Around 67 per cent voter turnout recorded in Karnataka bypolls

An estimated 67 per cent voter turnout was recorded in three Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies in Karnataka that went to the bypolls on Saturday. The by-elections are seen as a prestigious......

Karnataka by-poll: BJP candidate against CM's wife withdraws

In a major embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Party, two days before the Ramanagara assembly by-poll, its candidate against Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's wife quit the contest on Thursday......

Party-hoppers make it to BJP's first list of candidates for K'tka poll

Most of them are sitting legislators and a few of them also served as ministers in the past.   Most of the party-hoppers, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the May 12 assembly......

'There's no word like Chennai in Tamil'

The Chennai Central train station. Photo: Courtesy, Arian Zwegers/Wikimedia.org ‘Madras is a Tamil word while Chennai is Telugu. Without the English, there would have been no Madras.......