New Delhi: A “Walk the Talk” episode by Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express with Chief Minister Siddharamaiah will be telecast on NDTV at 8.30 pm today. The show features most famous Indians every week. Politicians, movie stars, sportsmen and business magnates all walk the talk.
Not keen on separate State Flag, CM tells High Command
July 20, 2017Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah yesterday clarified to the Congress top brass that the State Government has not taken any concrete decision to have a separate flag for the State. “The Chief Minister clarified that the State Government has just formed a Committee to study the legalities of having a separate flag following requests from some…
Karnataka Govt. wants State Flag, BJP calls move anti-national
July 19, 2017Bengaluru: A long-standing demand by Kannada activists for an official State flag became a major controversy yesterday with Karnataka Government setting up a nine-member Committee to examine the legality and desirability of having and designing a separate flag for the State. The Committee is headed by Kannada and Culture Department Principal Secretary. Heads of Department…
State Govt. to host Third World Kannada Meet in Davanagere
July 19, 2017Bengaluru: The State Government will organise 3rd World Kannada Meet in the month of November or December this year at Davanagere. It was decided during the preliminary meeting chaired by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah at Vidhana Soudha here yesterday. Though a section of writers and others asked if it was necessary to organise the meet amidst…
Miffed CM, high-level probe, prisoners clash, shifting of convicts
July 17, 2017Mysuru: Jails are meant for reforming the prisoners. However, everyone knows that there is dark underbelly consisting of under- trials and convicts in the jails. Added to this, are the Police who also become vulnerable to the system, as there are powerful prisoners housed in the Central Jails all over the country. DIG Roopa D….
Cabinet expansion only after consulting High Command: CM
July 17, 2017Mysuru: Stating that the State Cabinet will be expanded only after holding consultation with the Congress High Command, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has asserted that the Cabinet expansion had nothing to do with ‘Ashada’ month. Speaking to press persons at his Ramakrishnanagar residence here yesterday, the Chief Minister who stayed overnight after conclusion of his two-day…
CM inaugurates Housing Complex at Ekalavyanagar
July 16, 2017Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah inaugurated a Housing Complex built by the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board (KSCB) under JnNURM scheme at Ekalavyanagar here yesterday. Speaking after distributing sanction letters to the beneficiaries, Siddharamaiah said that the KSCB has constructed three G plus Housing Complex at Ekalavyanagar near Metagalli for nomadic communities such as Hakki-Pikki, Sillekyatha, Dombidasa,…
CM directs MUDA to construct LIG houses for poor
July 16, 2017Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has directed the MUDA to construct LIG houses for the poor. Speaking at a programme organised to distribute CA sites to various associations and organisations at MUDA here yesterday, the CM said that he had already directed MUDA to build 2000 cluster houses and he has now instructed the MUDA to…
GM mustard: CM will write to Centre
July 16, 2017Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has assured that he would write to the Centre soon requesting the authorities not to approve GM mustard for commercial cultivation. He was speaking to a delegation that met him at his residence yesterday morning. The delegation briefed the CM about the potential adverse impacts of GM mustard. The CM said…
Government to build seven lakh houses for shelterless: CM
July 16, 2017Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has said that the Government was planning to construct seven lakh houses across the State for the shelterless. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony to construct 2,271 houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana at Bhootale Pitch (Grounds) in Vidyaranyapuram here yesterday, Siddharamaiah said that his Government was functioning under the principle of…
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