Sadananda Gowda News

Yediyurappa met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on July 16 (Friday) and BJP president JP Nadda the next day. He then denied allegations about his resignation and said that the meeting was only to discuss issues related to the state. He also said that he would visit Delhi again to meet with the leaders in the first week of August.

The minister was first admitted to a hospital in Chitradurga and later shifted by an ambulance through zero traffic management, to a private hospital here. Zero traffic management is a privilege that allows convoys of VVIPs to pass through roads where movement of other vehicles is temporarily halted. The Minister was on his way to Bengaluru from Shivamogga after attending a state BJP meeting.

In the draft National Education Policy 2019, a three-language formula has recommended the inclusion of English and Hindi besides mother tongue in non-Hindi speaking states, while Hindi-speaking states were to include English and an Indian language from other parts of the country. Many leaders from non-Hindi states, especially Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, are opposing the policy.

Prime Minister Modi, along with his council of ministers, will take oath as the 15th the Prime Minister of India in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Changes in cabinet: Union Minister Sadananda Gowda; Narendra Singh Tomar made incharge of additional ministries

The statistics ministry is set to change the base year of national accounts to 2017-18 from 2011-12 after completion of the household consumer expenditure survey and labour force data by the end of 2018.

Union Ministers Smriti Irani and DV Sadananda Gowda have been dropped from Inter-State Council, official sources said on Wednesday.

The Uniform Civil Code has been a controversial issue and it was the part of BJP`s poll manifesto.

Speaking after inaugurating the election convention of Manjeswaram BJP candidate, K Surendran at Vorkali near here, he said people of the state should think about their status during the present Congress-led UDF rule.

The minister said the government has taken steps to remove hundreds of obsolete laws from the statute book.

Gowda said though he appreciated the intention of the members, it would not be possible for the government to introduce compulsory voting and penalise those who failed to exercise their franchise.

Law Minister Sadananda Gowda said that he was in the process of discussions with his senior law officers on the issue of women's entry to Sabrimala.

 There is no proposal to increase the retirement age of judges of Supreme Court and High Courts, the government today informed the Rajya Sabha.

Members of Cauvery Nadi Swachhata Andolan called on Union Ministers Uma Bharti, Sadananda Gowda and BJP chief Amit Shah and expressed concerns over the "alarming" pollution level of the river.

An apex court bench also held that Gowda did not exercise his influence as Karnataka`s deputy leader of opposition to arm-twist BDA to decide in his favour.

The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the Karnataka HC order on cancelling the sanction of the five-storey plot allotted to Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda in Bengaluru.

The police arrested Pradeep Gowda, nephew of Union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, here on Saturday in connection with the Malekudiya hand chopping case.

The amendments to Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 have been placed on the agenda of the Cabinet for Thursday, sources said here.

Railway employees will be given 78-day wages as Diwali bonus, the same as in the last two years for the fiscal 2013-14 despite the financial crunch.

Launched by Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda, the smart card can be used only at counters at 12 nominated stations for now, as a pilot project.