Karnataka

Badaun, Apr 20: BJP's Badaun candidate Sanghmitra Maurya was caught on camera encouraging her supporters to indulge in 'fake' voting. In a video which has gone viral on social media, Maurya is seen addressing party workers at an election meeting and asking them to cast votes of those not present on the polling day. "Not a single vote should go in vain and if some are absent, then it is common

Bengaluru, Apr 20: A major accident was averted after two coaches of 12786 Mysuru-Kacheguda Express detached on Friday evening. South Western Railway (SWR) officials said the incident occurred at 7.06pm between Byappanahalli and Channasandra stations, causing panic among passengers and staff. SWR officials said two third-AC coaches (B1 and B2) were affected; the B2 coach toilet fell on the ground

Hubli, Apr 20: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have no developmental agenda and hence it is raking up communal issues, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Dinesh Gundu Rao said here on Saturday. Speaking to newsmen, he said, “With you have no meaningful agenda in your basket, this will be the problem’’. He said BJP was harping on Article 370, Terrorism and National Security and

Kalaburgi, Apr 20: Congress stalwart and the Party’s leader in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjuna Kharge, who never saw any electoral debacle in his 55 year political career, is now facing a tough task against Umesh Jadhav of the BJP in the Kalaburgi Lok Sabha Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka for which the polls will held on April 23. The veteran leader, banking on his achievements as a minister both at the

Kalaburagi, Apr 20: Gulbarga Lok sabha 's BJP candidate Umesh Jadhav here on Saturday. said that he had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party at his own choice and feel that it a privilege to work in the party. Speaking to newsmen, he said that his statement made on Friday at a convention of SC and ST's was misquoted by a section of the media.

Sakleshpur, Apr 20: A young electrical engineer working for a private company died after he fell 70ft down at the Yettinahole project site at Yettinahalla Sakleshpur recently. The deceased has been identified as Rajendra Kukatanuru, 33, a native of Akki Colony in Vijayapura. According to the police, Kukatanuru was employed with Amruth Constructions, one of the companies involved in the project. He

Malappuram, Apr 20: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) is contesting the Lok Sabha election in different parts of the country only to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from returning to power, SDPI president M K Faizi has said. Mr. Faizi said that his party was not contesting in places where the BJP was likely to come in the second position. Addressing a ‘meet-the-leader’ programme

Mangaluru/Udupi, Apr 20: Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) along with the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines used in April 18 Lok Sabha election in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi-Chikkamgaluru constituencies have now been kept in strong rooms at the National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NITK) in Surathkal and St Cecily’s School in Udupi respectively. The counting of votes will

New Delhi, Apr 16: The BJP on Friday refused to condemn terror accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's controversial comment that IPS officer Hemant Karkare died in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as she had cursed him, saying it was her personal view which she might have made "due to years of physical and mental torture". "The BJP believes that Karkare died while bravely fighting terrorists. The BJP has

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not sharing complete details of Balakot air strikes. The remarks come a day after Modi's attack on him during the PM's Belagavi and Chikkodi election meetings on Thursday. Modi took on Kumaraswamy for saying the matter of air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan's Balakot should not be