Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 26: NCP chief Sharad Pawar has waded into a controversy for asking his supporters to remove the indelible ink mark and vote twice in the coming Lok Sabha election. But makers of the ink say it cannot be erased so quickly and those who try to do so with chemicals may end up burning their fingers. According to C. Harakumar, marketing manager of Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited (MPVL)

Udupi, Mar 26: Jayaprakash Hegde, the Congress candidate for LS polls to the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency, filed his nomination papers at the deputy commissioner 's office here on Wednesday. After handing over the four sets of papers to Deputy Commissioner Muddu Mohan, Mr Hegde expressed his confidence of winning the election at least by one lakh votes. “People of this constituency

Mangalore, Mar 26: A total of 17 candidates have filed 30 sets of nomination papers altogether from the 17-Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency in the coming elections next month, said Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim, who is also the District Election Officer. Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday, he informed reporters that the scrutiny of the nomination papers submitted by the 17

Bangalore, Mar 26: Former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, former minister B Sriramulu and state senior Congress leader Janardhana Poojary today jumped into the fray on the last day of filing of nominations for the April 17 Lok Sabha polls in the state. Kumaraswamy, who was accompanied by wife Anitha Kumaraswamy, filed nomination papers to take on Union Minister M Veerappa Moily from Chikkaballapur

New Delhi, Mar 26: The Supreme Court on Wednesday set a condition of depositing Rs 10,000 crore by Sahara Group for granting bail to Subrata Roy. The apex court agreed to defreeze bank accounts of Sahara companies to raise Rs 10,000 crore. The court adjourned the case for tomorrow, asking the group to give details of the bank account numbers which are to be defreezed. The Sahara group on Tuesday

Mangalore, Mar 26: Congress Lok Sabha candidate for Dakshina Kannada constituency B Janardhan Poojary filed his nomination papers with the District Election Officer and Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim here on Wednesday. He was accompanied by district in-charge minister Ramanath Rai, health minister U T Khader and MLAs Vasanth Bangera and J R Lobo. March 26, Wednesday, was the last day for

New Delhi, Mar 26: Expressing confidence that UPA will form the government again, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday asserted that BJP 's campaign “balloon” will burst like India Shining ' in 2004 as he warned that Narendra Modi 's coming to power would be damaging for the country. Mr. Gandhi, along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cautioned

Mangalore, Mar 26: Malavika Avinash, one of the 35 star campaigners of BJP in Karnataka, condemned the unparliamentary ' remarks made by chief minister Siddaramaiah against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. Addressing media persons at a press conference in the city on Tuesday, she said that state BJP leaders have given a fitting reply to Siddaramaiah 's remarks. She said that the

Mangalore, Mar 26: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader has expressed shock over what he called the baseless allegations ' made against him by opposition parties and a section of media amidst the ongoing campaign for Lok Sabha polls. The state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has accused Mr Khader of misusing his power to divert a Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) site from a

New Delhi, Mar 26: The Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the plea for CBI/SIT probe into the Muzaffarnagar communal riots that took place in September 2013. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said that if the centre and the state intelligence agencies had smelled of what was happening at the ground level, then the riots could have been prevented. Declining the prayer for CBI