Bhardwaj takes over as Karnataka governor

September 11th, 2009 BANGALORE - Karnataka Friday ordered an inquiry into the attack on a Catholic church on the outskirts of the city by unidentified miscreants early Thursday. Chief Minister B.S.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj will also discharge the functions of his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N.D.

August 31st, 2009 BANGALORE - Barely three months after assuming charge, Karnataka housing and religious endowment Minister V. Somanna resigned Monday following his defeat in the recent by-election from the Govindarajnagar assembly constituency in the city.

June 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka governor Rameshwar Thakur was sworn in here Tuesday as the 18th governor of Madhya Pradesh. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Leader of Opposition in assembly Jamuna Devi, state Congress Committee president Suresh Pachouri, Madhya Pradesh cabinet ministers and other dignitaries were present on the occasion at Raj Bhavan.

June 29th, 2009 BANGALORE - Former Union Law Minister H R Bharadwaj will take over as the Governor of Karnataka today. Bhardwaj replaces Rameshwar Thakur, who has been appointed Madhya Pradesh Governor for his remaining tenure.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former law minister H.R. Bhardwaj was Wednesday appointed governor of Karnataka, replacing incumbent Rameshwar Thakur who has been transferred to Madhya Pradesh, officials said here.

June 11th, 2009 BANGALORE - The external affairs ministry has decided to set up four passport facilitation centres in Karnataka to help people apply for and secure passports with ease, the state government said Thursday. "The ministry has decided to locate two facilitation centres in Bangalore and one each at Hubli in central Karnataka and Mangalore in coastal Karnataka.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A former chief minister of Karnataka, US-educated Congress leader S.M. Krishna makes his debut in the cabinet Friday, promising to bring to his new job administrative skills and expertise in economic diplomacy.

May 14th, 2009 BANGALORE - Keen to improve the country's 'financial literacy', the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to introduce financial sector issues as part of the curriculum in schools and colleges and chosen Karnataka for the pilot project. The plan is part of the central bank's platinum jubilee celebrations.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - His son and Shah Rukh Khan are co-brothers. But Deepak Bhardwaj, the wealthiest candidate in the Lok Sabha polls so far, says he can fight on his own right and doesn't need the superstar to campaign for him.

April 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has every right to have billionaires in its fold, like the other political parties, said a party functionary Friday defending the Rs.604 crore (Rs.6.04 billion) assets declared by a BSP candidate for a Delhi Lok Sabha seat. 'Do you mean to say that only the Congress, Samajwadi Party and the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) have the right to have billionaires in their party? The BSP is fighting for the cause of the downtrodden, but it doesn't mean that it is a party of poverty-ridden people,' said a senior party functionary in Lucknow, declining to be named.

March 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Congress President Sonia Gandhi will launch her party's campaign for the Lok Sabha elections from Davangere in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Karnataka today. The launch of the campaign from Karnataka is seen significant as Karnataka was once seen as a Congress stronghold and where the BJP is considered to have made inroads.

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj Monday attributed political motives to Chief Election Commissioner N.

January 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj Saturday said around 3,000 village courts will start functioning within a month, meeting the United Progressive Alliance government’s promise to take the justice delivery system to the doorsteps of people in remote villages across the country.

December 24th, 2008 BANGALORE - Christians across Karnataka, where around 15 churches were vandalised in September over alleged conversion and insult to Hindu gods, celebrated Christmas with fervour. Hundreds thronged brightly-lit churches for the midnight mass in Bangalore.