The big question is whether the regulators will have the courage to prosecute the bigwigs in the cities.
Varsha Nair and Vivek Wagh are painting India on whatever canvas is possible.
A coronavirus positive woman allegedly managed to give the slip to authorities in New Delhi after her arrival from London and reached Andhra Pradesh by train only to be picked up by authorities and admitted to a hospital.
Baig, the MLA from Shivajinagar, was suspended from the Congress for his alleged anti-party activities as he had rebelled against the party leaders.
Fadnavis also dismissed Hegde's claim as 'absolutely wrong' and said nothing of that sort happened.
He asked if the prime minister's convoy was blocked would anyone accept it.
Yeddyurappa will await with bated breath to see the special court's verdict on the cases filed against him in connection with the land scam. Two advocates had filed complaints before the special court after Karnataka Governor H R Bharadwaj had accorded them the sanction to prosecute the CM.
22 bodies, 13 from Kottayam district and 9 from Idukki were recovered from various rain-hit areas while National Disaster Response Force teams continued their rescue operations.
A specially-constituted team of the Central Bureau of Investigation will commence it probe as per the Supreme Court directive against former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa next week.
Siddaramaiah announces free LGP gas, universal health scheme in budget
Students who have received admission to foreign universities are struggling with unexpected delays, additional living costs and scarcity of vaccine supplies.
Prohibitory orders were imposed in Delhi and parts of Karnataka. Police kept tight vigil in Kerala. In Gujarat, 50 people were arrested for Thursday's violence.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and Housing Minister V Somanna on Wednesday appeared before a Lokayukta court in a case relating to alleged irregularities in denotification of land.
The Lokayukta court on Tuesday issued summons to former Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, his wife and another person on a complaint alleging illegal construction on government land and allotment of site to them under discretionary quota when they already possessed land.
Last year, Nikhil Kamath and his brother Nithin jettisoned into a club of the country's 100 wealthiest with their net worth pegged at around Rs 24,000 crore
'Deep down, it betrays a transactional view of politics. That, to get, the voter must give,' argues Krishna Prasad.
In a setback to BS Yeddyurappa, the Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe against him for nepotism, illegal land acquisition and favouring top mining companies. BJP insiders say that the order is expected to put the rebellious former Karnataka CM on the back foot. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The stand-off between Karnataka government and Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde over the legality of ordering a judicial probe into land scams showed no sign of abating with the Ombudsman questioning the former's contention.
Justice V Gopala Gowda's name has been considered positively by the Trinamul Congress as well as the Left.
Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda and his immediate predecessor B S Yeddyurrappa landed in the city and held talks with the Bharatiya Janata Party National President Nitin Gadkari at his residence in Nagpur.
In a set back to former Chief Minister of Karnataka, B S Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka high court on Monday rejected his petition seeking anticipatory bail.
The Padma Vibhushan for this year has been awarded to a total of seven prominent personalities, while 16 have been given the Padma Bhushan, 118 have been given the Padma Shri on the 71st Republic Day this year, they said.
Most of these road contracts are spread across Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, with the government struggling to restart them.
Newly-appointed Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar got some relief on Monday when the Lokayukta court rejected a complaint against him alleging illegal denotification of government land.
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who was arrested in connection with a land scam case on Saturday and promptly hospitalised due to "chest pain", was finally discharged on Wednesday.
It has been alleged that Yeddyurappa in his capacity as chief minister had violated several rules as a result of which there were irregularities in land dealings, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Rahul's ascendancy to captaincy was expected after Ravichandran Ashwin was traded to Delhi Capitals last month.
The former Union minister also slammed Shashi Tharoor for his statement that praising the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for doing the right things would lend credibility to the opposition's criticism of him.
The killing of Karnataka official S P Mahantesh, said to be a whistle-blower in controversial land allotments by societies, was raised in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday by a CPI-M member who suspected its linkages with the controversial Tatra Truck purchases in the defence ministry.
Defending the allotment of land to a firm in which his two sons are partners, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Monday denied committing acts of 'nepotism or favouritism' and ruled out stepping down from his post.Under attack from the Opposition, Yeddyurappa said he was ready to order a judicial probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into denotification and allotment of lands and sites in the last ten years if the Opposition agreed.
Karnataka and Gujarat have bagged the Computer Society of India-Nihilent awards for best e-governance, while Andhra Pradesh got the award for best e-governance project in the country.
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's fate hinges on the decision of a special court in Bengaluru, which will hear a case pertaining to charges that the chief minister is involved in a land scam worth Rs 189.71 crore. This amount is divided into 15 different cases which will be heard by the court on Monday.
Among all the geographies where Amazon is fighting regulators, India is the only place where its lines are also tangled in a major corporate battle, this one with India's largest company by market capitalisation over the acquisition of Mumbai-based Future Group's retail chain, the country's second largest. No other corporate entity in any country offers a challenge to Amazon's hegemony in a way Reliance Industries does - and the final hearing of an arbitration case filed at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre between the two may decide at least some of these issues. This legal battle between one of the world's most powerful corporations and one of India's most powerful conglomerates could be complicated by a host of other developments.
Apprehending his arrest, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday filed applications in the high court, seeking bail in two cases pertaining to alleged irregularities in land denotification and an irrigation scheme. He moved his bail plea on a private complaint filed against him before Lokayukta court, alleging irregularities in denotification of land acquired by the Bangalore Development Authority.
More than 30 vaccine candidates have been supported and they are in different stages of development. Three candidates are in advanced stage of Phase I, II and III trials, and more than four are in advanced pre-clinical development stage, Choubey said.
From carrying portraits of their sons and husbands who have committed suicide due to agrarian distress to picketing to doing sewa 24x7 at langars, women have shown a rare determination not to capitulate before the government.
The confidence motion moved by Kumaraswamy was defeated with 99 members voting for the motion and 105 against it in a House of 225 including speaker P R Ramesh Kumar and a nominated member.
Such investments come with their own share of risks and buyers may need to hold on for at least 5 to 10 years.
Kumaraswamy had proved right the adage that politics is the art of the possible, but the science graduate failed to get his chemistry right in keeping the coalition legislators together to ensure his government's longevity.
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa left for Delhi on Sunday for further consultations with the Bharatiya Janata Party central leadership in the wake of Governor H R Bhardwaj sanctioning his prosecution over alleged land scams.
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