Udupi: The failure of the governments and Udupi district administration to solve sand shortage problem plaguing the district, the members of Traditional Sand Boat Owners Association, Maralu Horata Samiti and Building Construction Goods Transporting Lorry and Tempo Owners’ Association, Udupi have decided to mass boycott the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Addressing the media at Udupi […]

Bangalore: Call it “son stroke” or a generational shift in Karnataka politics; it is all evident in the Lok Sabha elections in the state. A few old guards are paving the way for their sons to take over. The sons are steering talks, chalking out campaign strategies and setting sights on millions of young voters. […]

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal will embark on a three-day-election tour of Haryana starting Friday. A party leader said that the AAP chief will start from Jhajjar and cover Rohtak, Bhiwani and Jind areas. On Saturday, he will hold road shows in Kaithal, Pehowa and various towns of Karnal, Kurukshetra and […]

Puttur: Former CM D V Sadananda Gowda has expressed confidence that the BJP will emerge victorious in the Lok Sabha polls. Speaking to mediapersons after visiting Mahalingeshwara Kshethra in Puttur he claimed that the Modi wave is explicit throughout the country. “The Congress government in the State had failed to deliver good governance in the […]

New Delhi: The BJP is trying to pull out all stops this time to garner women’s votes in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sources said, the party is going to field four women as candidates from Delhi, which has 7 LS seats. Sarita Chaudhary is tipped to be BJP candidate from South Delhi. She is […]

 New Delhi: An opinion poll has predicted major gains for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern and eastern parts of the country in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Lokniti-IBN national election tracker has predicted that the BJP might win 22-40 seats out of the total 232 Lok Sabha seats in the eastern […]

Bangalore : Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said the 2014 Lok Sabha elections would witness a “straight fight between the Congress and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which remote controls the Bharatiya Janata Party.” Addressing presspersons at the Congress office in the city, Mr. Ramesh alleged that communal polarisation was the […]

Chennai:  Hours after meeting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat yesterday appealed to AIADMK to join Left parties to create a “new secular democratic political alternative” sans Congress and BJP. Stating that Congress and BJP together could only secure 48 per cent of the votes in 2009 Lok Sabha polls, […]

Bangalore : AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka affairs Digvijay Singh on Tuesday alleged that the BJP would try to disrupt communal harmony in the Congress-ruled states ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and asked the Karnataka government to come down heavily on communal forces. Addressing Congress leaders and workers at the KPCC general body […]