Karnataka Speaker Ramesh Kumar on Sunday disqualified 14 rebel MLAs from the Congress and the Janata Dal Secular for violating their parties’ whips to attend the Assembly and vote for the then rulin...

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The Congress-JDS government in Karnataka collapsed on Monday after the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy was defeated in the assembly, ending his 14-month long turbulent tenur...

The BJP, impatient to seize power in Karnataka, will have to wait two more days as the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government ignored two deadlines set by the governor to hold the trust vote on Friday...

After the Supreme Court's interim order on the Karnataka crisis on Wednesday, confusion deepened on the trust vote and the 16 MLAs, whose fate seems to depend on Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar, whose role ...

Two Independents on Monday resigned as ministers and withdrew support to the Karnataka ruling coalition, theoretically reducing it to a minority and prompting a last-ditch attempt to save the governme...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday told the Lok Sabha the BJP had no role in the Karnataka crisis and took a dig at Rahul Gandhi, saying he had started the resignation spree in the Congress.His ...

The Congress on Monday said its ministers have resigned voluntarily to enable reshuffle of the cabinet and make way for the disgruntled MLAs, a move that is a last-ditch attempt to save the 13-month-o...

Several Congress ministers in Karnataka on Sunday apparently offered to sacrifice their posts in favour of the rebel MLAs who have resigned, as the state’s ruling allies held hectic parleys to find ...

Veteran Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has said the BJP has mastered the art of engineering defections and is deploying it brazenly to weaken all Opposition parties. Kharge spoke against the backd...