Power equations in Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa’s government are set to change after the cabinet expansion in the next few days.

BENGALURU: Power equations in Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa’s government are set to change after the cabinet expansion in the next few days. While newly-elected legislators are likely to get important portfolios, Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, seen as the high command’s blue-eyed boy, is unlikely to retain his current position in the pecking order.

Although he had lost the 2018 assembly elections, Savadi was appointed DCM, along with Govind Karjol and Dr CN Ashwath Narayan. While some saw it as an attempt to groom the Lingayat leader, it was also seen as a strategic move ahead of elections in Maharashtra, where he was in-charge of assembly segments in border districts. But the party did not do well in those constituencies. Now, the party is likely to make him MLC in place of Congress MLC Rizwan Arshad, who was elected MLA from Shivajinagar in the recent bypolls.

Sources said that Savadi’s equation within the government will change as he will be a DCM but as member of the council, while the two other DCMs will be members of the assembly. Equations in his home district Belagavi, too, are likely to change as three or four MLAs, including Umesh Katti, are likely to be inducted into the ministry. “The equations will change as Ramesh Jarkiholi and Umesh Katti, too, are influential leaders from the same district,” sources said. Savadi was keen to contest the bypolls from his home constituency Athani, but had to make way for Mahesh Kumathalli.

Ashwath Narayan, who is said to be keen on the coveted Bengaluru Development ministry, could be rewarded for his role in the KR Pete assembly elections, if his party so decides, and his position will automatically get a boost. Currently, he is seen as the BJP’s face in the state capital, where the party has done well in the bypolls.

However, political analyst MK Bhaskar Rao says that Savadi’s standing in the government will not change much, even if he is made MLC and continues as a DCM. “In fact, that will pose a new challenge for the chief minister, as House leaders in both the council and assembly will be from the same community. As DyCM, Savadi will have to be made leader in the council, in place of minister Kota Srinivas Pujari,” he added.

Bengaluru, Dec 10: In a major thrust to infrastructure development in Karnataka, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry on Tuesday gave the nod for 22 Green express highways in Karnataka worth Rs 1.5 lakh crore.

This includes a new alignment of the Pune-Bengaluru Express Highway, which will be completed in the next few years at a cost of Rs 50,000 crore.

Today we met Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.

We have just sanctioned projects worth more than Rs 1.5 lakh crore for the state.

Actually the annual infrastructure plan for Karnataka was Rs 2,150 crore, which we decided to increase to Rs 3,990 crore, Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways said.

He was speaking at the inaugural session of the 10th edition of Excon-2019, a five-day International Construction Equipment and Construction Technology Trade Fair here.

The event has been organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in association with the Karnataka government, Ministry for Road Transport and Highways and the National Highway Authority of India.

We are making 22 green express highways. Today we cleared the Pune-Bengaluru project as a Green Express Highway, a new alignment of 600 km, costing about Rs 50,000 crore.”

Gadkari said his ministry and the state have sanctioned 2,300 km of new roads where the Detailed Project Report is ready.

The bidding process would start soon, he said, adding that the Chief Minister had given an assurance on clearing any hassles related to land acquisition and environment clearance for these projects.

Another important infrastructure project of ring road in Bengaluru was also resolved in the meeting, with the Centre agreeing to the States request to bear 80 per cent of the land acquisition cost, he said.

However, the Ministry expected the state to exempt taxes on steel and cement to be used for building the ring road.

So today the problem with the ring road is resolved and today it will be a great present from the chief minister to the people of Karnataka, Gadkari said.

He opined that these highway projects would become the growth engine for Karnataka.

The BJP regained its hold on the state capital after more than a decade, with emphatic wins in three out of the four constituencies which went to bypolls.

BENGALURU: The BJP regained its hold on the state capital after more than a decade, with emphatic wins in three out of the four constituencies which went to bypolls.BJP romped home in KR Puram, Yeshwanthpura and Mahalakshmi Layout, the relatively new constituencies formed in 2008. Congress managed to win Shivajinagar seat.

