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Saturday, December 13, 2025
TopicBasavaraj Bommai

Topic: Basavaraj Bommai

Tension over hijab controversy remains but Karnataka colleges to reopen today after a week

School authorities ask Muslim teachers, students to remove hijabs outside gates, in public view, on Monday & Tuesday. Issue raised by Opposition in Karnataka assembly.

Bommai govt should have seen the hijab storm coming. Quick damage control needed now

For the highly sensitive area that Coastal Karnataka is, the police, state and the Union home ministry should have been extra vigilant.

After Reddy brothers, it’s Jarkiholis. But many Karnataka BJP leaders are upset by their rise

A recent meeting between miffed leaders has put BJP in a spot of bother, as the party that claims to reject dynasty politics braces for a cabinet reshuffle.

Cops deputed at Karnataka CM’s residence held for trying to ‘extort’ money from drug dealer

Head constable Shiva Kumar and constable Santosh Naukar were allegedly demanding money from drug peddlers in return for not booking cases them.

Time for temple freedom in India. Release them from HRCE Act, bring market economics

Karnataka CM Bommai said that he will introduce a Bill to 'free' temples from govt control. Hindu mutts is a good model.

Karnataka Police book Congress leaders for violating Covid norms, but Mekedatu padayatra still on

D.K. Shivakumar, Mallikarjun Kharge and Siddaramaiah among 31 booked for violating norms in Mekedatu padayatra, BJP MLA Renukacharya participates in fair, ‘regrets’ act.

Thumping victory for Congress in Karnataka local body polls, including in CM Bommai’s hometown

Polls were held in 58 urban local bodies across 20 districts. Of 1,184 wards in town and city municipal councils & town panchayats, Congress bagged 501 while ruling BJP won 433.

Karnataka CM Bommai vows to bring law to free temples from govt control, fulfil BJP poll promise

Karnataka CM says law to release temples from govt control will be introduced before budget session. Also promises special team to ‘enforce’ anti-conversion law once it’s cleared.

‘Posts, positions, life not permanent’: Bommai’s emotional speech bares Karnataka BJP infighting

Some say scam allegations, poor performance in polls have dented Bommai's image & it’s time for him to go. Those in govt say he got overwhelmed, deny possibility of leadership change.

NCP workers in Maharashtra protest against Karnataka CM Bommai amid tensions over Belagavi row

NCP workers also performed milk 'abhishek' on statues of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Maharashtra in protest against alleged desecration of his statue in Bengaluru.

On Camera

IndiGo chaos forces DGCA to look inward—spotlight is back on the regulator

The crisis also puts DGCA’s vacancies in the eye of the storm. Naidu told the Rajya Sabha in July this year that 190 out of 410 DGCA vacancies would be filled this year.

South rising, west slipping: India’s export map is being redrawn, shows RBI data

Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.