Karnataka

Manglauru, May 15: The Bharatiya Janata Party in Dakshina Kannada wrested six seats from the Congress in the 2018 Assembly elections — the results of which were declared today. The BJP won in Mangalore City South, Mangalore City North, Bantwal, Puttur, Belthangady and Moodbidri Assembly constituencies — held by the Congress. In 2013 had won only Sullia constituency in the district. This time the

Udupi, May 15: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made a clean sweep by winning all the five Assembly Constituencies in Udupi district in the 2018 State Assembly elections, the results of which were announced here on Tuesday. Constituency Congress BJP JDS Others Udupi Pramod Madhwaraj 59643 Raghupati Bhat 67996 Birthi Gangadhar Bhandary 627 0 Kaup Vinay Kumar Sorake 39038 Lalaji R Mendon 48014

Mangaluru, May 15: Congress stalwart B Ramanath Rai, who served as the minster for forest, environment and ecology in outgoing government, was defeated by BJP’s Rajesh Naik in Bantwal assembly constituency. This is second defeat for Mr Rai in past eight assembly polls. He has created a history by winning six times in the same constituency. He was defeated by BJP’s Nagaraja Shetty in 2004. Rajesh

Mangaluru, May 15: Congress candidate B A Mohiuddin Bava, who had sprung a surprise in 2013 polls by defeating then BJP stalwart and former minister Krishna J Palemar, in Mangaluru City North has lost the saffron party in 2018. In spite of massive internal conflicts dentist turned politician Dr Bharath Shetty, who contested on BJP ticket for the first time has managed defeat Mr Bava by a margin of

Mangaluru, May 15: U T Khader, who was the Minister for Food and Civil Supplies in outgoing government, has created a new history in Mangaluru (erstwhile Ullal) constituency by registering fourth consecutive victory in 2018 assembly polls. Mr. Khader is son of the former Congress MLA late U.T. Fareed who had been elected from the constituency in 1972, 1978, 1999 and 2004. Mr. Khader entered

Mangaluru, May 15: Four-term MLA and the former Minister K. Abhayachandra Jain, who was “forced” to contest again as a Congress candidate, has tasted first defeat in Moodbidri constituency. Umanath Kotian, who was defeated by Jain by a margin of 4,550 votes in 2013, today defeated the latter by a huge margin.

Bengaluru, May 14: Counting of votes will be taken up on Tuesday for the Karnataka Assembly elections, which pollsters have said would likely go down to the wire, with a neck and neck race between the state's ruling Congress and challenger BJP. Several exit polls have predicted a hung Assembly and said former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's JD(S) would play the role of the kingmaker. In one of the

Mangaluru, May 14: Even though the Election Commission has taken elaborate measures to ensure free and fair polls, a few shortcomings and negligence on part of the babus in just concluded Karnataka assembly polls had created enormous confusions and increased the possibilities of vote rigging, said U T Khader, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs. The three-time MLA, who contested

New Delhi, May 14: The just-concluded Karnataka state elections were the "most expensive ever" assembly poll in the country in terms of money spent by political parties and their candidates, according to an analysis by a research organisation. The Centre for Media Studies, which describes itself as a not-for-profit, multi-disciplinary development research and facilitative think-tank on its website

Bengaluru, May 14: Two days after the assembly elections, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on Monday announced tariff hike. Usually, the hike is announced in the last week of March every year and the hike comes to effect from April 1. But as the poll code of conduct was in place, the commission had to wait till the elections were over. However, today’s revised tariff will be