New Delhi : Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be held on October 21, the Election Commission announced on Saturday. Counting of votes in both the states will be held on October 24, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora said at press conference here. While the term of 288-member Maharashtra assembly ends on November […]
Mangaluru : The state Assembly elections in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts begun at 7 am and concluded at 6 pm without any unwanted incident. Dakshina Kannada district at 6pm 77.63% declared, Mangaluru South recording a turnout of 67.47%, Mangaluru North 74.55%, Beltangady 81.40%, Moodbidri 75.41%, Bantwal 81.89%, Puttur 81.70% and Sullia 83%. Altogether, 24 control units, […]
Bangaluru: The first list of candidates of the BJP for the Assembly elections is likely to be announced next week. A senior BJP leader said that the first list is likely to be announced next week but not before April 10th and is expected to have 140 names. Party’s central leadership’s surveys about “winnability” of […]
Mangaluru: MLA Abhayachandra Jain has decided to make way for Mithun Rai by giving up the chance to fight the next assembly election for the fifth time in a row. Abhayachandra, who is happy about developmental works conducted during his four and half years term, is inclined to leave the seat if youth Congress is […]
Mangaluru: Rajashekarananda Swamiji of Vajradehi Math will be contesting in the next assembly election for BJP. Swamiji, speaking to a news channel mentioned that he will be the BJP candidate for from Mangaluru. However, he is yet to decide on the constituency to contest for the upcoming elections. It is said that during a recent survey […]
Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa on Saturday claimed that SM Krishna, who recently resigned from the Congress, will join his party soon. “SM Krishna has decided to join BJP. We don’t know when for certain, we’ll fix that soon. But he is joining 100 per cent,” Yeddyurappa told reporters. Ever since Krishna resigned as […]
Kundapur: Haladi Srinivas Shetty, who had quit the BJP after missing on a minister’s post and won the 2013 assembly election from Kundapur as an independent candidate by a record margin is likely to rejoin the BJP. It is said that he was seen at BJP’s Ekatha Samavesha held at Palace Grounds, Bengaluru on Sunday. […]
Bangalore : The Congress government in Karnataka will launch on Wednesday its twice-postponed Re.1 a kg rice scheme to help nearly 10 million poor families in the state. The families holding BPL (below poverty line) cards will get between 10-30 kg rice per month at Re.1 a kg. One member families can buy up to […]
Mangalore : 2013 May 5th election become a record of sort in the history of Karnataka assembly elections held since 1957. It recorded highest voters turn out of 72.3% beating 1978 election record of 71.9%. The district vise polling percentage stands like this Dakshina Kannada -73.92% Bidar -55.98% Udupi -76.76% […]
