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Bank holiday today on Akshaya Tritiya: Are banks open or closed in your state on April 20, 2026?Bank holiday today for Basava Jayanti/Akshaya Tritiya: Banks across India will observe several holidays in April 2026, with closures varyin...20 Apr, 2026, 09.21 AM IST- Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on backfoot over Muslim anger; loyalist ousters ahead of bypoll resultsChief Minister Siddaramaiah faces internal challenges. Discontent brews within the Muslim community. Leaders close to him are being sidelin...19 Apr, 2026, 10.35 PM IST
- Congress awards Davanagere South ticket to Shamnur clan, stirs Muslim leaders’ angerThe Congress party has named Samarth Shamnur as its candidate for the Davanagere South bypoll. This decision comes after intense lobbying f...22 Mar, 2026, 05.01 PM IST
- Apex body urges Lingayats to seek separate religious identityAhead of Karnataka's socio-economic survey, the Lingayat community's apex body urges its members to identify as Veerashaiva-Lingayat, pushi...08 Sep, 2025, 11.57 PM IST
- Why traditional BJP supporters Lingayats voted for CongressCongress won 37 seats out of 46 Lingayat candidates fielded in Karnataka, in comparison to 13 in 2018 polls. This is its second highest tal...15 May, 2023, 01.02 PM IST
- Change of trend in Karnataka: Even Lingayat didn't vote for BJPCongress had fielded 46 Lingayat candidates, of whom 37 won. Only 15 Lingayats from BJP secured victory, though it fielded 69 candidates fr...14 May, 2023, 09.15 AM IST
- BJP's leaders raise "Lingayat CM" pitch to counter Congress narrativeThe politically influential Lingayat community forms about 17 per cent of the State's population, mostly in northern parts of the State whi...20 Apr, 2023, 01.37 PM IST
- Congress counts political dividends after 2 key Lingayat leaders join it, BJP seeks to counter narrativeChief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, a Lingayat himself on Tuesday in Bagalkote said, one or two Lingayat leaders from BJP defecting to other p...18 Apr, 2023, 04.22 PM IST
- Lingayats hold key to electoral outcome in poll-bound KarnatakaThough Yediyurappa's new outfit KJP managed to get only six seats in that polls, it secured a vote share of about ten per cent, badly denti...31 Mar, 2023, 12.53 PM IST
- Congress reaches out to Lingayats as BJP deals with BSY 'retirement'Congress lost its influence over the community after then party CM Veerendra Patil was humiliated and sacked by party chief Rajiv Gandhi mo...07 Mar, 2023, 11.54 PM IST
- Karnataka election: Congress's Lingayat religious minority card fails, community's vote returns to BJPIf the Congress was banking on the crucial Lingayat vote in the 2018 assembly election following its decision to grant religious minority s...15 May, 2018, 06.03 PM IST
- Lingayat churning will have big impact in future tooThe Lingayats were instrumental in bringing the BJP to power in 2008 and a large chunk of them continue to be BJP supporters.11 May, 2018, 09.08 AM IST
- Karnataka Election: Lingayat tag not a poll issue in TumakuruWhile most Lingayats and Veerashaiva-Lingayats in Tumakuru remain tight-lipped about the minority status, they admitted that the issue had ...25 Apr, 2018, 12.14 PM IST
- Old conflict, new hope: Lingayat as a religion? A quick primerVeerashaiva-Lingayats believe Yeddyurappa will give them justice, while the Siddaramaiah government is accused of conspiring to split the c...24 Mar, 2018, 11.15 PM IST
- UPA had denied separate religion tag to Lingayat in 2013The Union home ministry had said if Veershaiva-Lingayats are treated as a separate religion from Hindus, all SCs of the sect would lose the...21 Mar, 2018, 11.26 AM IST
- Karnataka Lingayat Reservation: Will Congress reap poll harvest or end up with egg on face?The Lingayat community has distanced itself from the Congress ever since the party unceremoniously removed Veerendra Patil, a Lingayat, fro...20 Mar, 2018, 11.22 AM IST
- Karnataka cabinet to discuss on religious minority tag to LingayatsThe demand for a separate religion tag to Veerashaiva/ Lingayat faiths has surfaced from the numerically strong and politically-influential...14 Mar, 2018, 12.06 AM IST
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