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Former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah.

Video | Siddaramaiah: ‘Congress may get at least 130 seats in Karnataka’

The former Chief Minister discusses the Congress’s political strategy ahead of the Karnataka Assembly election scheduled to be held on May 10, 2023.

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At a protest by the SDPI against the government’s plan to scrap the quota for Muslims, in Mysuru on March 26.

Dalits, Muslims stage protests in Karnataka against reservation rejig plan

The BJP decided to meddle with the reservation policy to win over voters ahead of the May 10 Assembly election.

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An advertisement in newspapers in Karnataka on March 19 announcing the commencement of the shooting of a film titled ‘Uri Gowda Nanje Gowda’.

Vokkaliga seer stops film on Tipu Sultan, saves BJP the blushes

By fabricating history and asserting that two fictitious Vokkaliga soldiers killed Tipu, the Sangh Parivar tries to advance its political agenda.

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The Hanuman Temple located on Anjanadri Betta.

BJP does temple run to woo Vokkaligas, tribals

The party attempts social engineering in Anegundi and Ramanagara by going back to Ram and Hanuman.

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Karnataka BJP election campaign rides on distortion of history

The saffron party is aiming to win the Vokkaliga vote with mythical tales of “Tipu killers”.

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Tamil estampages being digitised at the regional centre of the Archaeological Survey of India in Mysuru.

ASI Mysuru works on preserving history from inscriptions in estampages

The agency intends to soon establish a National Museum of Epigraphy in south India.

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A glimpse of the start of a Panchamsali Lingayat protest march seeking reservation for the community, led by Jagadguru Basava Jaya Mruthyunjaya Swamiji, on December 22, 2022.

BJP woos Karnataka’s powerful castes with reservation sop ahead of Assembly election

The party’s promise to hike reservation provided to Lingayats and Vokkaligas has already run into rough weather.

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According to data from the Karnataka Forest Department, 79 people have died as a result of elephant encounters in Karnataka between 2017 and 2021. Elephants are commonly sighted in the coffee plantation areas of Hassan district.

Hills of Hassan district plagued by perennial human-animal conflict

Giant fences or elephant translocation might not be the right solutions to resolve the problem.

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‘Permanent solution to human-elephant conflict elusive’: Vinod Krishnan

In conversation with the wildlife conservationist.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves after unveiling the 108 feet-tall bronze statue of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, called ‘Statue of Prosperity’, in Bengaluru, on November 11.

Wooing the Vokkaligas: Cracks appear in JD(S) vote base in Karnataka

The BJP is pulling out all the stops to get them to its side in the 2023 Assembly election.

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Pro-Kannada protesters in Hire Bagewadi in Belagavi on December 6.

Language politics resurges in Karnataka, Maharashtra over border dispute

It presents the opposition in both States a chance to use it against their respective governments.

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A rock bruising consisting of humped bulls, birds, and ithyphallic humans at Sanganakallu.

‘Museums are better than textbooks’: Archaeologist Ravi Korisettar

Robert Bruce Foote travelled across south India for over 40 years collecting antiquities.

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