Karnataka

Mangalore, Mar 28: In a novel way to attract voters and spread awareness among electorates to exercise their right to vote, electoral officials in Dakshina Kannada mobilised students from different colleges to form a human chain on Friday. As part of Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme of Election Commission, students were seen forming a human chain in front

Mangalore, Mar 28: South Canara District Central Cooperative (SCDCC) bank president M N Rajendra Kumar expressed firm confidence that the Congress Lok Sabha candidates from the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi would emerge victorious in the elections, as there were a lot of favourable points in favour of the party. Addressing mediapersons on Friday as the newly-appointed president of

New Delhi, Mar 28: Congress ' Saharanpur candidate Imran Masood has threatened to kill Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. A video has surfaced showing Masood addressing a gathering and claiming to chop Modi into pieces. Masood is also seen saying that Uttar Pradesh is not Gujarat, claiming that there is only 4 per cent Muslim population in Gujarat while there is 22

Mysore, Mar 28: P Nagaraj, former president of the City Congress unit, committed suicide by slashing his right wrist with a blade inside his car in Nazarbad police limits on Thursday. Nagaraj, 71, was found dead by a passerby around 3 pm in his Santro car parked near a park opposite Siddartha Club in Siddartha Nagar in the city. He was a resident of 8th Cross, Vinaya Marga, in the same locality. A

Bangalore, Mar 28: The Election Commission will introduce Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) countrywide on experimental basis to ensure a fair Lok Sabha poll. All the 1,925 polling stations of Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency will have Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) attached to Electronic Voting Machines (EVM). Anil Kumar Jha, chief electoral officer said VVPAT allows

Bangalore, Mar 28: Nandan Nilekani, Congress candidate from Bangalore Lok Sabha constituency, is the most searched name on Google compared to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and other leaders. "State political veterans such as Siddaramaiah, B.S. Yeddyurappa (former chief minister) and H.D. Deve Gowda (former prime minister) lag behind a political entrant like Nilekani, as our search trends

Mangalore, Mar 28: All nomination papers filed for contesting in the Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency were found valid in the scrutiny held here on Thursday. There are 17 candidates in the fray vying to be the Member of Parliament representing the district. The Deputy Commissioner, who is the District Returning Officer, held the scrutiny in the presence of election observers and

Mangalore, Mar 27: For the first time in Mangalore, a programme on the mechanism and system of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) ' and its procedures - Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation will be organised on Saturday. Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, Assistant Secretary of International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR), Regional Centre, Bengaluru C R

Mangalore, Mar 27: Following an open panel discussion between representatives of different political parties such as BJP, Congress, CPI(M) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at Nehru Maidan on Thursday, a clash erupted between supporters of two parties over difference of opinion on a question pertaining to the arrest of RSS chief Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat. The clash subsided as the police intervened and

Mangalore, Mar 27: Launching yet another tirade against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Dakshina Kannada B Janardhan Poojary said that although Modi was allowed to contest in the Lok Sabha elections as per the law, he had no moral right to do so. Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, he claimed that Modi was not an innocent man, and made