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 ...

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

Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar on Tuesday said his party is prepared to face the electorate in case early assembly elections are h...

BJP plans to conduct a grand programme marking 116th birth anniversary of late Shivakumara Swami of Siddaganga mutt in Tumukuru. With Shah ...

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 ...

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...

"They are all Sharanarthis (seeking asylum in India) as Pakistan has not given them religious freedom. Many minority community members have...

Shivakumara Swamiji, the 111-year-old head of the Siddaganga Mutt, known as the 'Walking God', died on January 21 this year after prolonged...

The departed seer headed Karnataka’s most powerful mutt belonging to the dominant community of Lingayats.

While most Lingayats and Veerashaiva-Lingayats in Tumakuru remain tight-lipped about the minority status, they admitted that the issue had ...

This election season, every politician irrespective of party affiliation, be it Rahul Gandhi or Amit Shah, has made a stop at Siddaganga Mu...

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

The BJP state unit leaders had appealed to Amit Shah to take up the matter with Narendra Modi as the Lingayat community would consider the ...

Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and 106-year-old seer of the Tumkur-based famed Siddaganga Mutt, Shivakumar Swamy, were among the early vot...

Hitting out at the ruling BJP in Karnataka, Union Petroleum Minister and senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today asserted that only C...

The state government has decided to give every student a sapling to make sure school compounds go green.