DK Shivakumar, one of the most powerful Vokkaliga leaders and a six-time MLA was in the race for the Chief Minister's post till last week. ...
09:50 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday got majority in Karnataka and ousted the BJP to form the government in the state after seven years. The BJP suffered a humiliating defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections as Congress appeared to be well on its way to wresting power on its own. Hit by the exit of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and the image of corruption during its tenure in the...
02:59 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The Congress is all set to form the government in Karnataka and is close to the halfway mark in the 224-member Assembly. The voting was held in 223 seats because voting in Periyapatna constituency was postponed until May 28 following the death of the BJP candidate. The counting of votes is being held in 36 centres across Karnataka. With the high voter turnout (57 per cent in Bangalore and...
11:09 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Wednesday, May 8, will be the D-day in the big battle for Karnataka. The countdown has begun for the counting day, and with the high voter turnout (57 per cent in Bangalore and 70 per cent and above in the rest of Karnataka) being an indication of a strong anti-incumbency wave, a tussle on who will be Chief Minister has already begun in the Congress, even as other parties...
12:02 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Wednesday, May 8, will be the D-day in the big battle for Karnataka. The countdown has begun for the counting day, and with the high voter turnout (57 per cent in Bangalore and 70 per cent and above in the rest of Karnataka) being an indication of a strong anti-incumbency wave, a tussle on who will be Chief Minister has already begun in the Congress, even as other parties...
09:48 PM, May 07, 2013
Bangalore: After keeping everybody in the state guessing for months, former Chief Minister and External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is now vigorously campaigning for the Congress. SM Krishna, who has been in the electoral politics since 1962 is campaigning for a record 12th time. SM Krishna and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, who are the two senior most political leaders of Karnataka are once again campaigning against each others...
07:35 PM, Apr 30, 2013
If you want to know how to complicate an easy thing, you better ask the Congress high command in New Delhi. Karnataka voters were strongly in favour of the Congress just a month ago. Urban local body results also proved that Congress was on the upswing. Sensing certain victory, all kinds of people started lobbying for Congress tickets and the so called high command in Delhi started behaving in a...
07:10 PM, Apr 16, 2013
1989 Polls: - The ruling party has always lost in Karnataka since 1985. - Janatha Party government between 1985-89 had two Chief Ministers (Ramakrishna Hegde and SR Bommai). State was put under the President's rule by the PM Rajiv Gandhi in May 1989. Janatha Party lost miserably in 1989 polls. It won just 24 seats. In 1985, it had 135 seats. Congress registered a landslide victory by winning 178 seats....
04:30 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Bangalore: The real estate lobby entered the Karnataka state politics in the late 90s. CNN-IBN takes a look at some of the richest candidates in the fray for this year's Assembly polls, many of them from the real estate business. Priyakrishna is the richest candidate in the fray and also one of the youngest. When he successfully contested an Assembly by-poll at the age of 25, his declared assets value...
09:07 AM, Apr 12, 2013
First things first. The BJP can see the writing on the wall and realise that the urban local body poll results are the beginning of ...
06:24 PM, Mar 15, 2013
With Kamal Haasan's request to meet the most powerful person in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, being turned down, the iconic actor has turned to the people. Now that the Madras High Court, in a ruling that overturned a judge's order, has said 'Vishwaroopam' cannot open till February 6, left with no option, Haasan says he will leave Tamil Nadu. ...
07:06 PM, Jan 30, 2013
A midnight statement three years ago on the formation of Telangana, by the then Home Minister P Chidambaram, that was aimed at ending TRS chief K Chandrashekhara Rao's fast unto death opened a pandora's box. But just a few days later the Centre went back on its word by appointing a committee headed by Justice BN Srikrishna to decide on a separate state of Telangana. ...
01:54 PM, Jan 29, 2013
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi and his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi, who is a Lok Sabha member, have ruled Hyderabad with an iron fist, and have made a reputation for controversy. Their party, the MIM, is small, but large in its influence through Andhra Pradesh. ...
06:23 PM, Jan 08, 2013
'Fasi do, Fasi do - death to rapists, death to rapists' - slogans continue to rent the air at India Gate to Vijay Chowk. Young ...
10:33 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Being the BJP's lone MLA in the state Assembly 25 years ago to BJP's first chief minister in the entire South, BS Yeddyurappa has seen it all. This powerful public orator and a political organiser has single-handedly built the saffron party in Karnataka over the past 30 years. It was not a small achievement in a state, which was completely opposed to the right wing politics till the mid 1990s....
11:33 AM, Nov 30, 2012
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