Udupi : “Under the loan waiver scheme, 15,58,000 families in Udupi district will receive Rs 11,170 crore. An amount of Rs 6,500 crore has been deposited in the accounts of farmers,” the Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy informed on Sunday. “The government has objected to the Election Commission’s decision to stall the loan waiver programme […]

Mangaluru: The Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre is that it had “decimated” the constitutional institutions in the country during the last five years said, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy om Sunday at Mangaluru International Airport. Addressing reporters at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on his arrival here to campaign for Congress-JD(S) alliance candidates […]

Mangaluru: Former district in-charge minister Ramanath Rai, MLA’s Abhaychandra Jain and J R Lobo are the main reason for the delay in Mangaluru-Karkala four lane national highway work,” blamed BJP Mangaluru Lok Sabha candidate Nalin Kumar Kateel. “The three leaders wanted it to be two-lane and also wanted to physically assault the National Highway Authority […]

Mangaluru: The state government of failing to table report on the encroachment of Wakf properties before the House said, BJP spokesperson Anwar Manippadi on Tuesday. He told reporters that the Supreme Court had dismissed a special leave petition filed by the state government on March 15. “The state government is required to submit the report […]

Mangaluru: The Congress will scrap electoral bonds if voted to power, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao said on Tuesday. Gundu Rao told reporters at a press conference at the Congress Bhavan in Mallikatte that the move by the Centre to raise party funds through electoral bonds lacks transparency. “The names of those who contribute more […]

Belthangady : Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar addressed  in a public election campaign in Belthangady for Mithun Rai, on Monday. Speaking to the gathering the minister said, BJP has been seeking votes in the name of caste and they are playing the Hindutva card. Social justice is not there in the dictionary of the BJP. They […]

Hasan : Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) President H.D. Deve Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna on Friday filed his nomination to contest the Lok Sabha election from Hassan in Karnataka. Accompanied by his father H.D. Revanna, the state’s Public Works Department Minister and uncle Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, Prajwal filed his nomination at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in […]

Mangaluru : The sitting MPs of the BJP from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency will get tickets for the elections is likely to end this week. The speculations have been rife ever since Hindu firebrand leader Satyajith Suratkal and former JD(S) minister Jayaprakash Hegde declared that they were in the race for […]

Bengaluru: Veteran Congress leader and former minister Baburao Chinchansur joined the BJP party on Wednesday in the presence of state BJP president BS Yeddyurappa and Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Niranjan Jyoti. A two-time MLA from Gurmitkal constituency, Chinchansur, who belongs to the Koli Kabbaliga community had risen to the post of Textile […]

New Delhi : Congress leader Veerappa Moily had a stinging rejoinder to the BJP’s Anant Kumar Hegde’s quote about Narendra Modi being a tiger while the opposite parties are ‘crows, monkeys (and) foxes’. “The tiger has become wild, and has to be sent back to the forest,” said Moily, commenting on Hegde’s quote. Yesterday, Hegde […]