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The Congress on Wednesday named former Minister TB Jayachandra, and Kusuma H - the wife of late IAS officer DK Ravi, as its candidates for the November 3 bypolls in Sira and Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly segments.

More than 21 lawmakers in Karnataka were in for a shock when they wrote to the state government asking for pending salary. They were told that their salaries will be stopped since they were getting paid twice --- the second paycheck was coming from state-government owned boards or corporations where they have been appointed as chairpersons.

Bengaluru-based government engineers Jayachandra and TN Chikkarayappa earned not more than Rs 10 lakh a year. Raids by taxmen on Thursday revealed the jaw-dropping extras they had acquired over time - a Lamborghini, Volvo, MV Agusta, Ducati 749, multiple luxury apartments, gold and Rs 5.7 crore in brand new 2000-rupee notes.

With GST already having become a law, Karnataka Cabinet today decided to call off the special session of the legislature to be convened on September 14 to ratify the Goods and Services Tax Constitution Amendment Bill.

Malls and high-rise buildings, including apartments, built illegally on storm water drains of the city would be demolished to prevent flooding after heavy rains, Karnataka Law Minister TB Jayachandra said on Wednesday.

It is more than three months since Justice Bhaskar Rao -- Karnataka Lokayukta whose son had been arrested for allegedly running an extortion racket from Lokayukta offices -- had stepped down. Since then, the anti-corruption body, which in the past had taken on anyone -- from former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to the powerful mining barons of Bell...

It hasn't been the best of times for the Bangalore Club, after the non-renewal of their liquor license, revenue authorities have now told the club management, that it does not have proper documents to prove ownership of their land. The Club has been asked to hand over the property documents to the revenue department.

The Karnataka government is sending over a bill of more than Rs. 5.11 crore to neighbour Tamil Nadu soon. That is what it has spent on conducting the trial of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and three others in a corruption case over the last 12 years.

Karnataka government would take a call "as early as possible" on "merits" on the issue of filing an appeal against acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case, State Law Minister TB Jayachandra said today.

A bill seeking to encourage public authorities to deliver services electronically or through post to the citizens and providing for disciplinary action against officials for failure to act in stipulated time was today passed by the Karnataka Assembly.

Call it "son stroke" or a generational shift in Karnataka politics; it is all evident in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.

Karnataka government intends to enact a legislation to crack down on superstition and black magic on the lines of the one in Maharashtra, Law Minister TB Jayachandra said today.

Karnataka government would set up ten fast-track courts to exclusively try crimes against women, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra said today.

Karnataka's Congress government's ambitious scheme to provide 30kg rice per month to poor families at Re 1 a kg is expected to take off by July 10 and not July 1 after being rescheduled from an earlier deadline of June 1.

Senior advocate and noted constitutional expert Ravivarma Kumar has been appointed the new Advocate General of Karnataka, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra announced today.

The Congress on Wednesday named former Minister TB Jayachandra, and Kusuma H - the wife of late IAS officer DK Ravi, as its candidates for the November 3 bypolls in Sira and Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly segments.

More than 21 lawmakers in Karnataka were in for a shock when they wrote to the state government asking for pending salary. They were told that their salaries will be stopped since they were getting paid twice --- the second paycheck was coming from state-government owned boards or corporations where they have been appointed as chairpersons.

Bengaluru-based government engineers Jayachandra and TN Chikkarayappa earned not more than Rs 10 lakh a year. Raids by taxmen on Thursday revealed the jaw-dropping extras they had acquired over time - a Lamborghini, Volvo, MV Agusta, Ducati 749, multiple luxury apartments, gold and Rs 5.7 crore in brand new 2000-rupee notes.

With GST already having become a law, Karnataka Cabinet today decided to call off the special session of the legislature to be convened on September 14 to ratify the Goods and Services Tax Constitution Amendment Bill.

Malls and high-rise buildings, including apartments, built illegally on storm water drains of the city would be demolished to prevent flooding after heavy rains, Karnataka Law Minister TB Jayachandra said on Wednesday.

It is more than three months since Justice Bhaskar Rao -- Karnataka Lokayukta whose son had been arrested for allegedly running an extortion racket from Lokayukta offices -- had stepped down. Since then, the anti-corruption body, which in the past had taken on anyone -- from former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to the powerful mining barons of Bell...

It hasn't been the best of times for the Bangalore Club, after the non-renewal of their liquor license, revenue authorities have now told the club management, that it does not have proper documents to prove ownership of their land. The Club has been asked to hand over the property documents to the revenue department.

The Karnataka government is sending over a bill of more than Rs. 5.11 crore to neighbour Tamil Nadu soon. That is what it has spent on conducting the trial of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and three others in a corruption case over the last 12 years.

Karnataka government would take a call "as early as possible" on "merits" on the issue of filing an appeal against acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case, State Law Minister TB Jayachandra said today.

A bill seeking to encourage public authorities to deliver services electronically or through post to the citizens and providing for disciplinary action against officials for failure to act in stipulated time was today passed by the Karnataka Assembly.

Call it "son stroke" or a generational shift in Karnataka politics; it is all evident in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.

Karnataka government intends to enact a legislation to crack down on superstition and black magic on the lines of the one in Maharashtra, Law Minister TB Jayachandra said today.

Karnataka government would set up ten fast-track courts to exclusively try crimes against women, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra said today.

Karnataka's Congress government's ambitious scheme to provide 30kg rice per month to poor families at Re 1 a kg is expected to take off by July 10 and not July 1 after being rescheduled from an earlier deadline of June 1.

Senior advocate and noted constitutional expert Ravivarma Kumar has been appointed the new Advocate General of Karnataka, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra announced today.