Now the BJP tally from the city has gone up to 14 in the state assembly. Just a year back, Congress had 14 MLAs, JDS two and the BJP 11. The city has 27 assembly constituencies excluding RR Nagar where byelection was not held. Following the resignation of rebel MLAs and their subsequent disqualifications, BJP had won the recent mayoral elections in BBMP taking the civic body into its hold.

According to data provided by state Chief Electoral Office, the BJP vote share in the three assembly constituencies it won on Monday has gone up from 2.09 lakh in 2018 to 3.7 lakh. With Byrathi Basavaraju, ST Somashekar and Gopaliah being its candidate this time, the party managed a neat 1.61 lakh more voters than its nominees had polled more than a year ago.

Rizwan only face-saver for Cong in city
Bengaluru: Thirty-nine-year-old Rizwan Arshad who won from Shivajinagar assembly constituency is the only face-saver for the Congress in Bengaluru city.  The BJP did not induct Roshan Baig, who has been MLA three times from the constituency, into its fold and instead it fielded former councillor Saravana who came second best against Rizwan.  A senior Congress leader said the absence of Baig proved to be advantageous for Rizwan who is a complete ‘’outsider’’ to Shivajinagar.

Just minutes after winning 12 seats in the bypolls, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said that tackling the garbage problem in the city was his top priority.

BENGALURU: Just minutes after winning 12 seats in the bypolls, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said that tackling the garbage problem in the city was his top priority.BJP won three seats in Bengaluru in the bypolls — Yeshwanthpur, K R Puram and Mahalakshmi Layout. BJP lost its seat in Shivajinagar to Congress leader Rizwan Arshad.

BBMP Commissioner B H Anil Kumar said told TNIE that during the last meeting, they decided on what needs to be done. Following this, in a couple of days, tenders are going to be called to install GPS in all vehicles carrying garbage and they will be tracked on real-time basis round the clock. GPS is being fitted on auto tippers and compactors will be tracked till they reach the landfills. It will also track the time they leave the place. He said that the movement of vehicles will be tracked through the command centre.
Commissioner said the BBMP was also working on increasing the input till 1,500 metric tonnes at the bio-methanisation plants. The government has also directed to ensure that all bio-methanisation plants are operational and reduce the stress on landfill sites by having more waste to energy plants.

Randeep D, BBMP Special Commissioner, Solid Waste Management, said, “Government has also granted over Rs 900 crore for a duration of three years for handling solid waste management and the preparation of the tender document is also underway.”

Bharti Airtel emerged as the top gainer by surging 7.92 per cent after it announced to hike tariffs from December, followed by Reliance, Tata Motors, HUL, IndusInd Bank Axis Bank, Infosys and TCS.

MUMBAI: Market benchmark BSE Sensex appreciated by over 80 points in early trade on Monday despite headwinds in form of weak GDP numbers, sliding rupee and rising crude prices.

However, a rally in other asian stock markets supported the domestic market, dealers said.

The 30-share index was trading 81.65 points, or 0.20 per cent, higher at 40,875.46 in morning session.

Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty was quoting 25.35 points, or 0.21 per cent, up at 12,081.40.

Bharti Airtel emerged as the top gainer by surging 7.92 per cent after it announced to hike tariffs from December, followed by Reliance, Tata Motors, HUL, IndusInd Bank Axis Bank, Infosys and TCS.

On the other hand, TechM was fell most (2.55 per cent) in the Sensex pack, followed by ONGC, Bajaj Finance, PowerGrid, Tata Steen and Sun pharma.

On Friday, the BSE benchmark Sensex plummeted 336.36 points or 0.82 per cent to close at 40,793.81.

Likewise, the broader NSE Nifty also settled 95.10 points or 0.78 per cent down at 12,056.05.

India’s second-quarter GDP growth slowed sharply to 4.5 per cent, the weakest pace in more than six years, as manufacturing output hit a slump and consumer demand as well as private investment weakened.

Meanwhile, the rupee depreciated 4 paise against the US dollar to trade at 71.78 in early session.

