Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Election Officer Sanjiv Kumar informed the elections will be held in two phases for the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka on April 18 and April 23. In the first and second phase, elections to 14 Lok Sabha seats each will be held on April 18 and April 23. For the first pha

New Delhi/Karnataka: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora today announced the Lok Sabha poll schedule that will be held in two phases in Karnataka. The polling will be held in two phases on April 18 and 23 for 28 seats in the state. And the results will be announced on May 23. Source: Varth

New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought early release of Rs 2,064.30 crore funds to provide relief to drought-hit farmers in the ongoing rabi season, an official statement said. Kumaraswamy informed Modi that the state faced dro

Haveri: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making fun of poor farmers by doling out only Rs 3.50 a day while waving loans worth Rs 3.5 lakh crore of industrialists. Coming down heavily on the prime minister at an election rally in Haveri, the Congress

Bengaluru: A 13-year-old boy died when an LPG cylinder exploded at a home in the limits of HAL police station in eastern Bengaluru on Friday morning. Police identified the victim as Sameer, from Nepal. The boy's mother, Kalavati, had left for work around 5 am, leaving him in the company of his an

Bengaluru: The Election Committee of Karnataka Congress that met on Thursday has finalised a panel of names for 15 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats, which will be submitted to the party's screening committee. The meeting attended by several senior Congress leaders including CLP leader Siddaramaiah, stat

Vijayapura: Based on a complaint filed by Assitant Professor Sandeep of Dr PG Halakatti College of Engineering and Technology, the AMPC police in Vijayapura have lodged an FIR against members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) who forced the assistant to kneel down for a Facebook post that

Badami: Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah said he was afraid of people wearing tilak on their forehead, a remark that sparked a strong backlash in the social media. Siddaramaiah's comments have gone viral, with people posting their photos with tilak on their forehead a

The Janata Dal (S) will contest 10 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, its leader and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Wedensday after talks with Congress president Rahul Gandhi, ANI reported. Gandhi met Gowda at his residence in Delhi to discuss seat-sharing in Karnataka for the Lok Sabha electi

Bengaluru: The kingpin of the PSI question paper leak Shivakumaraiah and his three associates Basavaraju and Basavaraj Hanumanthaiah have been booked under the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA) by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) after the investigators found that he was running a crime

Hubballi: Coalition government’s co-ordination committee chairman Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said that asserted that JD(S) candidate will be contesting from Mandya Lok Sabha Constituency. Speaking to the reporters at Hubballi airport Siddaramaiah said that JD(S) candidate will be contesting from Man

Bengaluru: Inspired by wing commander Abhinandan Varthaman's bravado, his haircut, and the gunslinger moustache, a hair-designer here Monday gave over 650 people a similar look free of cost. The IAF pilot has become a legend of sorts after he shot down an F 16 aircraft in a dogfight and the manne

Karnataka Home Minister MB Patil on Monday said “moral policing is not acceptable” after a professor of a Vijaypura district college was forced to kneel down and apologise by ABVP activists on Saturday for his Facebook posts that were critical of the BJP amid the simmering tensions with Pakistan.

Congress's Chincholi MLA Umesh Jadhav, whose disqualification has been sought under the anti-defection law for skipping two legislature party meetings, on Monday submitted his resignation to Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar. Mr. Jadhav, a two-time MLA, had claimed he would not quit the Congress. His

After months of speculation, the JD(S) has finally decided to give Kumaraswamy's son and actor, Nikhil Gowda a ticket to contest from the Mandya Lok Sabha segment. On Monday, over 50 persons were hospitalised after a bus turned turtle in Mandya's Maddur. Nikhil Gowda visited the Mandya Institute of

Bengaluru: KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao on Saturday, March 2 said that right-wingers are chanting Jai Shri Ram slogans and killing people, just because they do not share our food habits. Addressing Congress Party meeting here on Saturday, March 2 Gundu Rao said that the right-wing people are t

Mandya: In a road mishap reported from Mandya on Sunday afternoon about 30 people sustained injuries after the bus they were traveling on overturned near Aishwarya school on Bengaluru-Mysuru National Highway in Maddur here. According to the reports, the driver of the bus which belonged to West Be

Chamarajnagar: Karnataka forest department of Friday, March 1 arrested one person in connection with the wildfire in Gopalaswamy Betta range of forests under Bandipur National Park and Tiger Reserve. The arrested is identified as Arun Kumar, a resident of Kallipura, in Gundlupet taluk. He was pro