Chikkaballapur  

Hoskote Congress MLA MTB Nagaraj announced that he would withdraw his resignation on Sunday (July 13). But within moments, did a volte-face as he said his resignation would depend on the resignation choice of Sudhakar, his close friend and Congress MLA from Chikkaballapur, Karnataka.
 

Veteran Congress leader, former chief minister of Karnataka, Veerappa Moily slammed chief minister Kumaraswamy for taking on a village stay tour

Pro-Kannada organisations and lake activists warned Tamil Nadu for asking the treated sewage water of KC Valley project that is being used to fill parched lakes of Kolar and Chikkaballapura districts

Home minister MB Patil and Sudhakar, the Congress MLA from Chikkaballapura have expressed their desire to see Siddaramaiah as the chief minister. On the other hand, Siddaramaiah loyalists in the party have advised him to go for fresh elections in the event of a probable coalition collapse

The names of seven JD(S) workers who travelled to Colombo are Puttaraju and Maregowda (missing), and M Rangappa, KG Hanumantharayappa, Ramesh, Laxmi Narayan and Shivakumar, who are confirmed dead.

 

With JD(S) reluctant on settling for 10 seats and keeping its focus on southern Karnataka, sitting MPs Veerappa Moily and KH Muniyappa seem worried as the party may give these seats to the JD(S). While Moily represents Chikkaballapura Lok Sabha seat, Muniyappa is a Kolar MP.

On Friday, one person died, and six were hospitalised after consuming prasad prepared for puja at the Ganga Bhavani temple in Chintamani in Chikkaballapur district in Karnataka.

The victim as well as those who fell ill are from the same family. They were offered the prasad at a temple in Kolar district, Karnataka

An elderly couple lost their lives when they tried to overtake a vehicle and instead rammed the police van that was escorting the vehicle in which Pejawara seer was travelling.  

A youngster was caught by the cops while riding without a helmet. He was carrying a bloodied knife after having stabbed his friend.

Veerappa Moily and HD Kumaraswamy criticised each other during 2014 election as HD Kumaraswamy contested against him in Chikkaballapur then. In 2019, will JDS negotiate with its allied partner Congress and demand Moily's seat?

 A day after Kolar dairy farmers condemned and burned the effigy of Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy's brother HD Revanna, on Monday, farmers from Chikkaballapura hurled slippers and later burnt the effigy of Revanna. The farmers had gathered before Chikkanallapur Milk Federation office. It is said Revanna is all set to transfer the annual supply of about 30 lakh litres of tetra milk pack to his home district Hassan.