Bangalore: To get back ruling into benches from the opposition, as decided in a Bidadi convention of Party men recently by KPCC, the state congress has saddled four of its MPS who are well-Known Union ministers, with the responsibility of working for the party, to reclaim lost grounds, from BJP in Karnataka. External affairs minister [...]

Bangalore: Yes, the state Government has lost Rs4,000 crores in royalty fees by the CMs from Congress(S.M. Krishna and N. Dharam Singh), JD-S (Kumaraswamy) and BJP (B.S. Yeddyurappa) in a decade. In Bellary District, even after the Supreme Court put a ban on illegal mining, the railways have lost crores of rupees and 1.5 lakhs [...]

Bangalore: In 1932, late S. Bangarappa was born in Kubatoor village of Soraba Taluk as the son of Kallappa and Kallamma. He entered politics as a lawyer, through Shantaveri Gopala Gowda, along with SM Krishna, in Samajwadi (socialist) party, and becme an orator who could pull crowds to his meetings and speeches. R.M. Lohia was [...]

Something else that has been considered is the belief that the 2012 end of the world will come to Earth not through some planetary force outside of our galaxy, but through the power of our own sun. Some who have studied the timing of the 2012 prophesy and combined this knowledge with an understanding of [...]

New Delhi: Black Money is like a deadly Black Cobra, say Kaliya on whose head Lord Krishna danced in a pond made by Yamuna river(near Brindavan) which he defiled by his poison. The black money vendors of Indian Origin should be treated like black snakes in a Zoo, if no one can dance on their [...]

New Delhi: When the reporters enquired if Lal Krishna Advani was a Candidate for next Prime Ministership in a press meet, Sushma Swaraj(Lok Sabha) and Arun Jaitly (Rajya Sabha)Leaders of opposition BJP replied “No Comments”. The BJP parliamentary Samithi had given consent to Advani to go ahead with his proposed Chariot Journey (Ratha Yatra) to [...]

That the political philosophy of Anna Hazare closely resonates with the overall anti-democratic Hindutva ethos owes, in part, to the Brahminical worldview that they share, says Yogi Sikand Much to almost everyone else’s relief, Anna Hazare has finally called off his fast. However, he has now announced that his struggle for the Jan Lokpal was [...]

Mumbai : The interrogation of former president of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India  Syed Salahuddin Salar has confirmed that a major part of the terror financing for subversive activities in India come from Saudi Arabia. Salar, who is lodged in a Hyderabad jail for his alleged role in the Dilsukhnagar Sri Saibaba temple [...]

Bangalore : It is unlikely that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thought its scam-tainted former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will quietly walk away into the sunset after losing his post. The very fact that his successor, Sadananda Gowda, has had to insist that he is not Yeddyurappa’s puppet is evidence enough of the strength [...]

Geneva/New Delhi: you work for hard money for 10 hours a day, but it evaporates into rolls of printed paper, not worth its weight in gold and silver. Then you transfer it to Swiss banks, Bermuda, Mauritius, St.Kitt’s, Liechtenstein, or Timbuktu. Are you happy now? You have evaded a national Govt., its Tax department, and [...]