Karnataka Assembly Scandal

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  "Shameful Cops Couldn't Trace Victim": Siddaramaiah Over Karnataka Sex Tape Scandal

  Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah on Sunday took a dig at state government and police department over the alleged CD case row in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ramesh Jarkiholi is accused of sexual harassment.

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  Uproar In Karnataka Assembly Over Ex-Minister's Sex Tape Scandal

  Finance bills were on Wednesday passed amid din in the Karnataka Assembly before it was adjourned sine die as the sex scandal allegedly involving BJP leader and former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi rocked the proceedings for the third consecutive day.

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  Ex-Karnataka Minister's Alleged Sex Tape Scandal Dominates Assembly

  The Congress in Karnataka continues to protest in the state Assembly over the issue involving a CD that has footage allegedly of former BJP minister Ramesh Jarkiholi and a woman. And Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa is tired of it.

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  "Captive CBI Rescued Reddy Brothers": Congress Sharpens Attack At PM Modi

  In one of its sharpest attack on BJP ahead of next month's Karnataka's assembly election, the Congress today put out documents that it said, showed how the federal probe agency CBI had shut down cases in the state's biggest iron-ore mining scandal that had cost BJP's BS Yeddyurappa the chief minister's chair back in 2011. Three mining baron brother...

• Karnataka polls: BJP seeks to beat the odds

  In 2008, Karnataka became the first southern state to be won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Five years later, the party is fighting against all odds to retain power in the state. The Congress, which has been on the backfoot in New Delhi, led a belligerent campaign against the state government; among corruption and scandals, it also alleged in...

• BJP's LK Advani accused of taking money from Karnataka's former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa

  BJP leader LK Advani had taken money from erstwhile Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to allow him to remain in office after corruption scandals involving him surfaced, Mr Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) alleged Monday. The BJP rubbished the allegations.

• Karnataka poll: Parties launch campaign, release manifestos

  With three weeks to go for the May 5 Karnataka assembly poll, the Congress on Saturday launched its poll campaign, the ruling BJP sought the voters' forgiveness for corruption scandals and two parties released their manifestos.

• Karnataka Porngate report: 1 MLA guilty; ban high-tech cellphones inside Assembly

  The probe panel that was investigating the Karnataka porn scandal has tabled its report and two of the three MLAs, CC Patil and J Krishna Palemar, have not been found guilty. However, the committee, set up by the Assembly, has found evidence to merit action against the third MLA - Lakshman S Savadi and has recommended action against him.

• Gujarat Porngate: BJP MLAs deny watching porn inside Assembly

  Bad news all around for Narendra Modi and the BJP. On a day that it lost a sure seat in a by-election in Gujarat, it also has another porngate on its hands, this time in the Modi-ruled state.

• Gujarat's porngate: BJP members allegedly viewed obscene photos on tablets in Assembly

  Bad news all around for Narendra Modi and the BJP. On a day that it lost a sure seat in a by-election in Gujarat, it also has another porngate on its hands, this time in the Modi-ruled state.

• Karnataka porn scandal: Action against only one of three former ministers, says committee

  Of the trio of former ministers accused of watching porn in the Karnataka Assembly, two have reason to exhale. A committee, set up by the Assembly, has found there is evidence to merit action against only one of them - Lakshman S Savadi.

• Justice Katju defends journalists who reported Karnataka Assembly porn scandal

  Defending journalists who reported the porn-gate scandal, Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju today wrote to the Karnataka Assembly Speaker urging him that proceedings initiated against media persons be dropped.

• More MLAs involved in Karnataka's porn scandal?

  'The Dirty Picture' of the Karnataka Assembly is only getting dirtier. The probe report on the porn scandal, in which three MLAs were captured on camera watching porn on a mobile mobile during assembly proceedings, is now getting delayed because the committee suspects that more than a dozen other Mlas watched pornography too.

• Karnataka porn scandal: MLAs appear before probe panel

  The three BJP MLAs who were caught watching porn in the Karnataka Assembly appeared before the members of the committee probing the scandal.

• Karnataka's porn scandal: MLAs suggest media share blame

  In Karnataka, seven MLAS are investigating the politics-and-porn scandal. Their committee's task is to investigate how and why three former ministers were watching porn on a cellphone while the Karnataka Assembly was in session earlier this month. But curiously, they also want the media to defend its role.