around city unnecessarily should now be very careful as their vehicles, once seized, would be released only after a week. Following…
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