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New Delhi: The government is planning tightening of norms than planned earlier for bad loan resolution by making applicable the current 180-day timeline for the resolution of large Non Performing Assets (above Rs 2,000 crore) to smaller ones (above Rs 100 crore) too.
The original plan was to do this gradually over a two year period. The government has been under pressure from opposition parties over the seeming rot in the banking system -- including bad loans (which the National Democratic Alliance has pointed out, largely stems from loans issued during the previous United Progressive Alliance era), and frauds.

New Delhi: It has been made clear from list that the Congress has declared chief minister Siddaramaiah will contest from only one seat, Chamundeshwari, in the Mysuru district. Speculations was rife that the CM might contest from two seats for the May 12 assembly elections. In the first list of 218 candidates for the 224 seats released by the ruling party on Sunday, 103 of the 122 sitting MLAs have been given the tickets.
There are seven debutant candidates who are family members of either sitting or former MLAs. Siddaramaiah’s son Yathindra gets the ticket from Varuna constituency, where his father had won in 2008 and 2013.
The party has fielded GB Malathesh against BharatiyaJanata Party’s (BJP) chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa from Shikaripura constituency. Senior Congress leader MallikarjunKharge’s son PriyankKharge will contest from Chittapur.

New Delhi: The ruling Congress in Karnataka has meticulously planned caste equations while releasing its list of candidates for the Karnataka assembly elections. It has fielded 52 from the OBC, 42 Lingayats and 39 Vokkaligas. While the OBCs account for 23 per cent of the population, the Lingayats are 14 per cent in number. The Vokkaligas and Kurubas comprise 11 and 9 per cent of the population respectively.
In the list there are 36 Dalits who account for 19.5 per cent of the population. There are 17 ST candidates who account for 5 per cent of the population of Karnataka. 15 Muslims have been given tickets whole the list also comprises 2 Christians and an equal number of Jains. The Congress has also given tickets to 7 Brahmins who account for 3 per cent of the population. The Muslims account for 16 per cent of the population while the Christians and Jains account for 3 and 1 per cent respectively.

New Delhi: With the elections getting murkier politicians get carried away crossing the limit of decency. In one such incidence Congress working president of Karnataka Dinesh GunduRao calling upon the people to hit Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath with slippers whenever he came to the state.
Rao made the controversial remarks at a candle march organised by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress in Bengaluru to show solidarity with the victims of rape in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao and Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua.
The comments drew an angry response from the BJP which termed them “heinous” and accused the ruling Congress of instigating violence.
As his comments stoked a major political row, Rao said it was an “emotional outburst” and “all I said was just show him (Yogi Adityanath) slippers”. He said he regretted his remarks if they were offensive.