Brent futures, the global oil benchmark, surged 1.22 per cent to USD 61.23 per barrel.

Foreign institutional investors offloaded shares worth Rs 1,892.29 crore in the capital market in the previous session, while domestic institutional investors bought equities worth Rs 953.62 crore, data available with stock exchange showed.

Asian markets rallied on Monday following report indicating strong Chinese factory activity that strengthened investors sentiment.

Bourses in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo surged on Monday after a report showed jump in Chinese factory activity.

On Saturday, China announced that its manufacturing sector expanded in November for the first time in

Parmesh jain

The CCB cops have busted an international drug racket in Bengaluru.The cops have arrested a drug peddler Atif Salim and his accomplices from his apartment in Suddaguntepalya in Bengaluru.
The accused has been identified as Atif Salim,and his associate,Rohit Das has been arrested. The accused had come to Bengaluru from kolkata to sell the drugs,The gang was operating through darknet.Darknet is a layer of the internet which can be accessed by using special softwares.Drugs was supplied through Chocolates and gums,they used to sell drugs after getting a Online orders.The CCB cops have seized drugs worth more than 1 Crore rupees from their possession. Bhaskar Rao,Bengaluru city police commissioner,said,City Crime Branch has made a very important headway in apprehending as well as impounding drugs of a different nature.
On the basis of credible information given to the city police by a parent of drug addict. Team headed by Joint CP,Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP Crime,Kuldeep R jain and team conducted surveillance and we were able to apprehend one person by name Atif Saleem his apartment was raided and lot of substances were recovered from there. These are all Chocolate,Cola,and strawberry laced drugs.We were able to recover lot of hookah bar materials,E-cigarettes,which is inserted in the Hookah bar and it is made of hash oil and these drugs which are been taken into custody from his house are all amphetamine are called meth drugs in international market.We have been able to get 2Kg,650 grams,each gram is sold for 5000-6000 rupees and it is consumed by those who are in Hi-End consumers not the poor poor consumers. These consumers come from Hi-End families,Hi-End schools,and from richest trata society,most often they are the victims,and people who are well to do,well healed and children from very very rich families are victims of this kind of drug abuse. So the city police has been successful in getting across this person and on the basis of
interrogation we will be able to get more amount of information who are more number of consumers,and where he has been receiving.What is of greater shock is that these drugs are being shipped by Amazon Courier,and we have got this amazon wrappers in which the drugs have come from Canada.The manufacturers of these drugs are those chocolate laced drugs has also given caution on his wrapper saying that this contain.
Probably it must be allowed in these countries,But definitely not in this country. So we are examining the role of these Courier companies how they can transport drugs across countries.Especially where the drugs are prohibited and the country has a no tolerance policy in drugs he added.




























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Manifesto released by National General Secretary Sri Zafrulla Khan, MLC Sharavana, JDS Candidate Sri Tanveer Ahmed Ullah, Kovai Ponnan, JDS Secretary and Somashekar, Shivajinagar Constituency President at press club.The JD[S] candidate also talks about pedestrian friendly footpaths, career building opportunities for college students, state of the art dry waste collections centre and better security measurements.

At a larger level as a legislator he has stated that he would ensure a common website connecting and providing all relevant data and information about shivajinagar a quarterly report to citizens on constituency progress and a transparent administration.While Tanveer Ahmed is a first time contestant from JD[S].

Nityananda has been accused of rape, forceful confinement and kidnapping.

BENGALURU: Armed with a warrant issued by the Gujarat High Court, a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) team of the Gujarat police on Saturday searched the ashram of absconding self-styled godman Nithyananda at Bidadi near here. “A search was carried out at the ashram. After it was established that Nithyananda was not there, the managers at the ashram were questioned about his whereabouts,” a police officer from Bidadi said.

Nityananda has been accused of rape, forceful confinement and kidnapping. The Gujarat HC on Tuesday had slammed the police and asked them to produce two missing women who are siblings — Lopamudra Sharma and Nandhitha Sharma — before the court on December 10. The directive came on a plea filed by the girls’ father Janardhan Sharma, who resides in Bengaluru. It is widely believed that Nityananda, along with the two girls, is in Trinidad and Tobago. 

