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Friday, September 5, 2025
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Topic: JDS-Congress

How ‘constitutional silences’ saved the day for 17 disqualified Karnataka MLAs

Supreme Court has upheld Congress & JD(S) MLAs’ disqualification, but said Speaker doesn’t have power to prevent them from contesting elections.

Disqualified Karnataka MLAs find a new tool to woo voters — new districts

In the last few months, demands to carve out 9 districts have been made by politicians & disqualified MLAs, saying it would result in better administration.

Deve Gowda predicts mid-term polls, then makes a U-turn. But message to Congress is clear

Deve Gowda first said he wasn’t sure how long Karnataka's JD(S)-Congress coalition would last, before ‘clarifying’ that by mid-term elections he meant local body polls.

With gathbandhan politics in turmoil, is the ‘vote transfer’ theory a myth?

Mayawati Tuesday hinted the BSP will contest assembly bypolls in UP alone, after blaming SP's Akhilesh Yadav for the alliance’s drubbing in 2019 elections.

2 independent MLAs withdraw support from Kumaraswamy govt in Karnataka

In a letter to governor Vajubhai Vala, the two MLAs said they were withdrawing their support for the Congress-JDS coalition in Karnataka with immediate effect.

Dinesh Gundu Rao: The accidental politician holding together Karnataka’s shaky alliance

Dinesh Gundu Rao, the Karnataka Congress chief, was once an engineer looking to go abroad before his father’s death brought him to public life.

On Camera

Vijay is winning nickname war in Tamil Nadu. He’s attacking Brand Stalin with ‘uncle’ taunt

If Stalin ignores the taunt, it spreads unchecked. If he responds, he legitimises Vijay. Either way, the Tamil Nadu politics binary bends.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Trump to sign executive order to rebrand Pentagon, reviving historic ‘Department of War’ name

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defence the ‘Department of War’, in...

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.