Bangalore: A day after his searing personal attack with “poison” barb at former Prime Minister and JDS chief H D Deve Gowda, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee Chief G Parameshwara on Thursday expressed regret over his comments. “….no I didn’t mean that. I just made that statement very casually…some sort of joke kind of a thing… […]

New Delhi : Failing to keep the April 3 date for releasing its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, BJP will now come out with its poll promise document on April 7, the first day of polling. Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman, while making the announcement, added that a charge sheet against Congress led United Progressive […]

Ghaziabad : Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi took on the Congress on the issue of secularism. Addressing a rally in Ghaziabad on Thursday, Modi accused Congress President Sonia Gandhi of adding a communal colour to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and playing divide and rule. A day after […]

Hyderabad : Union Textiles Minister Kavuri Sambasiva Rao Thursday resigned from the union cabinet to protest bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and announced that he would not contest the Lok Sabha polls on Congress ticket. Rao sent his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying the manner in which the state was divided pained him. He […]

Karnataka : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi will campaign for the party’s candidates in the State from April 4. Chairperson of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee campaign committee Veeranna Mattikatti told presspersons here on Friday that Mr. Rahul Gandhi would campaign in Mangalore and Bellary on April 4. […]

Bangalore : Stoking a controversy with a no-holds barred personal attack on former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, KPCC President G Parameshwara today taunted the JDS chief over his alleged remark in the past that he would consume poison if his party did not win Assembly elections. “Just nine months back, the senior Gowda had […]

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party is likely to release its national manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on Thursday evening. The manifesto will spell out the party’s stand over different issues including its agriculture, economic and foreign policy, sources had said to the PTI.Issues like gas price, party’s stand on section 377 and […]

Bangalore :  Six former chief ministers of Karnataka, including one who was prime minister for 10 months, are in the fray for the Lok Sabha seats from the state  a record of sorts. Of them, two each are from the Congress (M. Veerappa Moily and N. Dharam Singh), the BJP (B.S. Yeddyurappa and D.V. Sadananda […]

New Delhi : The Indian mood is “sour” as 70 percent of the people are dissatisfied and are rooting for a change in political leadership, a prominent US-based research group said Tuesday. The study also found that 7 8 percent of its respondents favoured BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as compared to the 50 […]

Chikkaballapur: Carrying the tag of a “migratory bird”, former Chief Minister and state JDS chief H D Kumaraswamy has taken a gamble on a new turf ranging himself against Union Minister M Veerappa Moily from Chikkaballapur Lok Sabha constituency, making it a tight race. Kumaraswamy is seeking to gain hold in a territory where voters […]