Bengaluru: The BJP on Monday lamented that Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala’s speech to the joint session of the legislature was mum on the farmer loan waiver by the JD-S-Congress coalition government. BJP’s state unit president and opposition leader B.S. Yeddyruappa in a statement here said “The governor’s maiden address to the fifteenth newly constituted meeting […]

Belgaum : Close on the heels of Vital Arabhavi ‘s suicide by drinking poison, when the legislative session was on, the opposition parties (JD-S & BJP) demanded resignation of CM for his failure to fix a minimum sale price on sugar cane as demanded by striking farmers among whom the late Vital was one. CM […]

Bangalore: Storming the JD-S bastion, the ruling Congress in Karnataka on Saturday won the Mandya and Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha seats with impressive margins.  Multi-lingual actress Ramya, making her electoral debut, trounced JD(S) candidate C S Puttaraju in Mandya by a margin of 67,611 votes, officials said. In Bangalore Rural, D K Suresh (Cong) registered […]

Bangalore : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday withdrew its candidates from byelections to the Bangalore rural and Mandya Lok Sabha constituencies as part of an understanding with the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) to take on the ruling Congress. BJP legislator M Srinivas representing the Bangalore South Assembly constituency withdrew his papers from the Bangalore […]

Udupi: Eager to identify himself as a coastal leader as well, with a star marriage connection, and to establish JD-S on a firm footing when there is not a single JD-S elected representative here, the state JD-S chief and MP, H.D. Kumaraswamy has shown confidence in local people voting for his Candidate Bhoje Gowda, in […]

Udupi: The JD-s has set up it own Candidate Bhoje Gowda of Chikkamagalur for the Udupi-Chikkamagalur by-poll due month, and Campaigning against BJP is in full force now. Meetings are taking place in towns. The sate JD-s unit-chief former CM, H.D. Kumaraswamy in a speech before JD-s workers after nomination papers were filed, lashed out […]

Bangalore: The accent is on brining CM Sadananda Gowda down, as he is reported to be hobnobbing with another Gowda, MP and Supremo of JD-s and ignoring B.S. Yeddyurappa who thinks his (CM’s) scheduled period in power is up, and he should quit. He (Yeddy) told the CM so directly last week, but his direct […]

Udupi: The JD-s is hard put to nominate anyone in a small by-poll in Udupi-Chikkamagalur, after Dr. V.S. Acharya (BJP) died, and Madhu Bangarappa who was fancied as a JD-s candidates was not selected by the Gowda family party. The by-poll winner will be MP only for an year or less, as sate elections are […]

Udupi: There was a time when Dr. V.S Acharya’s resignation was demanded by opposition parties (congress, JD-s, CPI-M and others) repeatedly as Home minister, as Muzrai minister, or as Education minister for one reason or other. recently it was for making Zouk Island Festival a porn show by hippy foreigners in naked postures. Dr. Acharya […]

Mangalore: JD-S is setting foot on Coastal districts in Udupi and Mangalore, even Moodabidri, Jain Centre. A convention of Janata Dal-Secular group workers of DK will be held in Moodabidri on Sunday, February 12, according to K. Amarnath Shetty, former Janatha minister. Talking to Press at Hotel Woodlands near Jyothi Circle, Shetty informed that a […]