Belagavi Border Row

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has strongly condemned a resolution moved in the assembly of neighbouring Maharashtra, resolving to protect the state's interests amid a border row between the two states where the BJP is in power.

Tension grew in the bordering areas recently, with political leaders on both sides attacking each other. Buses from both states were attacked and defaced with paint in Karnataka's Belagavi and Maharashtra's Pune by stone-throwing political cadres.

Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution on the border row with Maharashtra, resolving to protect the State's interests.

Activists of Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES), an organisation that has been raising the issue for over five decades, have planned massive protests ahead of the winter session of the Karnataka Assembly.

A security blanket has been thrown across the Belagavi city as the winter session of the Karnataka Legislature starts today.

The district administration has prohibited the entry of Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Dhairyasheel Mane to the Belagavi city to take part in an event organised by Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES) on Monday.

Karnataka will hold a symbolic session at its second assembly house in Belagavi tomorrow, amid the Centre's efforts to enforce law and order and establish peace in the disputed Maharashtra-Karnataka border area

Amid the raging border dispute with neighbouring Maharashtra and around five months to go for assembly elections in Karnataka, the winter session of the state legislature will begin at 'Suvarna Vidhana Soudha' in Belagavi on Monday.

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that nothing came out of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's meeting with the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka over the border dispute.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Thursday demanded that the Union government find out the "mastermind" behind the 'fake' Twitter accounts which allegedly fuelled tensions over the boundary dispute.

Vehicles from either side were targeted in Tuesday's escalation, with leaders from both states weighing in, and pro Kannada and Marathi activists being detained by police amid a tense atmosphere in the border district.

Trucks bearing Maharashtra number plates stopped by Kannada group, windshield of one truck is damaged in stone-pelting

Upset over Maharashtra minsters scheduling visits to Belagavi, the epicentre of a state border row, Karnataka Chief Minister Basaravaj Bommai said the BJP government won't hesitate to take "suitable action" against the ministers.

A minor student allegedly assaulted by others after he waved the traditional Kannada/Karnataka flag

Police have tightened security across Belagavi district, the epicentre of a decades-old border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra, as the case pertaining to it is coming up before the Supreme Court.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has strongly condemned a resolution moved in the assembly of neighbouring Maharashtra, resolving to protect the state's interests amid a border row between the two states where the BJP is in power.

Tension grew in the bordering areas recently, with political leaders on both sides attacking each other. Buses from both states were attacked and defaced with paint in Karnataka's Belagavi and Maharashtra's Pune by stone-throwing political cadres.

Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution on the border row with Maharashtra, resolving to protect the State's interests.

Activists of Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES), an organisation that has been raising the issue for over five decades, have planned massive protests ahead of the winter session of the Karnataka Assembly.

A security blanket has been thrown across the Belagavi city as the winter session of the Karnataka Legislature starts today.

The district administration has prohibited the entry of Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Dhairyasheel Mane to the Belagavi city to take part in an event organised by Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES) on Monday.

Karnataka will hold a symbolic session at its second assembly house in Belagavi tomorrow, amid the Centre's efforts to enforce law and order and establish peace in the disputed Maharashtra-Karnataka border area

Amid the raging border dispute with neighbouring Maharashtra and around five months to go for assembly elections in Karnataka, the winter session of the state legislature will begin at 'Suvarna Vidhana Soudha' in Belagavi on Monday.

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that nothing came out of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's meeting with the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka over the border dispute.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Thursday demanded that the Union government find out the "mastermind" behind the 'fake' Twitter accounts which allegedly fuelled tensions over the boundary dispute.

Vehicles from either side were targeted in Tuesday's escalation, with leaders from both states weighing in, and pro Kannada and Marathi activists being detained by police amid a tense atmosphere in the border district.

Trucks bearing Maharashtra number plates stopped by Kannada group, windshield of one truck is damaged in stone-pelting

Upset over Maharashtra minsters scheduling visits to Belagavi, the epicentre of a state border row, Karnataka Chief Minister Basaravaj Bommai said the BJP government won't hesitate to take "suitable action" against the ministers.

A minor student allegedly assaulted by others after he waved the traditional Kannada/Karnataka flag

Police have tightened security across Belagavi district, the epicentre of a decades-old border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra, as the case pertaining to it is coming up before the Supreme Court.