The Karnataka Cabinet's special meeting on the caste census report concluded without a decision due to ministers' concerns over caste-wise ...

Karnataka's Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities are preparing for a showdown with the Congress government over the controversial caste censu...

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar convened a meeting with Vokkaliga MLAs to discuss the caste census, emphasizing communities' ...

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

The State Permanent Backward Classes Commission has prepared the caste census or socio-economic survey report and is waiting for a signal f...

The Veerashaiva Mahasabha, led by veteran Congress lawmaker Shamnur Shivashankarappa, has resisted the caste census report, and is planning...

Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar clarified that he is not against a caste census but supports a scientific socio-economic survey to asse...

The development comes within a week of the Vokkaligara Sangha, the umbrella body of Vokkaligas, giving a petition to the CM, urging him not...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has rejected allegations made by his own party leader, Shamnur Shivashankarappa, that the Congress re...

Mahasabha President, veteran Congress leader and MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa has written a letter to Kharge in this regard.

Several seers and leaders of the dominant community, which is estimated to form about 16 per cent of the states population, have cautioned ...

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

The stand taken by the NDA ally and Dalit leader is an indication of how the government will take the battle ahead with the Congress, which...

The move has found opposition among the Veerashaivas, also called 'Lingayat', who feel they have been left out and thus, warn the Siddarama...

The Union home ministry had said if Veershaiva-Lingayats are treated as a separate religion from Hindus, all SCs of the sect would lose the...

The demand for a separate religion tag to Veerashaiva/ Lingayat faiths has surfaced from the numerically strong and politically-influential...

Lingayats are followers of saint philosopher Basaveshwara who don’t worship idols or follow rituals, while Veerashaivas worship Lord Shiva ...