Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 17: The BJP's Karnataka unit said Sunday that it has shortlisted candidates for all the 28 Lok Sabhaconstituencies and the party's central election committee would soon take a call on it. "We have shortlisted the names of all the candidates (in Karnataka). The central election committee will take a decision on it and release the list," BJP state general secretary Arvind Limbavali

Shivamogga , Mar 17: Criticising the Modi-led government in the Centre, JD(S) Supremo and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda stated that the BJP-led government has only changed the names of old schemes and nothing else in the last five years. BJP has added the term 'Pradhan Mantri' to all the schemes. "But I had not done it during my tenure as prime minister." He was speaking at JD(S) elected

Mangaluru, Mar 17: Even as two national parties – Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress – have been struggling to finalise their candidates for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency in 2019 general elections, Social Democratic Party of India has formally announced it candidate. Ilyas Mohammad Thumbay, the Karnataka state unit president of SDPI, will contest from Dakshina Kannada

Mandya, Mar 17: Even before the filing of nominations, the sugar bowl Mandya Lok Sabha constituency has been centre stage with the entry into the political arena by senior actress Sumalatha, wife of actor -politician late Ambareesh in the JD(S) strong bastion. Though the Sumalatha yet to announce her entering the fray and from which party, she has started touring the entire constituency and is

Kottayam, Mar 17: Sister Anupama, one of the four nuns who protested against Bishop Franco Mulakkal for allegedly raping a 44-year-old nun, on Sunday expressed disappointment over the delay in filing the charge-sheet against the accused. Speaking to media persons, Sister Anupama said: 'We witnesses are in extreme fear. The investigation of this case is over, and the charge-sheet was to be filed in

Mysuru, Mar 17: Tribal community in Mysore-Kodagu Lok Sabha constituency will face disenchantment after successive governments at the centre and in Karnataka have ignored their demands. Nearly 50,000 tribal families in the Mysuru-Kodagu segment and the number of tribal voters is reckoned to be around 1.25 lakh who will consolidate themselves in the run-up to the elections to be held on the first

Bengaluru, Mar 17: JD(S) leader and Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Saturday termed party general secretary Danish Ali joining Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party, as a "political arrangement" between the two parties. Ali joined the BSP on Saturday in the presence of the party's national general secretary Satish Mishra in Lucknow. According to JD(S) sources, Ali is likely to contest Lok

Dharwad, Mar 17: Senior BJP leader and MP Pralhad Joshi said that the foolishness of Congress supremo Rahul Gandhi are sufficient to make Karnataka a Congress-mukt state. Speaking to media persons here, Mr Joshi said the simmering discontent within the Congress will benefit the BJP and help it comfortably win 22 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. He said that the Congress is losing its ground in

Mangaluru, Mar 17: A youth, who had sexually assaulted a four-and-half-year-old girl child, has been sentenced to 10-year rigorous imprisonment by the second additional sessions district court which is also a special court to handle cases under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. The incident took place under Konaje police limits on December 23, 2014. The convict K M Ashraf

Kalaburagi, Mar 17: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Working President Eshwar Khandre said that the RSS and Hindutva forces efforts to defeat senior Congress leader M Mallikarjun Kharge will be in vain and he (Mr Kharge) will win Kalaburagi Lok Sabha seat with thumping majority. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, after overseeing preparation for AICC President Rahul Gandhi