HOUSE UNDER SUSPENDED ANIMATION President's rule in place
President Pratibha Patil signed the proclamation of Central rule in the State on Tuesday afternoon while also placing the Assembly under suspended animation. Theatre of the absurd The Congress never tried to re-establish the severed links with JD(S), says KPCC President Mallikarjuna Kharge. The party is pitching for dissolution of the Assembly followed by elections. People think that I will receive a drubbing in the elections... all they have to do is wait for six more months... If we don't return with a bigger strength you can stop recognising us, says Deve Gowda. He says he never tried to forge a joint venture with the Congress.
The JD(S) has bared itself before the nation with its president (Deve Gowda) exhibiting the worst kind of coalition behaviour before the nation, says the BJP. The party will now play the betrayal card.
I am fed up with the affairs of national parties, including my party. I am seriously thinking of starting a regional party, says H D Kumaraswamy. He is struggling hard to assuage the discontentment among the party MLAs, who are angry with his decision to withdraw support to the BJP.
Guidance values skyrocket
Just over four months ahead of the opening of the international airport in Devanahalli, the airport is spinning a land price boom.
IISc student ends life
This is the second case of suicide by an IISc student in less than six months.
Obscene e-mail lands City architect in soup
A 30-year old architect working in a telecom firm in Bangalore was arrested for allegedly sending a 22-year-old air hostess, with whom he had an extra-marital affair, an e-mail containing explicit pictures of her.
Fit as a fiddle... Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar balances a ball during a training session in New Delhi on Tuesday. Pakistan will play their first match in the three-Test series against India from Thursday. Reuters
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