Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party announced the candidates for five of the eight remaining constituencies in the State, giving room to the view that the entry of B. Sriramulu of the BSR Congress to the BJP to contest from Bellary is still under consideration. The candidates for Hassan and Bidar are yet to be named. […]

Bangalore: The Janata Dal (Secular) on Monday released a list of 12 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The Parliamentary Board of the party, which met here finalised candidates. According to sources, the list of another 16 candidates would be announced in the next two days. As expected, the former Prime Minister and party national […]

Bangalore: After a long spell of instability and repeated upheavals, Karnataka politics in 2013 entered the phase of stability with a single party getting simple majority to hold the reins of power. However, cracks appear to have already developed in the new dispensation headed by Siddaramaiah, owing to infighting within the ruling Congress. In the […]

Bangalore : The Congress, still basking in the glory of the two Lok Sabha byelection victories on Saturday, had another reason to rejoice on Monday: the party won two of the three Legislative Council seats for bypolls were held. Congress won the Council seats from the local authorities’ constituencies of Dharwad (Nagaraj Chabbi) and Mysore-Chamarajanagar […]

Editorial – The latest crisis that rocked the BJP government in Karnataka has only added to the disillusionment of the people of the state who most probably are cursing themselves for bringing  a ‘party with a differnece’ to power only to get the state’s image tainted beyond repair. Karnataka, a once proud state today has […]

Bangalore: Sorekoppa Bangarappa, over 80, former CM of Karnataka, a MP later and BJP to Congress hopper, now has joined JD-S in the presence of a beaming Deve Gowda, who is running out of luck but thinks with Bangarappa the fortunes of JD-S will change for the better. H.D. Kumaraswamy, JD-S state unit Chief and […]