Karnataka

Kasargod, Mar 12: An indefinite hunger strike launched by the Endosulfan Peeditha Janakeeya Munnai (EPJM) seeking effective and swift relief and rehabilitation for hundreds of endosulfan victims and their families entered fourth week on Tuesday. Environmentalist A. Mohankumar has been fasting at the strike venue for eight days. The doctors who examined him on Monday morning said his vital

Udupi, Mar 12: Thanking the voters of coastal district, Udupi Block Congress Committee President Pramod Madhwaraj has said that his party would form a Manifesto Implementation Committee to fulfill its pre poll promises. Addressing presspersons after the victory of the Congress in Udupi CMC, Mr. Madhwaraj said that the party would Congress would give priority to implementing promises made in its

Bangalore, Mar 12: The people's verdict in the polls to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), as BJP?insiders themselves admit, is a warning bell to the party that indiscipline and infighting would only do more damage to the party. The party's image has taken a beating in the last five years with internal fighting for oneupmanship, resulting in indifference towards governance and administration. The BJP?has

Bangalore, Mar 11: Congress in Karnataka put up a sterling performance in the elections to urban local bodies as political heavyweight B S Yeddyurappa played spoilsport to ruling BJP but made no big independent electoral impact ahead of assembly polls just two months away. Congress won 1,960 wards as against 906 each secured by BJP and JD(S) of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda in the March

Mangalore, Mar 11: A consortium led by the state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) will set up a three million tonnes per annum liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in the port city of Mangalore. "The New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) has given 'no objection certificate' to conduct a feasibility study and assured to cooperate with the consortium in setting up the gas

Mangalore, Mar 11: The victory of Congress party in ULB polls in Dakshina Kannada district is a pointer that the party will take away Assembly constituencies from the BJP too, said B Janardhana Poojary, Former Union Minister and party in-charge for ULB polls for the district. Addressing media persons at a news conference in Mangalore on Monday, Mr. Poojary said that BJP's anti-people policies and

Bangalore, Mar 11: The ruling BJP was Monday routed in the Karnataka urban local bodies poll, raising doubts about its prospects of retaining power in the state in elections due in two months. The Bharatiya Janata Party was a poor third, with the Congress emerging the biggest winner followed by the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), as the votes polled Thursday were counted Monday. The ballot was meant to

Mangalore, Mar 11: The anti-BJP wave in the state clearly had its effect in Mangalore as the Congress emerged as the benefiter-in-chief in the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) elections. Following announcement of poll results on Monday, the Congress party topped with 35 seats while the BJP had to be content with 20. Surprisingly the underdogs like the JD(S), SDPI and CPI(M) managed to make their

Hubli, Mar 11: The Hampi Express was detained at the Gadag Railway Station for nearly two hours after the railway authorities got a call that a live bomb had been planted on the train on Sunday. According to the sources in the railways, the authorities in Secunderabad received a call from an unidentified person stating that a live bomb had been planted on the train. The railway authorities in

HD Kote, Mar 11: The Anti-Naxal Force (ANF), police and forest officials from Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu held a meeting at Beechanahalli in the taluk on Sunday, in the wake of the reported increase in Maoist activities in Kodagu, HD Kote and other bordering regions of the three states. The meeting was attended by the top brass of the departments from all the three states. They include