Vikram Gopal

Quit due to Article 370 move, says IAS from Karnataka

Senthil, a 2009 batch IAS officer who belongs to Tamil Nadu, said in the interview that he had always been a keen observer of politics.

‘There is a clear fascist onslaught’, says Sasikanth Senthil who quit IAS

Sasikanth Senthil said he could not sit in the bureaucracy and continue to watch people become hyper nationalists who could not encourage intellectual debate .

JD(S) pips Congress in Vokkaliga outreach over DK Shivakumar’s arrest

Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy who visited Shivakumar’s mother’s house in Kodihalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, said there was o reason to arrest the Congress leader.

Ridiculous that police are pretending that the 377 judgment hasn’t come: Arvind Narrain

A year after the SC in a landmark judgment, read down IPC section 377, advocate Arvind Narrain, who was part of the legal challenge, tells Hindustan Times that the hard part of using the judgment to transform society still remains.

Karnataka IAS officer resigns, says continuing in job would be unethical

S Sasikanth Senthil, a 2009 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, is the second to announce his decision to exit the bureaucracy over the last month.

JD(S) MLA GT Devegowda speaks out at party, sparks speculation of switching parties

Devegowda would go on to do a giant-killing act by defeating former chief minister Siddaramaiah in the assembly elections last year, after the latter switched from his constituency of Varuna to contest from Chamundeshwari.

From the archives: ‘If Gauri Lankesh wrote in English’, says Kanhaiya Kumar on what may have saved her

Kumar was closely associated with Lankesh in the years preceding her death and she used to refer to him as her son.

Incessant rains lash Karnataka’s Kodagu; schools, colleges to remain closed

Kodagu received 48.8 mm rainfall in the 24 hours ending Wednesday, a 436% increase over the long-period average for the day.

DK Shivakumar: The journey of a Congress firefighter

Shivakumar, or DK or DKShi as he is known locally, has come a long way since he was promoted from the Youth Congress to the main Congress organisation four decades ago following a split in the party’s Karnataka chapter.

Gauri Lankesh’s second death anniversary : Investigation complete, trail set to begin

A senior police official said there were many things that the SIT achieved in its investigation that have marked a change, including the fact that it was able to file a charge sheet in the Kalburgi murder case.

The rise and rise in fortunes of DK Shivakumar, the man being probed by ED

The arrest of Shivakumar, known as the Congress’ troubleshooter, on Tuesday by the Enforcement Directorate in a case of alleged money laundering has brought to focus this rise as it held within it the elements that would also lead him to his present juncture.

DK Shivakumar: Congress troubleshooter with uneasy relationship with party

Both politically and financially, Shivakumar’s career has followed an upward trajectory since his first win in the Sathanur Assembly constituency in 1989. He has won all subsequent elections, shifting to the Kanakapura seat in 2008 after his former constituency ceased to exist as the result of a delimitation exercise.

A moonwalk on Bengaluru’s crater-filled streets

As a canvas, Bengaluru’s pothole ridden roads have served Nanjundswamy, an alumnus of Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, well. There’s the famous crocodile that sat in a pothole in 2015. The same year there was the painting of Yamraj (The Indian god of death) around an open manhole.

Launched amid fanfare, South India’s subsidized canteens remain neglected

Modelled on the Amma Canteen launched by former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, there are 191 canteens across Bengaluru that provide breakfast at ₹5 and lunch and dinner at ₹10 and have proved very popular among city residents, with an estimated 15 crore meals having been served over the past two years, according to the BBMP.

BJP winning Karnataka Milk Federation poll a setback to Deve Gowda’s JD(S)

Karnataka Milk Federation has for long been dominated by the Janata Parivar. In 35 years of its existence, the milk cooperative has had a Janata Parivar chairman for 19 years, including a term by former chief minister Siddaramaiah in 1984.

BJP said they would harass me, let them enjoy: Shivakumar on ED summons

The ED move comes after the Karnataka High Court had on Thursday dismissed Shivakumar’s petition challenging the summons issued to him in a money-laundering case.

Karnataka BJP pushes for beef ban, minister says will introduce bill soon

Since, BS Yediyurappa became chief minister on July 26, leaders in the state party have been clamouring for reintroduction of the Bill. These calls appear to have been answered as confirmed by state minister CT Ravi.

Karnataka Cong MLAs worked against me, should be expelled: KH Muniyappa

KH Muniyappa, the seven-time MP from Kolar and veteran Congress leader, which is reserved for candidates from Scheduled Caste communities, was unsuccessful in the Lok Sabha elections in May for the first time since 1991.

Congress’s new dilemma in Karnataka, leaders press for change in state unit

The Congress high command is yet to take a call on the vacant Leader of the Opposition post in the Assembly, and the party’s Karnataka unit president Dinesh Gundu Rao’s tenure is set to end in a year.

‘Even a rival like me pities Yediyurappa’, says Siddaramaiah after portfolio allocation in Karnataka

Seniors members of BJP were angry because CN Ashwath Narayan, a first time minister, and Laxman Savadi, who is not a member of either house of the legislature, were made deputy chief ministers, overlooking several experienced leaders.

K’taka to have 3 deputy CMs as BSY allocates portfolios

HAL union threatens strike after wage hike talks with management fails

Employees are “disappointed and dejected” with offers made by the management, said Suryadev Chandrashekhar, general secretary of the committee.

Karnataka gets 3 dy chief ministers, triggers heartburn in Yediyurappa camp

The allocation of portfolio for the 17 ministers inducted into the cabinet last week had taken over a week and two trips by chief minister BS Yediyurappa to New Delhi to materialise.

JD(S), Congress bigwigs trade shot over alliance govt’s fall

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returned to power in Karnataka after the coalition lost a trust vote in July after 17 of its lawmakers submitted their resignations.

Worried about future, Karnataka rebel MLAs seek assurance from Yediyurappa

Ten of the 17 rebels whose resignation and subsequent disqualification led to the collapse of the Congress-JD (S) coalition government reached Delhi on Thursday, hours before Yediyurappa landed in the capital, worried that their case, challenging the disqualification, had not come up for hearing in the Supreme Court.

Deve Gowda targets Siddaramaiah over collapse of Congress-JD (S) coalition

The animosity between the two had appeared to have been dealt with while the two parties were in power, although there were signs of simmering anger on both sides. This came out into the open as Deve Gowda turned up the pressure over the past two days, blaming the former chief minister for the collapse of the coalition.

Day after, disquiet continues among excluded Karnataka MLAs

Katti said he has been a minister in previous Janata Dal and BJP governments. “I am clueless about my exclusion and obviously it has come as a bitter surprise, even though I am not really one to run behind these positions,” he said.

Karnataka cabinet: ‘Even Yediyurappa doesn’t know why I was excluded’, says BJP MLA

Umesh Katti, who has been an MLA eight consecutive times since 1985 had expressed surprise at his exclusion from the Cabinet.

In surprise move, BJP picks Nalin Kateel as Karnataka unit president

Nalin Kumar Kateel is a three-time member of Parliament from the coastal Dakshina Kannada and is known as a fire-brand Hindutva leader with a penchant for making controversial statements. He is announced as the Karnataka unit president of BJP.

‘Heart-stopping’ move as Chandrayaan-2 enters moon orbit

Tuesday’s “heart-stopping” move was described as a “major milestone” by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairperson K Sivan.