Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 12: Union minister HN Ananth Kumar on Saturday said the 2018 assembly elections will be fought between the Congress and BJP, and ruled out space for a third party. The Karnataka leader was in charge of a part of Purvanchal, the eastern end of Uttar Pradesh where the BJP scored substantially in the assembly elections. Asked what role the JD(S) would play in the Karnataka elections

Lucknow, Mar 12: Asaduddin Owaisi led All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), not only drew a blank in the Uttar Pradesh elections, but also helped Bharatiya Janta Party win a few Muslim dominant constituencies this time. In Uttar Pradesh, Muslims make around 20 per cent of the state population. Some reports suggest, there are around 70 seats in the state where Muslims make 75-35 per cent

New Delhi, Mar 12: ICICI Bank topped the list of banks that witnessed most number of frauds during April-December period of 2016 with state-owned SBI taking the second spot, RBI data said. During the first nine months of the current fiscal, as many as 455 fraud cases involving Rs 1 lakh and above were detected in ICICI Bank, closely followed by SBI (429), Standard Chartered (244) and HDFC Bank

Berlin, Mar 12: Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker said he wanted to set up a full service Indian carrier to fly domestic routes with around 100 narrowbody planes, now that the country had opened up the airline industry to foreign investors. Seeking to extend its reach Qatar Airways has been buying stakes in other airlines, and Al Baker said at the ITB travel fair in Berlin that India

Panaji, Mar 12: With Goa polls throwing up a fractured verdict, both the BJP and the Congress legislature parties are meeting today to decide their respective leaders and work out strategies to form government in the state. "The BJP legislature party will meet in the afternoon. We will explore the possibility of forming the next government," party's state general secretary Sadanand Tanawade said

Lucknow, Mar 12: In Uttar Pradesh, where Muslims comprise 19% of the population, the number from the minority community in the House has declined to 24. It's a marked difference from the 2012 polls when 69 Muslim MLAs entered the legislature. In a state where Muslims are a sizeable vote bank, BJP did not field a single Muslim in the 403 seats. Muslims have a strong presence in west UP, Rohilkhand

New Delhi, Mar 12: The chanting of ‘Jai Shriram’ at the counting centres across most parts of the state and BJP offices after the saffron party’s huge win signaled that the Ram Temple issue may be back on the party’s agenda. At the BJP headquarters as well as in Ayodhya, from where BJP nominee Ved Prakash Gupta romped home by defeating UP?Minister Tej Narain Pandey, slogans rented the air as

Hubballi, Mar 12: It was an unusual scene at GE PU College, the only centre for the ongoing PU examination in Kalghatagi taluk in Dharwad district, on Saturday. Around 10 am, ahead of the scheduled start of the annual Pre-University Course (PUC) examination, as many as 28 officials were eagerly waiting for just one candidate to turn up for the optional Education subject. Nagappa Lamani was the

Kalaburagi, Mar 12: It is not right to blame?Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for the party’s defeat in UP Assembly election, said Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge. He was speaking to reporters here on Saturday. “No one can make a Congress-free India. In a democratic set-up, only people can put an end to a party. However, you can’t finish off a party by the mere

New Delhi, Mar 11: The BJP has more than doubled its vote share in Uttar Pradesh to close to 40 per cent since the last assembly elections though there is a slight drop since the Lok Sabha polls of 2014. The BJP did even better in the neighbouring Uttarakhand with over 46 per cent vote share, though down from nearly 56 per cent in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. In Punjab, where the Congress was headed