Karnataka

Mandya, Mar 20: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy held a meeting of Legislators of Mandya District, even as film actor turned politician Sumalatha Ambaressh, wife of former Karnataka Minister late M H Ambareesh, filed her nomination as independent candidate to Mandya Lok Sabha seat on Wednesday. The meeting assumes significance since JDS Leader Mr Kumaraswamy is fielding his son Nikhil

Bengaluru, Mar 20: The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had won as many as 17 seats in the 2014 General elections, will field its candidates in all the 28 Parliamentary Constituencies in Karnataka. Addressing newsmen here on Wednesday, former Deputy Chief Minister and the senior BJP leader K S Eshwarappa said that “we will field candidates in all the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka and win a minimum

Bengaluru, Mar 20: Determined to keep the BJP at bay and secure maximum number of seats for the Congress-JD(S) alliance in the Lok Sabha elections, AICC president Rahul Gandhi will launch a joint-election campaign on March 31 in Karnataka. Speaking with UNI here on Wednesday, the AICC Secretary Suraj Hegde pointed out, "Our president Rahulji will blow the election trumpet at a public meeting which

Belagavi, Mar 20: A 50-year-old Arun Nandihalli, son of freedom fighter and former Karnataka MLA Paramashuram Bavu, was shot dead near Dhamane village on the outskirts of the city, on Tuesday night. Police said on Wednesday that the deceased, a teacher by profession, was returning home by a car when he was waylaid by the miscreants who pumped bullets on him. Local people rushed him to Hospital

Mandya, Mar 20: Not deterred by denial of ticket by Congress, film actor turned politician Sumalatha Ambareesh, wife of former Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader M H Ambareesh, filed her nomination for Mandya Lok Sabha seat as independent candidate on Wednesday. Congress denied her ticket since under the agreement with Coalition partner the seat was left to Janata Dal (Secular). It may

Bengaluru, Mar 20: BJP national president Amit Shah and Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy locked horns on Tuesday over Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s event in Bengaluru where some pro-Modi techies were allegedly held by the police. The BJP chief, in his tweet, tagged a post by his party’s state unit that claimed the Bengaluru police had arrested some techies for raising pro-Modi slogans

Udupi, Mar 20: The Election Commission is keeping a tight vigil on the expenditure by political parties during the parliamentary elections. If people come across any violation of the Model Code of Conduct in Udupi district, they can lodge their complaints with the telephone number: 1950 at the District Control Room in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here. Complaints can also be lodged at the

Bengaluru, Mar 20: Yielding to pressure from lecturers, the Department of Pre- University Education (DPUE) has decided to delay the commencement of the academic year for PU colleges in Karnataka. In a circular issued on Tuesday, the department stated that II PU classes will begin only on May 20. Earlier, the department had sent a proposal to the government for classes to commence in the first week

Hassan, Mar 20: HD Revanna has been knocking on the doors of senior Congress leaders in Hassan to shore up support for his son Prajwal, who was announced the JD(S) candidate from the constituency. This is the first time in two decades Revanna is visiting houses of local leaders. The PWD minister appears to have got the jitters after Congress leader A Manju joined the BJP and is likely to contest

Bengaluru, Mar 20: Karnataka police after getting a tip-off from NIA arrested four persons and seized fake Indian currency of face value of Rs 1.04 lakhs at Tumakuru in Karnataka on March 18. Police said on Tuesday that, acting on a tip-off, apprehended three persons identified as Tammayya Honnappa (42) a resident of Kaduru Taluk in Chikkamagaluru district, Afroze (44) hailing from Azadhnagar