Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 23: Calling the Lok Sabha election results "unexpected", Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said the leaders of his party JD(S) and Congress would deliberate on the reasons behind the defeat in the election. As the BJP badly mauled the ruling coalition, Kumaraswamy conceded defeat and said he respected the mandate of the people. "Leaders of both parties of coalition will hold

Kasaragod, May 23: Six Assembly seats in Kerala will go for a bypoll in the near future with the win of four more MLAs in the Lok Sabha election on Thursday. Following the demises of former state finance minister and Kerala Congress (M) leader KM Mani and IUML MLA, PB. Abdul Razak, the bypolls were necessitated in Pala and Manjeshwar Assembly constituencies respectively. With the winning of four

Bengaluru, May 23: Tejasvi Surya, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youngest candidate, won in the Bengaluru South constituency by a huge margin of 3,31,192 votes against Rajya Sabha MP and veteran Congress leader BK Hariprasad With this the saffron party retained its bastion in Bengaluru. 28-year-old Tejasvi Surya secured 7,39,229 votes, while Billava stalwart BK Hariprasad won 4,08,037 votes. The

Mandya, May 23: Supported by BJP and a section of Congress leaders, Sumalatha, wife of late Congress leader Ambareesh, has defeated Nikhil Gowda, son of Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, in Mandya. What seemed like a neck-and-neck fight in the morning soon turned into a landslide victory for the independent candidate, who secured 6,98,213 votes while Nikhil secured 5,71,777 votes. With this the 55

Karwar, May 23: Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde earned a distinction of retaining his Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha seat with highest margin of 4,79,649 votes. Hegde defeated his nearest rival JDS candidate Anand Asnotikar. After all rounds of counting, Hegde has bagged 7,86,042 votes and Asnotikar, the runner-up, has garnered only 3,06,393. This is the sixth victory for the hardline saffron leader in

Mangaluru, May 23: As predicted by several BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sitting MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has not only achieved a hat-trick but also improved his performance in 2019 Lok Sabha polls leaving Congress in shock. When Mr Kateel had registered his second consecutive victory against Congress veteran B Janaradhana Poojary in 2014 general elections, the former had

Bengaluru, May 23: Even as BJP headed for massive victory in Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka, pressure has risen on chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, who is heading the Congress-JDS coalition government, to quit. An emergency meeting has been called by him today regarding this. Recently, Kumaraswamy had claimed that Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge should have been chief minister long ago. Following

Kalaburgi, May 23: Congress veteran M Mallikarjun Kharge, who had never lost any election since the beginning of his political career in 1972, is trailing behind BJP candidate Umesh G Jadhav by a huge number of votes in Kalaburagi Lok Sabha constituency. As per the Election Commission India data, at 1.30 p.m., Mr. Kharge was trailing behind Mr. Jadhav by 70,450 votes. Mr. Kharge had polled in 3,15

Bengaluru, May 23: Film actor-turned-activist Prakash Raj aka Prakash Rai, has described his defeat in Bangalore Central constituency as “a solid slap on his face.” Mr Rai, who contested independently, not only faced a disgraceful defeat but also lost his deposit. Mr left the counting centre midway after learning that he was trailing at number three behind the BJP and the Congress. He took to

Bengaluru, May 23: A 24-year-old woman Hindu woman was allegedly attacked by armed including members of Bajrang Dal and other hardline outfits for living with a man belonging to Muslim community. The woman, who hails from Tripura, stated that a group of men barged into her house in Sumangali Sevashrama Main Road in Hebbal. They beat up her friend, ransacked her house and took away all her