Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 19: The Election Commission efforts to give a boost to increase of voting per cent in the IT hub Bengaluru went in vain as the so called learned voters in the State Capital failed to turn up at booths in the first phase of polling held yesterday for 14 seats in Karnataka. The polling reported in the four LS seats including Bangalore rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central and

A youth in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr constituency chopped off his own index finger that was marked with the indelible ink after he realised that he had voted for the 'wrong' party. The man identified as Pawan Kumar decided to take the drastic step after realising that he had voted for the BJP candidate instead of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance candidate. In a video that has gone viral, Kumar is heard

Magnaluru, Apr 19: Demonstrating exemplary scholastic brilliance, nine students from the Centre For Advanced Learning (CFAL), Mangaluru have qualified for the finals of the prestigious National Talent Search Examination (NTSE). They will appear in the second stage of NTSE, to be conducted by NCERT in the month of June 2019. This year, about 1,05,558 students from Karnataka appeared in the exam

Raichur,Apr 19: Police on Friday arrested a perpetrator who was allegedly behind the suspected rape and murder of a young Engineering student, whose body was found in a hanging state in the forest area in Raichur Rural Police station limits on Thursday morning. Superintendent of Police Kishore Babu said that the arrest was made on receiving a complaint by parents of the deceased student. The

Mangaluru, Apr 19: The city unit of the Girls Islamic Organisation of India (GIO) will be organising an Islamic summer camp under the promulgation ‘So Flee To Allah’ from April 23 to 29 at Hidayah Centre, Beebi Alabi Road, Bunder, Mangaluru. Girls aged between 13 and 28 years can participate in the camp after paying a nominal fee of Rs 300. The camp will be held between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday questioned if the BJP became rich by selling tea across the country. Hitting out at the BJP over its manifesto while addressing media here, Kumaraswamy said, "BJP has stated in the manifesto that they will run a corruption-free government. What corruption free? Did Modi sell tea

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo HD Deve Gowda said that unlike Bharatiya Janata Party veteran LK Advani, he is not going to retire from active politics, and that if Rahul Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister of the country, he will be by his side. Talking about his decision to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Deve Gowda said, "I announced three years back

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Sleeping on the terrace to beat the summer heat turned costly for a tea shop owner: Burglars struck at his house in Bapujinagar, Byatarayanapura, on Tuesday night and fled with gold ornaments and cash. Venkatesh N, 58, said he, his wife and two children locked the house and went to the terrace at 11pm to sleep. “But when I woke up the next day and came down to open the main door

Bengaluru, Apr 19: BJP's Karnataka unit on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission (EC) over alleged "mass indiscriminate deletion of voters' names from the voters list" in the state. The party alleged that some officials are working as agents of the ruling coalition government of JD(S) and Congress. In a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer, the BJP said, "The officials have purposefully and

Bengaluru, Apr 18: The fierce, high-decibel election to the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Karnataka witnessed an estimated voter turnout of 66.21% in the first phase on Thursday. Polling was largely peaceful except for stray incidents of violence and large-scale complaints of missing names in the electoral rolls. Bengaluru’s voter apathy continued with just about 48% of the city’s voters showing