Karnataka

Kalaburgi, Apr 20: Congress stalwart and the Party’s leader in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjuna Kharge, who never saw any electoral debacle in his 55 year political career, is now facing a tough task against Umesh Jadhav of the BJP in the Kalaburgi Lok Sabha Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka for which the polls will held on April 23. The veteran leader, banking on his achievements as a minister both at the

Kalaburagi, Apr 20: Gulbarga Lok sabha 's BJP candidate Umesh Jadhav here on Saturday. said that he had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party at his own choice and feel that it a privilege to work in the party. Speaking to newsmen, he said that his statement made on Friday at a convention of SC and ST's was misquoted by a section of the media.

Sakleshpur, Apr 20: A young electrical engineer working for a private company died after he fell 70ft down at the Yettinahole project site at Yettinahalla Sakleshpur recently. The deceased has been identified as Rajendra Kukatanuru, 33, a native of Akki Colony in Vijayapura. According to the police, Kukatanuru was employed with Amruth Constructions, one of the companies involved in the project. He

Malappuram, Apr 20: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) is contesting the Lok Sabha election in different parts of the country only to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from returning to power, SDPI president M K Faizi has said. Mr. Faizi said that his party was not contesting in places where the BJP was likely to come in the second position. Addressing a ‘meet-the-leader’ programme

Mangaluru/Udupi, Apr 20: Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) along with the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines used in April 18 Lok Sabha election in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi-Chikkamgaluru constituencies have now been kept in strong rooms at the National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NITK) in Surathkal and St Cecily’s School in Udupi respectively. The counting of votes will

New Delhi, Apr 16: The BJP on Friday refused to condemn terror accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's controversial comment that IPS officer Hemant Karkare died in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as she had cursed him, saying it was her personal view which she might have made "due to years of physical and mental torture". "The BJP believes that Karkare died while bravely fighting terrorists. The BJP has

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not sharing complete details of Balakot air strikes. The remarks come a day after Modi's attack on him during the PM's Belagavi and Chikkodi election meetings on Thursday. Modi took on Kumaraswamy for saying the matter of air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan's Balakot should not be

Bengaluru, Apr 19: The Election Commission efforts to give a boost to increase of voting per cent in the IT hub Bengaluru went in vain as the so called learned voters in the State Capital failed to turn up at booths in the first phase of polling held yesterday for 14 seats in Karnataka. The polling reported in the four LS seats including Bangalore rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central and

A youth in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr constituency chopped off his own index finger that was marked with the indelible ink after he realised that he had voted for the 'wrong' party. The man identified as Pawan Kumar decided to take the drastic step after realising that he had voted for the BJP candidate instead of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance candidate. In a video that has gone viral, Kumar is heard

Magnaluru, Apr 19: Demonstrating exemplary scholastic brilliance, nine students from the Centre For Advanced Learning (CFAL), Mangaluru have qualified for the finals of the prestigious National Talent Search Examination (NTSE). They will appear in the second stage of NTSE, to be conducted by NCERT in the month of June 2019. This year, about 1,05,558 students from Karnataka appeared in the exam