Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 24: Making fun of the fractious relationship between BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and L K Advani, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the BJP patriarch should change his name if he wanted Modi to listen to him. "If Advani wants Modi to listen to him, he should drop "v" from his name," Kejriwal tweeted, a day before his visit to Varanasi to announce his

Kuala Lumpur, Mar 24: The missing Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people on board, including five Indians, crashed in remote southern Indian Ocean with no survivors and their families have been informed, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced today, 17 days after the jet vanished mysteriously. "With deep sadness and regret I must inform you that, according to new (satellite) data, flight MH370

New Delhi, Mar 24: The BJP, accused by its critics of making Narendra Modi the sole point of its campaign, was today left to explain confusing signals from two posters tweeted by its chief Rajnath Singh. At 1:17 pm, Mr Singh tweeted an unseen poster starring himself, with the words "Ab Ki Baar, Bhajapa Sarkar (Time for a BJP government)." The campaign, which missed the usual Modi image, seemed to

Mangalore, Mar 24: Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate K Yadav Shetty and independent candidate Sudatta Jain filed their nomination papers for the Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency, with the district election officer in Mangalore on Monday. S Vijaya Kumar of Communist Party of India (CPI) submitted his nominations papers for the Udupi-Chikmagalur parliamentary seat in Udupi on

Mangalore, Mar 24: Several newcomers such as former JD(S) leader DM Aslam, former Deputy Commissioner of Police D Dharmaiah, advocate Dinakar Shetty, Mariamma Thomas, Asif Bengere, Basheer Baikampady, Joseph Pinto, Sandeep Kankanady, Hameed Hussain and their followers were formally inducted into the district unit of Congress party, ahead of elections, at a party workers ' convention held at Town

Bellary, Mar 24: Former Karnataka minister B Sriramulu, who joined the BJP recently to contest Bellary Lok Sabha seat, today surrendered before a court here which had issued a Non-Bailable Warrant against him in a case relating to poll code violation during Assembly polls last year. Sriramulu appeared before the Judicial Magistrate First Class and tendered an apology for failing to present himself

Barmer, Mar 24: After the BJP told him he cannot run as its candidate from Barmer in Rajasthan, Jaswant Singh has decided to go solo. He filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate this afternoon. "I will not say good bye till the party says goodbye," he said later, putting the ball on a possible expulsion firmly in the BJP's court. On other fronts, he was less diplomatic. "NaMo NaMo

Belgaum, Mar 24: Controversial chief of right wing outfit Sri Ram Sene, Pramod Muthalik, today claimed it was Congress' "conspiracy" that had stalled his entry into BJP, which quashed his party membership within hours after opposition from within and severe flak from other parties. "It is a Congress conspiracy. There was a lot of enthusiasm among the majority community after I joined BJP. Congress

Mangalore, Mar 24: It was indeed a meaningful commemoration of Martyrs ' Day as CREST (Creating Resource to Empower Society Today), the youth wing of Centre for Integrated Learning in association with Rotary Club of Mangalore North and www.youthania.com, a youth portal organized Insignia 2014, student leadership workshop at Rotary Bal Bhavan here on Sunday. Intense sessions, discussions

Mangalore, March 24: The state unit of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has decided to field the party 's district vice-president Haneef Khan Kodaje as the party candidate for Lok Sabha elections from Dakshina Kannada constituency, said SDPI state general secretary Abdul Latheef. Addressing a press conference in the city on Monday, he said that after the pre-poll alliance with state Janata