Khan while reacting to party's state president DK Shivakumar's attempt to consolidate the Vokkaliga community, had recently said that nobody can become the chief minister with support from just one community.
Maintaining that the situation is peaceful, police said stringent action would be taken against miscreants or vandals.
'There is no problem to the government. It will complete (its tenure). You get tensed due to reports in media. It is not like that. '
On January 29, Krishna resigned from all the posts held by him in the grand old party.
The only facesaver for the Gowda family was Deve Gowda's another grandson Prajwal Revanna, son of PWD minister H D Revanna, who won from Hassan seat.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister K S Eshwarappa on Saturday courted controversy when he asked a woman journalist what can the opposition members do if "someone drags and rapes" her.
"This court requests the students and the public to maintain peace and tranquility. This court has full faith in the wisdom and virtue of public at large and hopes that the same would be put to practice," the single bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit said.
The action came after investigations carried out by an inter-ministerial committee formed by the home ministry in 2020.
Protests rocked the Cauvery river basin district of Karnataka for the second day on Monday over release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu with police taking about 100 people into custody after they squatted on tracks and detained the Mysore-Shirdi express at Gejjalagere village.
In Mandya, the heartland of Cauvery, protesters took out a march with 28 sheep, depicting them as members of parliament, decrying their silence.
While addressing a political rally in Mandya in poll-bound Karnataka, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that he wanted more youth to join the party. Attacking the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhi said there was a time when Karnataka was considered a progressive state.
There have been speculations in some quarters in recent times about the possible change in leadership, considering Yediyurappa's age.
After Rahul's Bharat Jodo Yatra began criss-crossing the Hindi heartland, BJP leaders have revived their attacks on 'dynasty politics' and 'family rule' in the Congress, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
He had changed the spelling of his name from Yediyurappa to Yeddyurappa after he had to resign as chief minister in 2007.
'The results show that he is the best person to manage individuals in the party.'
Kannada actor and former MP Ramya has been selected to lead the party's social media outreach.
M D Riti pays tribute to Bangalore's homegrown business giant.
A day after Karnataka government stopped release of water to Tamil Nadu citing low storage in K R S reservoir, farmers said they would continue their dharna till the Cauvery River Authority review its earlier directive.
Deve Gowda indicated on Sunday that they were ready to compromise.
Protests against release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu snowballed in the river basin areas on Thursday, as a central team arrived in Bangalore to assess the water storage levels.
Daring the Bharatiya Janata Party to take action against the 13 members of Parliament who threw their lot with him and attended the formal launch of his Karnataka Janatha Party, former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said they would resign en masse if the situation so warranted.
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Former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief K S Sudarshan died in Raipur, Chhattisgarh on Saturday after suffering a heart attack.
Karnataka were well-placed with a 183-run first innings lead on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy match.
India on Friday said time was not conducive to grant visa to former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to visit the country.
The thumping victory for the Congress in the by-elections in Karnataka has renewed their hope of winning 25 seats in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
The opener scored 151 runs as Karnataka piled up 411 runs against Bengal.
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Actress turned politician Divya Spandana, popularly known as Ramya, turns 34.
For distressed farmers in Mandya district of Karnataka, Madhuchandan is a true saviour.
The pilot initiative will provide Rs 30,000 insurance cover for 250 people living with HIV in Karnataka's six districts of Bellary, Mangalore, Mandya, Kolar, Mysore and Udupi. The insurance cover entails the beneficiary Rs 15,000 assistance for hospitalisation and a similar sum to his family in the event of his death, Sanjay Rao Chaganti, programme director of Population Services International, an NGO behind the project, said.
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Kumaraswamy found himself in a raging controversy on Tuesday after a video of his telephonic instruction to "shoot mercilessly" those who had killed a Janata Dal-Secular worker in the party's stronghold of Mandya district on Monday went viral.
The current crisis Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is facing is a cumulative effect of inattention to water management and the fiscal burden of populist promises, says Aditi Phadnis.
In the second phase on April 18, 97 seats,spread across 13 states and one Union Territory, will go to the polls.
Rural retail seems to be keeping a lot of women in villages across the country on their toes.
This is the second time in a week that the Karnataka state capital is witnessing such severe waterlogging.
While in a statement issued earlier, the Railways had said that these trains will be fully non-air conditioned, on Wednesday it said that these will have both AC and non-AC classes and fully reserved coaches.
The Supreme Court and its committees, the two states and the central government must become objective and take the present and not just the past in mind.
'It must have stung Devendra Fadnavis to see Modi asking MPs at the BJP parliamentary party meeting to give Yediyurappa a standing ovation for his victory in the by-elections that has resulted in pulling the BJP government in Karnataka off the ventilator,' notes Aditi Phadnis.
