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Congress, BJP spar on Twitter Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA While most senior leaders of both the ruling BJP and Opposition Congress remained cautiously silent over six Ministers seeking a gag order on the media from court, the party units fought it out on Twitter on Saturday. “Why have ministers sought gag orders even before anything incriminating against them is revealed?” tweeted Karnataka Congress, arguing that it shows how the BJP had come to power on the back of several alleged murky dealings. “Now we understand why your own people called you Blackmail Janata Party,” sai...

Karnataka’s giant leaps backward Updated: Updated: It has squandered its precious political and administrative heritage Share Article It has squandered its precious political and administrative heritage My local bank has a framed picture of M. Visvesvaraya on its wall, a curious throwback to an era of optimistic belief that over time, Mysore, and later the enlarged State of Karnataka, would take its place among the most modernised and industrialised regions of India. Certainly, Visvesvaraya, as Chief Engineer and then Dewan and even in unofficial capacities, hoped that the State would ente...

Mysore/Mysuru: The grand plans of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to demolish and reconstruct Devaraja Market — more than 125 years old — in city may not be realised in the near future as the Karnataka High Court yesterday restrained the civic body from razing the heritage structure. The Court ordered the State Government and the MCC not to act on the implementation of the Dec.10, 2019 resolution of the Special Heritage Committee that had recommended demolishing and reconstructing of Devaraja Market.  A Division Bench of the Court comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice�...