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State principal finance secretary K Ramakrishna Rao, who represented the state at the meeting, read out the speech of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao

Water has become the new gold. To meet Bengaluru’s water demands, the Karnataka government is planning to draw water from Linganamakki reservoir in Shivamogga. But experts say it is ill-conceived and doesn’t  serve  the purpose.

The Congress-JD(S) alliance partners called for a meeting to inform people about their achievements after the Karnataka government completed its one-year term. While Kumaraswamy said that farm loan waiver was one of their noted achievements, BJP quashed the chief minister's claims.

An official communique released on June 2 said that the Andhra Pradesh government is functioning from its capital Amaravati, and the official buildings allocated to it were lying vacant in Hyderabad.

As the monsoon has been delayed, Andhra Pradesh government’s endowment department is conducting Varuna Yagam, praying for rainfall

 

At a time when the state of Tamil Nadu is reeling under severe water crisis, the DMK has decided to stage a statewide protest demanding the government to take swift action in tackling the issue.
 

Kumaraswamy in a speech said that the BJP is trying to topple the government by offering money to JD(S)-Congress MLAs. Yeddyurappa hit back and asked Kumaraswamy to reveal the name of person offering them money.

Did Twitterati misunderstand Sumalatha's views on the Cauvery issue, or did the Karnataka MP really go back on her word? Here is what happened.

Karnataka high court has received a number of public interest litigations seeking CBI probe in the IMA scam. Meanwhile, the state government has justified its decision of directing the SIT by stating that CBI has many pending cases to be solved.

There seems to be no end to the troubles in the Karnataka coalition government as another Congressman has expressed unhappiness against his own party and former state chief minister Siddaramaiah. Hirekerur Congress leader and three-time MLA BC Patil claimed Siddaramaiah had promised to make him a minister after Lok Sabha poll result but that had not happened till now

 After a council meeting of the Academi, an autonomous body under the state department of cultural affairs, chairman Nemom Pushparaj said the Academy's executive and the council has unanimously decided not to review the jury’s decision to choose the cartoon for the award
 

After waiting for 60 days, the fishermen in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, have sought the government’s intervention in pricing their catch. This after not getting enough income despite their big catch.
 

The fisheries department also said that they would cancel the subsidised diesel to the fishermen, who ventured into the sea before the ban was lifted in Tamil Nadu.

Despite promising to reconsider the JSW land deal, the BJP has alleged that the Karnataka coalition government is being pressured to finalise the deal and that the saffron party wanted to make sure the deal is not signed
 

The ministry had launched an ambitious programme to geo-tag all waqf properties in the country in the last term, and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the progress was on a “war footing”. The minister announced this while chairing a meeting of the Central Waqf Council (CWC) in New Delhi