RSS chief raps MNS for fuelling language rowBANGALORE - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat Sunday criticised the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for fuelling a language row by insisting on speaking only in Marathi even in the legislature. Karnataka, its crisis, controversies and elections (Letter from Bangalore)Shankaranand, who headed Bofors probe panel, deadBANGALORE - Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist and long time Congressman B. Shankaranand, who headed the joint parliamentary probe into $1.3 billion Bofors gun scandal, died Thursday of cardiac arrest. He was 84. BJP will emerge stronger from internal crisis in Karnataka: Sushma SwarajBANGALORE - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader Sushma Swaraj has said her party will emerge stronger from the internal crisis in Karnataka. Central BJP leaders gag Karnataka’s warring groups, hum unity tuneBANGALORE - Rival factions in Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were Wednesday told by the party central leaders to stop airing their differences in the media, with the state party chief warning that indiscipline would not be tolerated in future. Yeddyurappa makes rival Shettar minister, key meet WednesdayBANGALORE - Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday inducted Jagadish Shettar, who has resigned as the assembly speaker, into his ministry, a day ahead of party legislators meet here to end continuing dissidence. Yeddyurappa makes political rival Shettar ministerBANGALORE - Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday inducted Jagadish Shettar, who has resigned as the assembly speaker, into his ministry as part of the deal to buy peace with dissidents seeking his removal. An amiable BJP leader who became an unlikely dissident heroBANGALORE - Karnataka Assembly Speaker Jagadish Shettar, a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in the state, Monday quit his post to return to active politics at a time the party’s first government in southern India is battling dissidence. |