Bangalore : Polling began on Sunday morning for the Assembly polls in Karnataka in which the Congress has pulled out all the stops to return to power in a complex battle after more than an eight-year-long gap. As many as 1.35 lakh police personnel – 60,000 from the state, 20,000 home guards and rest from […]

Mangalore : Senior Congress  leader B Janardhan Poojari has challenged Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi that he will quit politics if the BJP came to power in the state. Poojari who spoke to reporters here on May 2, Thursday, as Modi was addressing a public  meet at Nehru Maidan, said  Modi too should follow suit […]

Mangalore : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that “Congress gave challenge and I came, whatever they say it goes wrong; they said I won’t come and I came, they are saying that BJP won’t gain victory and we will overcome it”. Speaking at the public meet held as a part of publicity campaign held […]

Bangalore : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed confidence that people of the state would delink internal squabbles witnessed in the state BJP from the good governance delivered during the last five years. He hoped that the people of Karnataka would give the BJP a second term. Addressing a jam-packed National College Grounds here, Modi […]

Hubli : The asset value of Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has increased four times than that of his wife Shilpa Shettar, but he is literally indebted to her and brother Pradip Shettar, going by the affidavit filed by him along with his nomination papers here. Shettar, seeking a fifth win from a constituency here […]

Haveri : Sharpening his attack on the BJP government in Karnataka, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused it of having created “a world record” in corruption. Addressing a rally here on the second leg of his tour for the May five Assembly polls, he said the BJP talked about corruption at the Centre, but […]

Mangalore : The Kodi Mutt seer Sri Shivananda Rajendra Swamiji  has predicted that there will be re-elections in the state owing to political instability that will arise after the next elections. Speaking to newspersons at Suratkal on April 17, Wednesday, he said  the problem will arise as no single party will get a majority. The […]

Bangalore : Election Officers would keep a hawk-eyed vigil on “paid news” in the run-up to the May 5 Karnataka Assembly polls. State Chief Electoral Officer Anil Kumar Jha today issued directions to all District Election Officers (DEO) to set up district-level media certification and monitoring committees (MCMCs) to check “paid news” during the electioneering. […]

Shimoga : Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader K S Eshwarappa has landed in trouble with a local court admitting a complaint against him on charge of making a “hate speech.” Judicial Magistrate First Class Arjun Nallur admitted a private complaint here by the President of minority cell of the district Congress, Sayad W […]

Ugadi is celebrated with festive fervor in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. While it is called Ugadi in A.P. and Karnataka, in Maharashtra it is known as Gudipadawa. Ugadi marks the beginning of a new Hindu lunar calendar. It is a day when mantras are chanted and predictions made for the new year. The most […]