Hr Bharadwaj

• Karnataka Governor accepts resignation of two ministers; hints at asking Chief Minister to prove majority

  Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj has accepted the resignations of two ministers in the Jagadish Shettar government. The development comes barely hours after Mr Bhardwaj met Chief Minister Shettar to discuss the latest political crisis orchestrated by legislators loyal to BS Yeddyurappa. Mr Bharadwaj also met the 13 MLAs - including the two ministers,...

• Vijay Shankar appointed as new Karnataka Advocate General

  Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj has appointed S Vijay Shankar as the new Advocate General of the state.

• Yeddyurappa says he will meet Governor every 15 days

  Perhaps this is a sort of New Year's resolution to bury the hatchet.  Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa drove to Raj Bhavan in Bangalore on Friday morning to meet Governor HR Bhardwaj.  The BJP has repeatedly attacked Mr Bhardwaj for abandoning the basic  impartiality required of his office, and functioning as an agent of the C...

• Karnataka govt is blind on corruption: HR Bharadwaj

  The Governor-government tussle in Karnataka begins again. After the Bhartiya Janata Party leader alleged that Governor HR Bharadwaj was acting like the 'opposition leader', Bharadwaj has shot back by saying that "This government is blind on corruption... Centre is not asking me to do anything."Governor HR Bharadwaj had written two letters to Chief ...

• Karnataka: Governor-government tussle begins again

  The friction between Karnataka's Governor HR Bharadwaj and the BJP state government has surfaced once again with two letters written to the Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa by the Governor - asking for details on the land scam allegations - and the business dealing of the controversial Reddy brothers.This follows a representation from the Congress to ...