Karnataka

Mysore, Mar 23: The Karnataka BJP, which has launched its campaign for the May 5 Assembly elections, challenged the Congress to make public under whose leadership it would face the polls. Addressing the Vijaya Sankalpa rally here, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, his predecessor D V Sadananda Gowda, Deputy Chief Minister K S Eshwarappa, BJP?General Secretary Ananth Kumar and the newly appointed

Mangalore, Mar 23: A motorcyclist was killed and another seriously injured when they lost control over their two-wheeler and rammed into an iron rod-laden trailer truck, when it stopped suddenly near KPT Circle in the City on Saturday morning. The deceased has been identified as Durga Prasad from of Yedapadavu. His friend Harsha, from Car Street, is said to be critical. The incident occurred when

Mangalore, Mar 23: The CPI (M) has decided to field its candidates in three out of the eight Assembly constituencies for the upcoming elections. Addressing media persons at a news conference in the city, B Madhava, Secretary, CPI(M) District Committee, said that the party will field candidates from Mangalore (South), Mangalore (North) and Belthangady constituencies. From the Mangalore (South)

Mangalore, Mar 23: Members of the district unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) took out a procession in the city in commemoration of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh's death anniversary on Friday. Speaking after the culmination of the march in front of Deputy Commissioner's office, Muneer Katipalla, President, DYFI, DK, said that Bhagat Singh dreamed of a communal free India but today

Bangalore, Mar 23: Janata Dal (Secular) State president H?D?Kumaraswamy has said corruption was a non-issue in the forthcoming Assembly elections and that his party was not keen on making it a major election plank. Kumaraswamy, who has travelled several thousands of kilometres across the State in the last three-and-half months as a prelude to the poll campaign, said he was neither attacking the

Bangalore, Mar 23: Sri Ram Sene leader Pramod Mutalik, on Friday, said he has decided to take a plunge into politics and is aspiring to contest the upcoming Assembly elections as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from one of the constituencies in Belgaum district. He said he has already communicated his wish to the BJP. However, the party has not given any assurance to him. He has not

Mangalore, Mar 23: The two new leaders of Janata Dal (Secular) in Dakshina Kannada - B Nagaraj Shetty and M G Hegde - who had joined the party recently have tendered their resignation to their party posts. The former BJP leader Mr Shetty was serving as the State vice president of JD(S), while former Congress leader Mr Hegde was serving as the Secretary of the JD(S). The development comes in the

Mangalore, Mar, 22: Chalking out a new strategy to bounce back in impending Karnataka Assembly elections after recently ULB poll defeat, Bharatiya Janata Party in coastal district of Dakshina Kannada has decided to organise a mega convention in the city next week. Senior BJP leaders of Karnataka including chief minister Jagadish Shettar, Bangalore M P Ananth Kumar, deputy chief minister Eshwarappa

Bangalore, Mar 22: Those who have not registered their names in the voters' list so far, may do so till April 7 to be eligible to exercise their franchise in the Assembly polls to be held on May 5. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (OCEO), Karnataka, all those who have crossed 18 years of age as on January 1, 2013, can submit the filled-in Form 6 and enrol their names online

Mangalore, Mar 22: Dr. Abubakkar Siddiq, Associate Professor, Dept. of Commerce and Management, University College, Mangalore will be presenting a research paper at an international conference in Malaysia. Dr Siddiq's research paper entitled “The Role of Voluntary Consumer Organizations in Consumer Protection- An Empirical Study in India” will be presented at the “International Conference on