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  When Karnataka BJP Jumped The Gun With BS Yeddyurappa Swearing-In Tweet

  At 8.31 pm on Wednesday, a tweet put out by the official handle of the Karnataka BJP said the party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa would be sworn in on Thursday. The post also had a time --- 9.30 am. Except, there had been no official communication from the Raj Bhawan by then.

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  BJP's Yeddyurappa To Take Oath, Has 15 Days To Prove Majority

  BJP's BS Yeddyurappa will take oath as Karnataka Chief Minister at 9 am today after his party was invited to form government, and given 15 days to prove majority by the governor on Wednesday evening. The Congress, to ensure that does not happen, approached the Supreme Court late at night and asked for the swearing-in to be stopped. Three judges of ...

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  "I Made Mistake, But...": On Gaffe, Amit Shah's Sharp Comeback For Congress

  BJP president Amit Shah today spoke for the first time on his much-talked about slip in Karnataka, which embarrassed his party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa, and turned it around to take aim at the Congress.

• Karnataka election results: Congress to form govt in Karnataka, BJP loses its only southern state

  Karnataka has delivered an unambiguous verdict. The Congress will form the next government and will not need help. The party won 121 seats, which will give it a majority in the 224-seat Assembly.

• Despite a dozen resignations, Karnataka chief minister says govt is stable

  Despite a barrage of resignations, Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar says he's confident that the state's BJP government is not about to implode.

• No intention to topple Karnataka's BJP govt, says BS Yeddyurappa

  Days after 13 of his loyalist legislators in BJP announced their resignations, pushing the government into a crisis, Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) chief BS Yeddyurappa today said he has no intention to topple the Shettar govt.

• BS Yeddyurappa's party vows to topple BJP Govt in Karnataka

  Eager to stall presentation of an election budget by the Jagadish Shettar Ministry, Karnataka Janatha Party (KJP) of BS Yeddyurappa is holding its executive committee meeting in Bangalore tomorrow to finalise 'an action plan' to bring down the first BJP government in the south.

• Ensure safety of students from North-East: PM to Karnataka govt

  The Prime Minister and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde have phoned the Chief Minister of Karnataka, asking him to ensure the safety of thousands of students from the north east. Jagadish Shettar, who heads the BJP government in Karnataka, has said students are not at risk.

• High Court pulls up Karnataka govt for delay in Lokayukta appointment

  Pulling up the BJP government for "inordinate delay" in appointing the Lokayukta, Karnataka High Court today warned it would write to the Governor that there is a Constitutional crisis if it failed to respond positively.

• Karnataka govt to return Hegde's illegal mining report to Lokayukta

  The BJP government in Karnataka has decided to send back the Santosh Hegde report on illegal mining to the state Lokayukta, seeking clarifications.

• BJP gets tough with Yeddyurappa, says ready to sacrifice govt if necessary

  Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has confirmed that he will "resign on Sunday afternoon". The beleaguered chief minister made the announcement in a press release, thus confirming earlier reports that he would quit by 1 pm tomorrow.   In a message sent earlier to top leaders of the BJP, Mr Yeddyurappa, who has been indicted in Lokay...

• Karnataka church attack: A harsher report

  The police, the state government, the BJP and the Sangh Parivar were absolved of all blame by a recent report on the attacks on churches in 2008 in Karnataka.But another report, by a former judge of the Karnataka High Court, concludes the opposite.Justice MF Saldanha conducted an independent inquiry and says the state police was involved in the att...

• Karnataka church attacks: Government gets clean chit

  Finally, some good news for the beleaguered BJP government in Karnataka. A commission set up to investigate a series of attacks on churches in 2008 has said neither the government nor the police can be faulted. The report submitted by the one-man commission states: "There is no basis to the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians...

• 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 ...

• Gadkari, Jaitley to meet BJP MLAs in Karnataka today

  BJP President Nitin Gadkari, along with senior party leaders Arun Jaitley and Dharmendra Pradhan, will visit Karnataka today to meet BJP MLAs in the state where the party's government has been hit by charges of nepotism against Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and dissidence against his leadership.Gadkari's visit to Karnataka was pre-scheduled and he...