The Gujarat police are working with Interpol, the Ministry of External Affairs and other agencies to trace the two women. Sources said the Karnataka police have been extending cooperating to their Gujarat counterparts in the investigation.

‘Nithyananda hasn’t attended court cases in Ramanagara’

However, a senior police officer told The New unday Express that Nithyananda has not been at his Bidadi for almost a year. “He is not in the country. He has not even attended court cases in Ramanagara,” said the officer.The two young women had recently posted videos on Facebook saying that they will not return to India unless the authorities meet their conditions which included being given 
police protection. 

They also said they were ready for a video conference at the embassy in Trinidad and Tobago. However, the Gujarat High Court rejected this and ordered that the two women should appear in person during the next hearing on December 10.Janardhan Sharma has alleged that the authorities at the ‘Yogini Sarvagyapeetham’ in Ahmedabad did not allow them to meet their children. 

Four of his children were initially enrolled at the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam at Nithyananda Nagara in Bidadi, near Bengaluru in 2013. Later, all four were shifted to Ahmedabad without notice last year. 
Two minor children were returned, but the two adult daughters were kept in the ashram, he had complained.

Faizan rizwan

In the run up to the shivajinagar by-elections to be held on the 5th december BJP candidate M.Saravana is confident of his victory in the triangle fight between BJP, CONGRESS & JD[S]. The BJP fielded three time corporator M.Saravana who is a popular leader. A huge chunk of tamil voters and unconditional support of minorities as well as disqualified MLAS support also.

Saravana was born and brought up in shivajinagar constituency he knows the inside of the constituency very well. Speaking to nasheman.in Sarvana said that his priority will be the garbage issue,stormwater, drainage system and footpath issues this the main priority for M.Saravana after winning the elections.He added that he will construct houses for the poor and through housing scheme he will allot houses to all section of the society,He added that the main issue would be washing of the roads in shivajinagar and other places where there is unbearable stench and dirt and garbage on weekly bases.he said he will streamline garbage disposal and see that the garbage is segregated and disposed in a proper way.he said that he will take up the cleaning of the ulsoor lake and control the mosquito menace .sarvana added that he will develop the parks and the government schools and also introduce meals for the poor students. saravana thanked his well wishers and supporters for having faith in him and he said that he will live up to the expectations of his people and voters and he wont let them down once he wins

It is usual that whenever there are floods in Maharashtra and parts of northern Karnataka, onion supply is hit because those regions produce the vegetable on a large scale

BENGALURU: The soaring price of onions has taken a toll on the onion-rich food items such as Irulli Dosa in hotels here and in surrounding areas.

Presently, the onions are being sold between Rs 80 and Rs 120 per kg depending on the quality. Shopkeepers are apprehensive the prices may shoot up further while many families have avoided the use of onion in their meals.

Some hoteliers have stopped supplying Irulli Dosa (onion dosa) as the prices have gone up, while some other have reduced the quantity of the vegetable in other food items, president of All Karnataka Pradesh Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association Chandrashekhar Hebbar told PTI.

He, however, was optimistic that the shortage of onion in the market is for a short-term and said the situation would be better after a month or so.

It is usual that whenever there are floods in Maharashtra and parts of northern Karnataka, onion supply is hit because those regions produce the vegetable on a large scale, said Hebbar.

Another hotelier Vasudev Adiga said his hotel chain per se has not reduced the quantity of onion and has decided to bear the extra burden caused by soaring prices.

However, his hotel chain has decided to introduce some innovative items, which require less onions. We will introduce new items using less costly items. It will bring a new taste to our customers, Adiga said.

In a lighter vein, Adiga said innovators usually take advantage of a situation like this and come up with alternative solutions.

That’s the way innovation happens, Adiga explained. He too said the current phase of onion shortage is for a short duration, as the government has decided to import the vegetable