Karnataka Assembly  

By-polls to 15 Assembly seats in Karnataka were held today (December 5). By 5.30 pm, 60% voter turnout was recorded in the state. C-Voter survey predicted 8 to 12 seats for the ruling BJP

Nirav Modi has been declared a fugitive economic offender under Fugitive Economic Offenders Act by the special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court today (December 5) in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case. Order on confiscation of his properties will happen later. This and more in today’s MyNation in 100 seconds

 By-elections will be held in 15 of the 17 constituencies in Karnataka. The Election Commission has not announced the poll schedule for two Assembly segments - RR Nagar and Maski due to pending cases in the Karnataka High Court over the results of 2018 assembly elections.

 
 

The Karnataka BJP lodged a complaint with the chief electoral officer in relation to former Speaker Ramesh Kumar using unparliamentary words during election campaign.  

Will the Congress and the JD(S) file a review petition before the top court in relation to the verdict on seventeen disqualified MLAs? 

17 disqualified Karnataka MLAs can contest the upcoming by-polls on December 5, but their disqualification holds good, the Supreme Court observed.

Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa spoke to the disqualified seventeen Karnataka MLAs camping in New Delhi ahead of the supreme court verdict. He promised them that he would stand by them, come what may. 

A division bench of justice R Sudhakar and justice Aruna Jagadeesan of the Madras high court held that conducting Ayudha Puja or Saraswathi Puja in government offices is not a non-secular activity. Addressing an election rally, Shah also targeted Congress for not being able to repeal Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir over its long rule even as people of the country wanted to do so.Watch top news in 100 seconds only on MyNation

Will private news channels be forbidden from covering the Karnataka Assembly session starting tomorrow (October 10)? 

A lawyer by name Shiva Reddy has filed a complaint against former Karnataka Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar for an alleged fraud that took place during his term as health minister, as elucidated in a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report

 

Six-time BJP MLA Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri (presently Sirsi constituency) is the new Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly

 

The 14 Karnataka Congress MLAs who were disqualified by the Speaker Ramesh Kumar have formally been expelled by The All India Congress Committee (AICC)

According to reports, veteran BJP leader Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri submitted his nomination papers to the Karnataka Assembly Secretariat on Tuesday (July 30). Former Speaker Ramesh Kumar resigned on Monday (July 29). Formal announcement by the BJP is expected on Wednesday (July 31).
 

As new chief minister BS Yediyurappa won the trust vote, Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar resigned from his post on Monday (July 29). Sunil Gavaskar has questioned the BCCI selection panel headed by MSK Prasad for reappointing Virat Kohli as skipper for the team’s tour of West Indies. More of the latest top stories of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds
 

Speaker of Karnataka Assembly Ramesh Kumar has resigned in the immediacy of the new chief minister BS Yediyurappa proving his majority and the financial bill passed. He had earlier hit the headlines for taking the harsh step of disqualifying all the rebel MLAs of the Congress-JD(S) coalition for the end of the term, till May 2023.