Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 20: Silver Medal winner in Paralympic Girish Gowda was appointed as Karnataka Lok Sabha Election Ambassador for the second time, State Chief Election Officer Sanjiv Kumar said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference here, he said that Mr Girish Gowda had done tremendous job during 2018 Assembly election and hence he was appointed as Ambassador for the second time. He created

Dharwad, Mar 20: The death toll in the buildingcollapse at Dharwad in north Karnataka mounted to fiveWednesday as rescuers pulled out two more bodies from the debris and one person succumbed to injuries at hospital, police said. Rescuers had pulled out 55 people from the rubble of the four-storeyed under construction building, which collapsedTuesday evening at Kumareshwaranagar in the heart of

Bengaluru, Mar 20: The People Representatives Court, which heard the plea from both the Prosecution as well as from the complainant, over the bail application of the Congress MLA, Ganesh, has reserved its order. Ganesh, who was in the judicial custody over the alleged assault on the Vijayanagara MLA Anand Singh has moved a bail application before the court, pleading innocent in the charges failed

Mandya, Mar 20: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy held a meeting of Legislators of Mandya District, even as film actor turned politician Sumalatha Ambaressh, wife of former Karnataka Minister late M H Ambareesh, filed her nomination as independent candidate to Mandya Lok Sabha seat on Wednesday. The meeting assumes significance since JDS Leader Mr Kumaraswamy is fielding his son Nikhil

Bengaluru, Mar 20: The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had won as many as 17 seats in the 2014 General elections, will field its candidates in all the 28 Parliamentary Constituencies in Karnataka. Addressing newsmen here on Wednesday, former Deputy Chief Minister and the senior BJP leader K S Eshwarappa said that “we will field candidates in all the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka and win a minimum

Bengaluru, Mar 20: Determined to keep the BJP at bay and secure maximum number of seats for the Congress-JD(S) alliance in the Lok Sabha elections, AICC president Rahul Gandhi will launch a joint-election campaign on March 31 in Karnataka. Speaking with UNI here on Wednesday, the AICC Secretary Suraj Hegde pointed out, "Our president Rahulji will blow the election trumpet at a public meeting which

Belagavi, Mar 20: A 50-year-old Arun Nandihalli, son of freedom fighter and former Karnataka MLA Paramashuram Bavu, was shot dead near Dhamane village on the outskirts of the city, on Tuesday night. Police said on Wednesday that the deceased, a teacher by profession, was returning home by a car when he was waylaid by the miscreants who pumped bullets on him. Local people rushed him to Hospital

Mandya, Mar 20: Not deterred by denial of ticket by Congress, film actor turned politician Sumalatha Ambareesh, wife of former Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader M H Ambareesh, filed her nomination for Mandya Lok Sabha seat as independent candidate on Wednesday. Congress denied her ticket since under the agreement with Coalition partner the seat was left to Janata Dal (Secular). It may

Bengaluru, Mar 20: BJP national president Amit Shah and Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy locked horns on Tuesday over Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s event in Bengaluru where some pro-Modi techies were allegedly held by the police. The BJP chief, in his tweet, tagged a post by his party’s state unit that claimed the Bengaluru police had arrested some techies for raising pro-Modi slogans

Udupi, Mar 20: The Election Commission is keeping a tight vigil on the expenditure by political parties during the parliamentary elections. If people come across any violation of the Model Code of Conduct in Udupi district, they can lodge their complaints with the telephone number: 1950 at the District Control Room in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here. Complaints can also be lodged at the