Karnataka

Mangalore/Udupi, Mar 30: Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district administrations are gearing up to implement webcasting in hundreds of polling booths under their jurisdiction during April 17 Lok Sabha polls. According to officials, 247 booths in Dakshina Kannada and 197 booths in Udupi will adopt webcasting method. Students are given opportunity to record the election proceedings from polling stations

Hassan, Mar 30: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has expressed confidence of Congress victory in Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, which is considered as JD(S) bastion. Launched a tirade against JD(S) supremo H?D Deve Gowda, who is contesting from Hassan, and his sons – H D Kumaraswamy and H D Revanna, the CM said that a CBI?probe could be ordered against them. “A?CBI?probe can be ordered against Gowda

Karwar, Mar 30: The Janata Dal (Secular) received another jolt on Saturday when its Uttara Kannada candidate Shivananda Naik withdrew his nomination, facilitating a straight fight between sitting Lok Sabha member Ananth Kumar Hegde of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prashant Deshpande of the Congress. The first jolt came when its Gangavathi MLA Iqbal Ansari did not file the nominations for

New Delhi, Mar 30: The BJP, on Saturday, expelled senior leader Jaswant Singh for a period of six years. This is the second time that the former Union minister has been expelled by the party. In 2009, he had been expelled from the party for praising the founder of Pakistan in his book 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence'. The decision to expel Singh, 76, for six years was taken by BJP

Mangalore, Mar 30: The alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism is not a substitute to the existing judicial system, but a supplement to the existing adjudication process of the judicial system. It is an alternative to the adjudication process in the existing system, said Justice N Kumar, executive chairman of International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR), Regional Centre

Panaji, Mar 30: Aam Aadmi Party today accused Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar of going "overboard" in "chasing" Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal but failing to arrest ministers involved in illegal mining scam. "You (Parrikar) have chased Tejpal enough. But you have yet to arrest ministers involved in mining scam," AAP leader and South Goa candidate Swati Kerkar said addressing a public

Mangalore, Mar 29: With the withdrawal of two more Lok Sabha candidates from Dakshina Kannada on Saturday which is the last day to withdraw nominations, the total number of candidates contesting from the constituency stands at 14. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, deputy commissioner and district election officer A B Ibrahim said that the Election Commission had finalised the final

Bangalore, Mar 28: Chaos broke out today at a political debate between Congress ' nominee for Bangalore South Lok Constituency Nandan Nilekani and BJP's Ananth Kumar after workers of the two parties created a ruckus, forcing organisers to abandon the event midway. As Kumar began reeling out statistics to attack the Manmohan Singh government, Congress workers grew restive and resorted to

Kochi,Mar 29: BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu today said he does not consider Defence Minister A K Antony as 'Pak agent and enemy of India'. "Antony is my friend. He is not a Pak agent," Naidu told reporters here when asked about Narendra Modi's remark describing A K Antony and Arvind Kejriwal as "agents of Pakistan and enemy of India." Blaming media for 'misinterpreting' Modi's speech at a public

Mangalore, Mar 29: Jamiyyatul Falah Mangalore Corporation unit organized a felicitation programme for new mayor of Mangalore City Mahabal Marla and Chairman, District Wakf Committee Haji S M Rasheed on March 28, 2014 at 8.00 pm at JF Community Hall, Kankanady, Mangalore. Addressing the gathering, Mayor Mahabal Marla said that people from all communities and religions had supported him in politics