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Topic: Karnataka assembly

Karnataka Assembly passes hate speech bill, jail term up to 7 years for offenders

Home Minister G Parameshwara said the Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Prevention Bill is aimed to curb acts that promote enmity, hatred, and disharmony among individuals and communities.

Once BJP’s potent weapon against Congress, Yatnal turns on party that expelled him

Bijapur City MLA Basanagouda R. Patil (Yatnal) is a vocal critic of former chief minister Yediyurappa and his son, Vijayendra, incumbent president of Karnataka BJP.

Why did Shivakumar sing RSS anthem in Assembly? Karnataka Dy CM says it was part of oppo research

The Congress leader recited a few lines from RSS anthem in the assembly during a debate on the stampede at Chinnaswamy Stadium 4 June that killed 11 people. 

18 BJP MLAs suspended from Karnataka Assembly amid ruckus over honey trap row, minority quota bill

Ruckus erupted in the Assembly as BJP MLAs entered the Well of the House and also tore and threw papers at the Speaker UT Khader's chair.

Karnataka’s Congress govt, Oppn band together to fight a common enemy: honeytraps

Karnataka Home Minister Parameshwara while announcing a high-level probe, says in assembly that ‘if this (honeytrap) continues, it will adversely impact a lot of people’.

Karnataka assembly passes resolution opposing NEET, joins Tamil Nadu & West Bengal

Assembly also passes resolutions against 'One Nation, One Election' & delimitation based on 1st census after 2026, instead calling for 1971 census figures to be used.

FSL report confirms pro-Pak slogans raised in Bengaluru, state govt asks oppn to cooperate with probe

The Bengaluru Court had Tuesday sent three arrested in connection with the alleged pro-Pakistan slogan raised at Vidhana Soudha in Karnataka to three days police custody.

Yediyurappa confidant & Vokkaliga leader Ashoka named LoP as ex-CM regains full control of Karnataka BJP

Former deputy CM R. Ashoka's election comes week after Yediyurappa's son, B.Y. Vijayendra, was appointed BJP state unit chief. Post of opposition leader had lain vacant for 6 months.

Gowda scoreboard: Nikhil Kumaraswamy loses in grandpa Deve Gowda’s turf, dad & uncle win their constituencies

Nikhil lost to the Congress's H.A. Iqbal Hussain by 10,715 votes.. His previous poll outing — in 2019 Lok Sabha elections — had ended in defeat as well.

Siddaramaiah & Shivakumar are poster boys of corruption, says IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

As curtains fall on Karnataka campaign, the BJP leader talks about his party’s chances in Karnataka, corruption allegations against Bommai govt, and ‘The Kerala Story’.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.