On July 29 last Saturday at 4 am, 44 Gujarat MLAs were escorted into Eagleton Golf Resort on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway by D.K. Suresh as per the instructions of his powerful brother, Power Minister Doddalahalli Kempegowda Shivakumar, popularly known as DKS. DKS, like former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, is well-versed in moving people and keeping them…
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Don’t defend DKS much, Cong top brass tells State leaders
August 5, 2017New Delhi: The Congress top leadership has cautioned the State unit to be more guarded in defending Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar to avoid a perception that the party was shielding the corrupt. The party should only criticise the timing of the raids and use of central force rather than defending under-scanner leaders per se, is…
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Congress workers stage dharna, condemn I-T raid
August 2, 2017Congress workers, led by former ZP President Marigowda, staged a demonstration in front of Mahatma Gandhi bust near Mysuru City Law Court Complex condemning the I-T raids against Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar, MP D.K. Suresh and their relatives. The protestors alleged that the Central Government was misusing its machineries.
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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…
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I will fight 2018 polls as directed by Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, says CM
July 15, 2017Nanjangud: Maintaining that he was contesting the 2018 Assembly polls on advice from AICC President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah appealed the people to once again bless him for leading the State. Addressing the gathering during the Foundation Stone laying ceremony for the construction of a Primary Health Care Centre and…
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Congress targets 120 seats to counter BJP’s Mission 150 and 115 seats of JD(S)
July 12, 2017Bengaluru: If the Bharatiya Janata Party under the leadership of former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa is on its “Mission 150,” the Janata Dal (Secular) under the leadership of former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy is targeting 115 seats in the 2018 Assembly elections, not to be left behind, the Congress too is silently working on gathering 120 seats….
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Vishwanath Quits Cong.
June 23, 2017Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader and former Mysuru-Kodagu MP Adagur H. Vishwanath, who was mulling quitting Congress for some time now, has finally resigned from the primary membership of the party. Participating in an interaction with reporters organised by the Bangalore Reporters Guild at the Bengaluru Press Club this morning, Vishwanath, who is also a former…
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Congress planning to lose its hold on Karnataka, too? With boldness (not National Herald) it can win
June 20, 2017Even in its glory days, the National Herald never had a South Indian presence. It was always a Delhi-Lucknow entity and knew it. It would have been another inconsequential provincial rag but for its ownership (Jawaharlal Nehru) and its editorship (Chalapathi Rau). Actually, the latter more than the former. While Nehru was an absentee overlord,…
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Congress stages protest against Union Government’s anti-farmer policies
June 18, 2017Mysuru: Accusing the NDA Government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of following anti-farmer policies, members of Mysuru District Farmers Congress Committee staged a demonstration at Gandhi Square in city yesterday demanding waving off farm loans in public sector Banks. Strongly condemning the police firing on protesting farmers at Madhya Pradesh recently, the protesters sought…
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Congress to relaunch National Herald in Bengaluru
June 7, 2017New Delhi: National Herald, the pre-Independence era newspaper, founded and launched by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru from Lucknow on Sept. 9, 1938, is all set to be re-launched in Bengaluru on June 12. In 2008, the newspaper, known to be backed by the Congress and the Gandhi family, stopped its publication citing…
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