Karnataka

Mangalore, Mar 16: BJP MLC Monappa Bhandary alleged that the police department had compiled a list of 300 rowdy-sheeters in the district, which included several activists from Hindu organisations and BJP party workers like Sharan Pumpwell, Pradeep Pumpwell and Subhash Padil, proposing them for preventive detention. Speaking at a press conference at Sanghaniketan here on Saturday, he accused the

Kozhikode, Mar 16: The poll fever seems to have crossed the seas and set in early among Kerala's expats in the Gulf. Eager to join into the election preparations, Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre, an organisation of expats aligned to IUML, has booked a chartered flight to fly down their volunteers and voters from Dubai for the polls. The Air India chartered flight christened "Voter's Flight" will

Bangalore, Mar 16: Former prime minister and JD(S)?leader H?D?Deve Gowda is learnt to have offered senior Congress leader C?K?Jaffer Sharief the party ticket to contest from Mysore Lok Sabha constituency. Sharief called on Gowda at the latter 's residence and held discussions with him on Saturday. The meeting took place in the presence of former chief minister H?D?Kumaraswamy. The leaders are said

New Delhi, Mar 16: Voters across India, barring the northeast, will be given 11 hours - from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. - to cast their ballot for the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission said Saturday. In the most of the northeast region, people will get 10 hours - between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. - to vote, while in Manipur and Nagaland - where the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act is in force - polling

Bangalore, Mar 15: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal Saturday struck a chord with Bangaloreans during a day-long road show to campaign for his party's candidates contesting in the general elections. "People of Karnataka, especially Bangaloreans, are fed up with the Congress and the BJP whom they voted to power in every alternate election as they had no choice then," a beaming Kejriwal

New Delhi, Mar 15: Narendra Modi will contest the Lok Sabha election from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, BJP announced tonight, putting to rest all speculation and hoping to boost the party's prospects in the electorally crucial state. Modi, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, will replace sitting MP and senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi, who had been resisting the move. Joshi has been shifted to

Mangalore, Mar 15: Detailing the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, former Secretary to the Government of Karnataka, Department of Law Robinson D 'Souza said that the legislative act was applicable to a place of work even if there was only one female employee or worker, and repeated violations of the Act could result in the cancellation of

Patna, Mar 15: At least three people, including a girl, have been detained here for threatening to blow up the Bodh Gaya and Vishnupad temples in Gaya district, police said Saturday. Police detained Sunny, Rakesh and a 19-year-old girl from Ranipur-Rasulpur locality in Patna late Friday, Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said. "Three of them were detained for interrogation after police

Mangalore, Mar 15: Aam Admi Party 's candidate for Dakshina Kannada constituency, M.R. Vasudeva spent his first couple of days before campaigning meeting religious heads and visiting religious places seeking divine blessings. Mr Vasudeva met Rev. Aloysius Paul D 'Souza, Bishop of Mngalore, Rev. Dr. John Stephen Sadananda, Bishop of Churches of South India and Twaka Ahmed Musliyar, Khazi of

Mangalore, Mar 15: Dakshina Kannada District Election Officer A B Ibrahim said that the district had over 29,000 registered voters enrolled in the voters ' list at present as compared to the figure prior to assembly elections in the state last year. Addressing mediapersons at a press briefing at the taluk panchayat office here on Saturday, he said that the number of registered voters as of January