Puttur : Election officials seized a set of chits printed the symbols of candidates found outside the polling booth in Hantyar school in Puttur. Assistant commissioner Yathish Ullal noticed a voter holding the chit carrying symbols of candidates, following which he directed the officials to seize the chits. Further probe revealed that the chits carrying the […]

Mangaluru : The Dakshina Kannada district administration has fully geared up to conduct the elections for 3,397 seats in 227 gram panchayats (GP) in the district on May 29. It has warned political parties not to indulge in campaigning on party lines and threatened to countermand polls if they continue with the same. As many […]

New Delhi : Kiran Bedi, BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, cast her vote Saturday at a polling booth here and asked people to vote for “clean, literate and safe Delhi”. “Today is a historic day for Delhiites. It’s the day for them to decide what type of Delhi they want,” Bedi said after casting […]

Mangalore: Some sort of tension prevailed at a polling booth at Bendur on May 5, Sunday  when the staff at the polling booth pulled  the ID card of a nursing students from Kerala and said she cannot cast her vote here. As many as 25 nursing students from Athena Hospital had stood in a queue […]

Udupi : The Udupi – Chikmagalur Lok Sabha elections commenced in both Chikmagalur and Udupi at 8:00 a.m. Although polling usually begins at 7:00 a.m., this time it began at 8:00 a.m. Jayaprakash Hegde, the Congress candidate, was at the polling booth near Korgi, his native place. The police department has beefed up security in […]

Mangalore : Speaking on the arrangements of police officials on the election day, IGP Prathap Reddy (Western Range) on March 17, Saturday said that in order to control the law and order in the election venue, the chief election officers present in all the booths can give the information through messages to the special police […]