Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will hit the campaign trail in poll bound Karnataka at Bellary, Raichur and Bijapur on April 23.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is a world champion in corruption. Gandhi was addressing a rally in Tumkur as part of his Karnataka election campaign.
After public opposition by senior leader Sushma Swaraj, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday decided against merging the BSR Congress with it but approved the nomination of party leader B Sreeramalu for the Bellary Lok Sabha seat.
The former Karnataka chief minister is expected to unveil his plan after holding a meeting with his supporting MLAs, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
The situation in the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be grim with 21 leaders (9 Members of Legislative Assembly and 12 Members of Parliament) expressing their open support to former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in case he decides to quit the party. But what has taken everyone by surprise is the open praise lavished upon Congress president Sonia Gandhi by Yeddyurappa.
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, who is on a visit to Karnataka, was on Saturday greeted with black flags by members of the Madiga community who have been demanding reservations for a long time. Sonia is visiting the state to review the situation in drought-hit areas and take part in the birthday celebrations of Shivkumar Swamiji of the powerful Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur. The Madiga community had led a delegation to New Delhi a month ago.
April 28 will be an interesting day in Karnataka politics. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will pay a visit to the state to take stock of the drought situation and pep up the feuding party cadres. She will also visit the Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur that is considered to be the abode of the dominant Lingayat community in the state. Gandhi will take part in a programme to wish Sivakumar Swamy, the seer of the mutt, on his 105th birthday.
Bharatiya Janata Party may have come to power in Karnataka riding high on the support of the Lingayat community, but when it came to taking part in the birthday celebrations of the religious head of the sect, the party seems to have preferred to look away.
Seeking to set at rest speculation on his future political moves, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has decided to stay away from the coming 105th birthday celebration of Siddaganga mutt seer Shivakumara Swamiji in which Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is to take part in it.
What was thrown out as waste and burnt as firewood is now being converted into a substitute for wood.
Karnataka Premier League, a Twenty20 tournament on the lines of the Indian Premier League, has attracted 22 bidders, sources in the Karnataka State Cricket Association said after sealed bids were opened on Wednesday.
In the second phase on April 18, 97 seats,spread across 13 states and one Union Territory, will go to the polls.
Former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular supremo Deve Gowda on Monday announced the formation of the Third Front, an amalgamation of eight parties including the Left, and touted as a political alternative to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The innovation called 'blind man's stick' aspires to make life easy for the visually challenged by alerting them if they are stepping on water or into a pit through a multi-lingual voice recorded system.
Actor-filmmaker Feroz Khan will be buried in the Johnson Market burial ground, in Bengaluru, on Monday at 5.30 pm, his brother Sanjay Khan said
With the BSP keen to project her as the newly-formed Third Front's prime ministerial candidate, party supremo Mayawati has invited leaders of the front's constituents to a dinner meeting on March 15 in New Delhi.
President of the Karnataka Congress unit Mallikarjuna Kharge told reporters that Sonia will address public rallies in Bengaluru and Tumkur. Prior to Sonia's visit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too would be in Karnataka and address rallies at both Bengaluru and Mysore on May 6. The Congress also plans to rope in the brother-sister duo of Rahul and Priyanka to campaign. However, the dates of their visit to campaign for the party in Karnataka have not been finalised as yet.
The Karnataka State Reserve Police personnel were staying in a school building.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar-promoted Jupiter Aviation kickstarted the development work at Hassan airport.
The students have now written to their university to involve more students in similar initiatives in the rural areas where they can use their knowledge for development. Agilent is planning to go bigger this year with more students from other institutions to be involved in the education for development drive.
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Polling in the first phase will take place in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts, Tumkur, Mysore, Chikkaballapur, Ramnagar, Mandya, Hassan, Kodagu, Chamarajnagar and Kolar. Polling in the 20,000 booths for the first phase will commence at 7 am and would end by 5 pm.
All the 14 were being produced in local courts for a transit remand to Delhi where they would be questioned extensively by the NIA.
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Notorious criminal and serial rapist Jaishankar, who made a sensational escape from the high-security central prison in Bangalore on September 1, was arrested in Bangalore on Friday.
Online play is a priority now -- so far unthinkable in a business that's all about a meaningful interface with kirana stores.
Manufacture will soon be stopped at Bangalore and Tumkur in Karnataka and Ranibagh in Uttarakhand.
The eminent scientist reached the pinnacle of his glory in 1974 when he led the team that conducted the country's first nuclear test at Pokhran in Rajasthan.
This is the first Cabinet expansion after he assumed office on July 26 and proved his government's majority on the floor of the assembly on July 29.
Mumbai-based couple Jyoti and Shrinath Iyer travelled 4,600 km by bike from Maharashtra to Kerala and back.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
The 17-year-old rallied to make the grade in the Osaka Mayor's Cup tennis tournament
The duo beat the Taipei pair of Ti Chen and Tzuoo Yeu in the ATP Challenger.
The Indian singles challenge in the ATP Challenger ended, with Harsh Mankad losing to Marco Baghdatis.
In a crackdown ahead of Republic Day, the National Investigation Agency has arrested 13 suspected Islamic State sympathisers for plotting attacks in different parts of the country.
The country is all set for the second round of elections on April 18 in the ongoing seven-phase Lok Sabha polls that will elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament. Going to polls in the second phase will be 95 seats in 12 states and one Union Territory. Here is a look at some of the big names contesting in phase two of Lok Sabha elections.
The party has not applied the "one-family, one-ticket" formula for the Karnataka polls which it followed in the Punjab polls held last year.
With inauguration of Tumkur food park, he has ambitious plans in the segment.
Both these online offers are, however, available for a limited period.
In a veiled attack on Bharatiya Janata Party and RSS, Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the opposition does not respect women and their 'ideological sangathan' has no place for them.
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