Everybody loves a plum ministry
Jagadish Shettar has become Chief Minister and, with 34 ministers in the Cabinet, one out of every four BJP legislators is now a minister. Now, those ministers are fighting a pitched battle for plum p
Rains lash city, leave roads flooded
After weeks of wait, Bengaluru finally soaked in the monsoon shower on Friday evening with many parts of city receiving rain for over two hours.
The weekend crowd, however, had to contend with traffi
Woman charges dentist husband for forcing her to drink urine
Close on the heels of a Class V school girl being made to drink her urine as punishment for bedwetting in West Bengal, a woman here has accused her dentist husband of a similar charge and also sexuall
‘Shettar will lead BJP in '13 polls’
National general secretary of the BJP, H.N. Ananth Kumar has stated that new Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar will lead the party in the 2013 Assembly elections. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle soon a
The eclipse of Yeddyurappa?
Is the Yeddyurappa era in state politics coming to an end? Tied down by a series of land and illegal mining scams and a CBI probe hanging over his head, the former chief minister received a rude shoc
The rise of Shettar
Fifty six year-old Jagadish Shivappa Shettar was sworn in as Chief Minister — the third of the four year-old BJP government — on Thursday with the party setting a precedent of carving the posts of two
Disappointed MLAs target ex-CM, son
A last-minute alteration in the list of legislators chosen to join the cabinet of Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar triggered protests and commotion at Raj Bhavan and the Legislators’ Home (LH) on Thurs
State stares at worst drought in 4 decades
The first big test for new Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is coping with what is turning out to be Karnataka’s worst drought in the last four decades. With a rainfall deficit of around 40 per cent,
N. Karnataka’s lifeline Almatti goes bone dry
The effect of the prevailing drought across north Karnataka has been so severe this time that the Almatti dam, one of the biggest water storage facilities in the State, has turned bone dry. According
130 minor boys rounded up for consuming alcohol
In surprise raids on 101 bar and restaurants and 79 liquor stores in the city’s north division, police found nearly 130 minor boys consuming alcohol. They were brought to the respective police station