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Bengaluru, May 10: At least ten exit polls indicated that the Congress is on the cusp of coming to power while the BJP maintained that the game is still on in Karnataka where voting concluded Wednesday in what was a bitterly-fought election. Two exit polls gave Congress a clear majority - the India Today-Axis My India said the party will register a thumping victory with 122-140 seats against BJP’s

Bengaluru, Apr 29: A 22-year-old student succumbed to stab injuries that he sustained in a fight between two groups that broke out at Reva University College Fest on the college premises in Kattigenahalli near Yelahanka in northeast Bengaluru on Friday night. Police identified the deceased as Bhaskar Jetty, a final-year mechanical engineering student. According to deputy commissioner of police

Kalaburagi, Apr 28: Heavy showers coupled with lightning and thunderstorm disrupted the public meeting of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Jewargi on Friday. Thousands of people had to wait in the rain to listen to his speech at Taluk Stadium. Due to this, he delivered the speech for five minutes in a hurry before leaving for Kustagi in the Koppal district. Rahul Gandhi arrived at Kalaburagi

Koppal, Apr 28: Raising objection against AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge's poisonous snake barb against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP leader and former Union minister Basangouda Patil Yatnal has called Congress leader Sonia Gandhi 'vishkanya' (poisonous maiden). He was speaking while campaigning for the BJP candidate in Yalaburga of Koppal district on Thursday night. “People have

Mangaluru, Apr 28: BJP State President Nalin Kumar Kateel slammed AICC President Mallikarjuna Kharge who compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi with “a poisonous snake” and demanded an apology. “People of the country respect Narendra Modi as the greatest leader the country has ever seen. Congress has been engaged in criticising such a great leader. Sonia Gandhi in the past had termed him as “Mauth

Bengaluru, Apr 28: JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda, who is leading the party’s campaign from the front, has claimed that his party would win more than the 123 seats it has targeted in the May 10 assembly elections. In an interview, the 89-year-old former Prime Minister said that the history will repeat in Karnataka. “Don’t forget that we formed the government in the past (in 1994) that was stable for

Bengaluru, Apr 28: DK Shivakumar, the Karnataka Congress head who is facing a tough struggle from the BJP in his Kanakapura seat, has managed to get Narayana Gowda, a prominent JD(S) politician, to join the party. Gowda ran against Shivakumar in the 2018 elections and received 47,643 votes. The BJP has fielded R. Ashoka, the current Minister of Revenue and the party's Vokkaliga face. This time

Mangaluru, Apr 27: Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday, announced Congress’ fifth big pre-election promise — free travel for all women in public transport — if the party is voted to the helm. At a campaign meeting in Adyar, Mangaluru, Rahul said: “Not just the four [previous] promises, but we will fulfil all five promises on the first day we form the government. This fifth promise is for women. BJP stole 40

Udupi, Apr 27: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday promised Rs 10 lakh insurance cover for fishermen, Rs one lakh interest-free loan to fisherwomen and Rs 25 subsidy per litre of diesel up to a maximum of 500 litres per day, if Congress is voted to power in Karnataka. During an interaction with members of the fishing community at Kapu in Udupi district, he alleged that corruption and price

Kalaburgi, Apr 27: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday, April 27, said that PM Modi is like a 'poisonous snake', adding that if people 'lick it', they would die. He was speaking in Kalaburagi, his constituency in the poll-bound state of Karnataka. The Congress has recently increased its attack on the incumbent BJP government, going to the extent of filing an official complaint over