Lingayat mutt head Fakir Dingaleshwara Swami withdrew his nomination in Dharwad, impacting the political landscape. Union Minister Pralhad ...

Fakir Dingaleshwar Swami, head of a Shirahatti Lingayat mutt, filed his independent Dharwad constituency nomination, rallying local seers a...

Fakir Dingaleshwara Swami contests Dharwad Lok Sabha race, opposing Joshi. Congress backs Swami against BJP. Murugha Mutt distances. Joshi ...

Fakir Dingaleshwar Swami, the head of a Lingayat mutt in Shirahatti, held a meeting with a group of community seers at Murugha mutt premise...

A Lingayat seer is challenging Union Minister Pralhad Joshi for the Dharwad seat, threatening to run as an independent if the BJP doesn't r...

160 Veerashaiva-Lingayat mutt heads honor CM Siddaramaiah for declaring Basavanna as cultural ambassador, boosting Congress ahead of Lok Sa...

Several supporters of both Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar have been in touch with their leaders, hoping to find a place in the new cabinet. Th...

In Karnataka, elections can be won or lost with just a nod or a shake of head from the chief of a mutt. Though many mutts do not take part ...

The meeting, held on Wednesday late evening at Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and ...

A day after BJP announced its first list of candidates, the party's Karnataka in-charge claimed that BJP has "tied senior Congress leaders ...

Muslims earlier came under the 2B classification. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told the media that the Muslims would move into the EWS q...

In the past, the seer has hosted Congress' Rahul Gandhi and influential RSS-BJP leaders. BJP leader BS Yediyurappa has backed the seer, say...

The 78-year-old CM thanked the mutt heads, who held a meeting with him on Wednesday, for reposing faith in him, but said he would abide by ...

Numerous mutts of Karnataka’s dominant Lingayat-Veerashaiva community have come together to seek inclusion of 100-plus subsects in the othe...

A few religious mutt heads are now putting pressure on ministers to get similar boards for the welfare of their respective castes as well.

In fact, the CM was so annoyed at a Veerashaiva-Lingayat event in Harihar on Tuesday that he threatened to walk out when Vachanananda Swami...

Shah’s visit to central Karnataka is on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a rally in Davanagere on February 28.