Karnataka

Mangalore, May 3: Campaigning for the May 5 Karnataka Assembly poll ended on Friday evening, capping a bitter canvassing that saw national leaders of the BJP and Congress making a strong pitch for people's mandate in the high-stake elections. The Election Commission which has kept a tight vigil on the parties and their modes of campaigning had directed that even advertisements in visual and print

Mangalore, May 3: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has effectively produced before the people the statistics of the UPA's corruption. The voters now know that the BJP government's so called corruption in Karnataka is nothing compared to the corruption that the Congress led UPA government has indulged in, B Nagaraj Shetty, President, Election Campaign Committee, BJP, DK. Speaking to media

Mangalore, May 3: In a fresh allegation, Mangalore North BJP candidate and incumbent MLA Krishna J Palemar has said to have covered up a criminal case against him before the Election Commissioner. Leveling allegations, Srinivas Salian, Managing Trustee, Vidya Education Trust, has said in a news conference that pretending to show interest in Konchadi's Vidya Education Trust at the time of starting

Bangalore, May 3: The Second Pre-University Examination Results 2013, conducted by the Department of Pre-University Education, Karnataka, will be announced on May 6, 2013. Over 6.13 lakh students appeared for the Second PUC Exams from March 13 at 961 exam centres across Karnataka. The Department of Education would soon be announcing the time when the results will be made available on the official

Mangalore, May 3: Former MLA Vijay Kumar Shetty who was an aspirant for Congress ticket from Mangalore North Constituency has put up a unity show by calling himself a sincere soldier of the Congress, whose duty is to work for the party. Rumours were rife that Mr Shetty was out of the Congress brigade and was contemplating to contest the polls as an independent candidate, after the Congress

Bangalore, May 3: Those who involve in any kind of electoral offences such as offering or accepting inducements, proxy or multiple voting, will face stringent action, including imprisonment of up to one year. Issuing this warning at a press meet here, chief electoral officer Anil Kumar Jha, urged the public to alert election officials if they came across allurements being offered by candidates to

Bangalore, May 2: More than 1900 detonators were recovered on Thursday by the CISF from Kolar district of poll-bound Karnataka after a bus was intercepted along the state's border. The seizure was made when a bus coming from Pummur in Andhra Pradesh was intercepted at Baipelly checkpost and two unattended bags were found inside the vehicle. The CISF troops, deployed as part of poll duties in the

Bantwal, May 3: An incident of three shops being gutted in fire has been reported from Pariyaladka junction in Punacha on Wednesday. The accidental fire caused damages to three shops housed in a building besides gutting a telephone exchange and an electric equipment room. The financial loss is estimated to be in lakhs following the damage caused by the fire to the building owned by one U T Moosa

Bangalore, Apr 3: Crony capitalism, plunder of resources and corruption in government are usually issues main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party loves to talk about, but not in Karnataka, where it faces elections after five chaotic years in power. Polls show the centrist Congress party, which heads the national government, is likely to win the Karnataka elections on Sunday, after what critics say

Bangalore, May 3: Karnataka's electoral outcome will reveal what the national mood is ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha elections, say both the BJP and the Congress. This is probably one of the reasons why the Sunday election has attracted so much national attention. Voters will pick 223 members for the 225-seat assembly that includes one nominated member. Polling in Periyapatna in Mysore district has