Dheeraj Kalgutkar

  READY TO CROWN: Senior Congress Leader  K. Siddaramaiah has got wings to fly! “ Counting day in fact decides who will count for next 5 years ” is one among the many tweets that made rounds on social networks as results of Karnataka assembly elections started disclosing, providing reasons to smile for congress and humiliating the outgoing BJP. There were many more sarcastic updates from netizens from frustration over both national parties to change of mood people have voted to Yeddy effect! Yes, the former CM had it all. One read “Yeddyurappa's possible reaction on results: Hum to doobenge sanam tumko bhi le dubenge.” [We will sink, no doubt, but will take you too to shallow!] BJP's embarrassing defeat or congress's sigh-of-relief win or JDS's surprise arrival - all had one thing to applause for - the Common Man, was no more dumb nor blind enough to forget & forgive their 'populist' leader. High turnout this time was alarm to this pesky leade...

The painter busy in painting the college building hours before state Education Minister Kageri's arrival at Karwar. Others busy at various tasks. Government works are at God's mercy is a statement on prehistoric stones. And as Karwar's Government degree college is getting ready for State Education Minister Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri’s welcome for inauguration function of a new building which has already started its functioning a year before without even its completion is a dubious question mark on part of College officials as well as State BJP government which is on election spree as elections are due in next months. The above picture taken afresh in the morning at exactly 9:50 AM of inauguration day of 18 January, 2013 hours before the planned function is one vital proof of hectic chaos organizers are going through in the very morning of due date when all works were meant to be completed. As stage is getting prepared inside, the drill sound...

Two biologically diverse towns of Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka state are on boil after an ambiguous move was made to shift the proposed Government medical college from Karwar to Sirsi. It’s in fact Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri's move to shift proposed college to his constituency, Sirsi, which created quite an unraveling stir in the coastal belt. Recently Times Of India was found reporting that, 'a high-powered meeting was held in Banglore under the chairmanship of minister of medical education S A Ramdas on 21 September to discuss shift of Medical College from Karwar to Sirsi'. The outcomes of this closed door meeting delighted the business center of Uttar Kannada district. However Minister for Fisheries, Anand Asnotikar, under whose constituency the Karwar falls was furious over this shift. But in between this old well known political rivalry of two stalwart politicians, the common man found himself pissed off. People from both the constituency were left with no...