Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City South unit of the BJP observed Surgical Strike Shaurya Diwas at the War Memorial at Kadri on September 29, Saturday. The Day is being observed to commend the valour of the Indian armed forces which destroyed terror camps on the other side of the border in a surgical strike on this […]

Mangaluru: The city district unit of the BJP organised a function at the party office here on August 16 to pay rich tributes to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who passed away on Thursday. MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLAs D Vedavyas Kamath, Dr Y Bharath Shetty, former MLA N Yogish Bhat, former MLC Capt […]

Mangaluru: As per the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to go on a hunger strike to protest against the washout of the recent Budget session due to pandemonium created by the opposition, the BJP leaders of DK district unit led by MP Nalin Kumar have sat on a hunger strike in front of […]

Mangaluru: The former Mangaluru South MLA and former Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly N. Yogish Bhat on Tuesday said that the Congress government as well his successor J.R. Lobo have appropriated credit for the construction of the Swami Vivekananda 3D Planetarium at Dr. K. Shivaram Karanth Pilikula Nisargadhama. It was the Bharatiya Janata Party […]

Mangalore : A total of 69 out of the 71 candidates who contested the assembly elections from the district have submitted the declaration of expenditure to the Election Commission. If Yogish Bhat, BJP candidate from Mangalore South spent the highest i/e Rs 13.50 lakhs for campaigning, t he next highest spender was BJP’s Ranjan Gowda […]

Mangalore : Yogish Bhat : Failed to find favor with Hindu voters He tried to sail in two boats. Alienated Hindu voters by appeasing  Muslims. His inauguration of a mosque and over familiarization with a Muslim Industrialist of Mangalore was the talk of the town. He has taken his electorate for granted. Just a folded […]

Mangalore : The Congress has defeated BJP stalwarts of the undivided DK district namely Krishna Palemar Yogish Bhat and Lalaji Mendon who hitherto represented Mangalore North, Mangalore South and Kaup constituencies. In Mangalore South Yogish Bhat has conceded defeat to former bureaucrat and first timer JR Lobo. To Lobo goes the credit of defeating four-timer […]

Mangalore : The voter turn out is thin in the early hours of voting in most of the booths in South Canara district, but later picked up in several booths. The election commission has extended voting timings by 1 hour till 6 pm. Yogish Bhat and Krishna Palemar cast their vote in jail road booth […]

Mangalore : Mariamma Thomas, former corporator of Mangalore who recently resigned from the JD(S) and openly supported Congress candidate of Mangalore South Mariamma Thomas, has charged BJP candidate Yogish Bhat of making false claims in the booklet ‘Vijaya Yatre’ distributed by him to voters of his constituency. Referring to one of the claims, Mariamma Thomas […]

Mangalore : Congress candidate from Mangalore South JR Lobo has said that the BJP candidate Yogish Bhat had hurled baseless allegations against him. He said the complaint has been dismissed by the election officer who has  approved  his nomination. Lobo said  as per the election rules there is no need to mention in the affidavit […]