Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) stages protest at borders against Session; 10 Bills to be tabled Belagavi: The 10-day Winter Session of the State Legislature began at 11 am today at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi. The Assembly and Council will be in session from Dec. 4 to Dec. 15, excluding Dec. 9 and Dec. 10…
Every time there is an oath-taking ceremony, MLAs do not follow the rules, which is to take the oath either in the name of God or the Constitution. Instead, they take the oath in the name of whomsoever they want. This time was no different, the MLAs began their stint as rule-makers by breaking the…
Bengaluru: As expected, senior Congress MLA U.T. Khader has been unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 16th Karnataka Assembly. Khader, a five-time successive MLA from Mangaluru (erstwhile Ullal) Constituency and also a former Minister, was elected unopposed as he was the only candidate to file nomination papers yesterday. Khader’s election was a foregone conclusion…
Files nomination papers Bengaluru: Ending the suspense over its Speaker candidate, with senior MLAs of the party refusing to accept the post out of fear of getting into political oblivion, the ruling Congress today named five-time MLA U.T. Khader as the party’s nominee for the Speaker’s post, the election to which is due tomorrow (May.24)….
Bengaluru: With many instances of Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly losing the Assembly polls, many newly elected senior Congress MLAs, who are offered the post, are unwilling to take up the post out of apprehension that their political career would come to an end. In the past, many Speakers, who contested the polls, have lost…
Mysuru: Union Home Minister Amit Shah campaigned at the high-voltage Varuna Assembly Constituency this morning in favour of senior BJP leader and State Minister V. Somanna who is pitted against former CM Siddharamaiah. Amit Shah’s chopper landed at the Suttur helipad in Varuna at 12.30 pm and he headed to Hosakote to address a public…
Mysuru: Taking a differing view on the development of NR Constituency, candidates of the three major political parties — sitting MLA Tanveer Sait of the Congress, S. Satish (Sandesh Swamy) of the BJP and Abdul Khader of the JD(S) — have vouched for infrastructure development in the Constituency in their own ways, if elected in…
Mysuru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a mega road show in Mysuru, winding up his whirlwind two-day campaign tour of Karnataka during which he addressed six public rallies and conducted two road shows. In what appeared to be a rerun of sorts of the popular Jumboo Savari witnessed on the last day of the annual…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Assembly on Wednesday passed a Bill to create seven new Universities in the State. The Karnataka State Universities (Amendment) Bill proposes to create new Universities in Bidar, Haveri, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Hassan, Koppal and Bagalkot. Also, the existing Mandya Unitary University’s jurisdiction will be extended to cover the entire Mandya district. Piloting the…
Belagavi: The Anti-Conversion Bill was passed in Karnataka Assembly on Thursday amidst protests by the Opposition Congress. Pandemonium erupted after BJP claimed that the Anti-Conversion Bill was an improvement on the draft prepared during Siddharamaiah’s tenure as the Chief Minister in 2016. Both members of the ruling and Opposition members cast aspersions on each other…
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