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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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

Despite the arrest of former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and several ministers in his cabinet after allegations of illegally 'denotifying' land in Bangalore, a sting operation by NDTV reveals the land scam, known to be the biggest in the country, is only getting bigger and murkier. Corrupt government officers are believed to be involved...

A first-of-its-kind Agriculture Budget was tabled in the Karnataka Assembly on Thursday by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who proposed to provide crop loans at a 1 per cent interest rate and earmarked Rs 17,857 crore for agriculture, allied and irrigation sector development. He said the rate of interest on crop loans of up to Rs 3 lakh fro...

Former Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde today said he does not believe the Government will implement his report on illegal mining as "many skeletons will fall off (its) cupboard".The former ombudsman urged for an independent panel to probe the Lokayukta report further and implement it."Do you think the Government will ever implement the report?"...

BS Yeddyurappa may have lost the chair, but he has had his way. His man, Sadananda Gowda, will be Karnataka's new Chief Minister.

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...

The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a verdict that granted new legitimacy to those within the BJP who have been demanding that a new Chief Minister be appointed to replace Mr Yeddyurappa. In October last year, Mr Yeddyurappa had to prove his government had not been reduced to a minority. The BJP was besieged by internal dissent and a group of MLA...

After repeated attacks from the Opposition, the Karnataka Assembly has been adjourned till Tuesday.The Opposition created a ruckus in the well of the house and leader Siddaramaiah asked for an Adjournment Motion to be passed. However, Law Minister Suresh Kumar raised a point of order that an adjournment order could not be allowed at this stage. The...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

Despite the arrest of former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and several ministers in his cabinet after allegations of illegally 'denotifying' land in Bangalore, a sting operation by NDTV reveals the land scam, known to be the biggest in the country, is only getting bigger and murkier. Corrupt government officers are believed to be involved...

A first-of-its-kind Agriculture Budget was tabled in the Karnataka Assembly on Thursday by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who proposed to provide crop loans at a 1 per cent interest rate and earmarked Rs 17,857 crore for agriculture, allied and irrigation sector development. He said the rate of interest on crop loans of up to Rs 3 lakh fro...

Former Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde today said he does not believe the Government will implement his report on illegal mining as "many skeletons will fall off (its) cupboard".The former ombudsman urged for an independent panel to probe the Lokayukta report further and implement it."Do you think the Government will ever implement the report?"...

BS Yeddyurappa may have lost the chair, but he has had his way. His man, Sadananda Gowda, will be Karnataka's new Chief Minister.

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...

The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a verdict that granted new legitimacy to those within the BJP who have been demanding that a new Chief Minister be appointed to replace Mr Yeddyurappa. In October last year, Mr Yeddyurappa had to prove his government had not been reduced to a minority. The BJP was besieged by internal dissent and a group of MLA...

After repeated attacks from the Opposition, the Karnataka Assembly has been adjourned till Tuesday.The Opposition created a ruckus in the well of the house and leader Siddaramaiah asked for an Adjournment Motion to be passed. However, Law Minister Suresh Kumar raised a point of order that an adjournment order could not be allowed at this stage. The...

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 ...