Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 10: The Lok Sabha elections will be held between April 11 and May 19 in seven phases and the counting of votes will take place on May 23, the Election Commission announced on Sunday. Karnataka will undergo 2 phased polls on April 18th and April 23rd for 14 Lok Sabha seats each. The term of the present Lok Sabha ends on June 3. No. of seats per phase: Phase 1, April 11, 91 seats, 20

Bengaluru, Mar 10: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, to put to an end to the controversy over Public Works Department Minister and his brother H D Revanna's alleged derogatory remark made against Film Star and wife of former Minister late M H Ambareesh Sumalatha who was aspiring to contest from Mandya in the Lok Sabha election on Congress ticket, tendered an apology to her on Sunday

Madikeri, Mar 10: The Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) personnel have intensified combing operations inside the forest on the border of Kerala for suspected Maoists who had reportedly entered the Kodagu district. Police said that suspecting that Maoists would have entered Kodagu district from Wayanad the operations are being carried out for the last four days in the district. The ANF personnel from Karkala

Hassan, Mar 10: Four persons including a women and child killed and two others injured when a state-run Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus collided with a car at Maranahalli in Sakaleshpur in the district in the wee hours on Sunday. Police said that victims travelling in the car were coming from Sakleshpur collided head-on against the Bus which was coming from Mangaluru. Police rushed

Bengaluru, Mar 10: Several progressive thinkers and social activists have decided to support actor-turned-politician Prakash Rai, who is set to contest from Bengaluru Central constituency as an Independent candidate in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Babu Mathew, who had contested from Bengaluru North in the 2014 polls on Aam Aadmi Party ticket and is now part of ‘Save the Constitution’ movement in

Mangaluru, Mar 10: A wild elephant entered the National Highway 75 at the Shiradi Ghat section yesterday triggering panic among motorists. A Forest Department official said that the tusker was seen crossing the national highway at about 3 p.m. The tusker did not damage any vehicles operating on the national highway or property. The elephant did not cause any damage to any farm land near Gundia. It

Shamshabad, Mar 10: Prominent South Indian film actress Vijayashanti, who was once a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party has openly compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a terrorist. Speaking at a rally which was also addressed by Rahul Gandhi, the actress-turned-politician, who is now with Congress claimed that people are scared of Modi as they don’t know when he would throw a “bomb”. “People are

Belagavi, Mar 10: Bharatiya Republic Party President Prakash Ambedkar, who is also grandson of Indian Constitution architect late Dr Babashab Ambedkar has said that his party has joined hands with Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majalis-e-Ittehadul Muslimin (AIMIM) to contest coming Lok Sabha elections from Karnataka, Maharashtra and in other parts of the country as people are looking for

Kalaburagi, Mar 9: Karnataka Legislator from Chincholi Umesh Jadhav, who recently submitted his resignation to the Assembly seat today said that he is yet to receive notice from Speaker Ramesh Kumar to appear before him on March 12 as reported in a section of the press. Talking to newsmen here, he said that he has not yet received any notice from the Speaker but he saw about it in the media. "I

Bengaluru, Mar 9: In a tragic incident, three youths drowned in Burude Falls in Siddapura Taluk of Uttara Kannada on Saturday. The victims were identified as Abhishek Nair, Murali and Sai. The trio, who were on a pleasure trip, went for swimming in the Falls when they got slipped and met watery grave. The bodies were fished out by expert swimmers and sent for postmortem.