At the 102nd birth anniversary celebrations of former chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah at the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Wednesday, incumbent CM B.S. Yediyurappa leans on an aide to slip …
It doesn’t hurt to pray, goes the old saying, more so if you are the bruised and battered leader of God’s Own Party. Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa, who, like …
At the inauguration of the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Krishnadevaraya in Hampi on Wednesday, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa respectfully admires the crown adorning Union finance home minister …
KIRAN RAO BATNI writes: It’s a pity our friends in the English media have become such baavi kappegal* that they assume that the English medium CBSE education system is equivalent …
The new BJP president Nitin Gadkari apparently has a penchant for using tapori idiom like chatoogiri (sycophancy). Clearly, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa didn’t catch Gadkari saying so when he …
After battling dissidence and other problems for the better part of 2009, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa has decided to take on 2010 head-onIn Delhi this week to attend the …
Justices J.M. Panchal and Deepak Sharma of the Supreme Court ruling that courts can have faith on the word of “any girl or woman” in the country who seeks justice …
The Andhra Pradesh governor, Narain Dutt Tiwari, has been “ejected prematurely” from his post, in the imaginative words of one headline writer, after a TV station aired a sting operation …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: It is now clear as crystal. Either the chief minister of Karnataka, B.S. Yediyurappa, is mortally afraid of annoying the Reddy brothers, lest it …
Depending on who you would like to believe, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is either a noble, benign, cultural organisation of volunteers, straining every sinew to strengthen the moral and …
Astrologer Veenu Sandal on what the stars foretell for Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa in M.J. Akbar‘s fortnightly magazine, Covert: “His stars indicate that his long experience of more than …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Luck, more than anything, has played a major role in the ascendancy of Jagadish Shettar, who has resigned from the post of speaker of …
In The Telegraph, Calcutta, Radhika Ramaseshan invokes a line from Mughal-e-Azam to explain the Karnataka conundrum: “Anarkali” is ready to leave but the dissidents are still asking for “Salim’s” head. …
M.K. VIDYARANYA writes from Bangalore: Is the Congress begining to fish in the troubled waters of the BJP, and is the Grand Old Party inclined to share power with the …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: If Karnataka Chief Minister, B.S. Yediyurappa, finds himself in the vortex of an ugly political row triggered off by the challenge to his leadership …
Cartoon: courtesy Surendra/ The Hindu
Barely six months after bouncing off the runway, the BJP government of B.S. Yediyurappa has run into an air pocket once again, thanks to the peevish shenanigans of the Reddy …
On a day when seven BJP ministers were enconsced in yet another “secret meeting” in Bangalore, setting off the usual suspicions, chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa was going around inspecting “developmental …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: It is three weeks since the pilgrim township of Mantralaya, the abode of Saint Raghvendraswamy Swamy on the Andhra-Karnataka border, suffered extensive devastation due …
On the day his party was tasting defeat in three States, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa sips tea the old-fashioned (down market?) way in the company of the (more suave?) …
B.S. NAGARAJ writes from New Delhi: Cricket’s ultra-pyjama version, Champions League T20 tournament, got off to a glitzy start on Thursday. Chaka Khan, Shaggy and Jameila, and not to forget …
One small step for the aam appa in Karnataka is one giant leap for chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa as he visits flood-affected Hirehalla near Koppal on Monday, as Koppal MLA …
P. Mahamud, the hard-hitting cartoonist of the Kannada daily Praja Vani, captures the week’s biggest events—the “prabhugalu” going through their yoga callisthenics in Suttur, and the “prajegalu” going through hell …
In the run-up to the general elections, the “former future prime minister of India” pumped iron to the pop of the photo bulbs. At the chintan baithak of BJP ministers …
It’s one thing for travel writers dipping into their thesauruses to blindly term Mysore “a sleepy town” or “a pensioner’s paradise”. But what when the government officially believes that all …