It was an extremely sultry afternoon by Bangalore standards. The Congress office on Queens's road, deserted till the second half of the counting day, was ...
06:58 AM, May 14, 2013
Bangalore: The BJP was on Wednesday decimated in the Karnataka Assembly Elections with Congress set to form a government, may be on its own, wresting power after a gap of seven years. The BJP's southern fort where it came to power for the first time in 2008 crumbled and the party is pushed to the third position behind JD(S). Exploiting the split in BJP and the spoiler's role played by...
12:50 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda led JDS, which had hoped to play the role of a kingmaker in Karnataka, on Wednesday said it would sit in the Opposition. "..if people have blessed us to sit in the opposition, we will sit in the opposition," JDS state President and Gowda's son HD Kumaraswamy told reporters, as the results of the May five Assembly polls came in. The JD(S) is...
12:30 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa dealt a body blow to the ruling BJP as it appeared set to slump to the third position behind the JDS, as the Congress was struggling towards majority in the Karnataka Assembly, latest trends showed. With trends available for all 223 seats which went to polls on May five, Congress was leading in 111 and has won 7 seats, followed by the JDS leading...
11:20 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: With initial trends available for 221 constituencies of the total 223 which went to polls on May five, the Congress was leading in 105 segments, and has won 7 seats and the ruling BJP is leading in 35. JDS of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda was ahead in 42 constituencies and Karnataka Janatha Paksha of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in 14 segments. Initial trends suggested that the...
11:10 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Counting of votes for the recently held Assembly Elections in Karnataka began this morning amid projections about the Congress' comeback to power after an eight-year-long hiatus. The single phase poll was held on May 5 for 223 of the 224 constituencies with the poll in Periyapatna put off following the death of a BJP candidate. Counting was taken up on Wednesday morning under tight security at 36 centres and...
10:50 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The Income Tax department has conducted searches on the premises of Janata Dal Secular candidate and former minister A Krishnappa and seized Rs 2.6 crore in cash, besides jewellery worth Rs 1.88 crore. "Rs 2.65 crore has been seized from the premises of A Krishnappa, an MLA after I-T searches were conducted yesterday (Thursday). He is contesting from the Hiryur Assembly constituency of the state. Jewellery worth Rs 1.88...
01:16 PM, May 03, 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
Mysore: There are just 10 days to go for the Assembly elections as CNN-IBN's Karnataka Yatra reaches battlefield Mysore. Politics revolves around caste lines in modern day Mysore. Fertile agricultural land being turned into residential plots and apartments is one of the first sights that hit one as they drive into Mysore. Farmers like Samy Gowda have all sold their lands to realtors and they say in the area which...
09:53 AM, Apr 25, 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
Bangalore: Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda-led JDS on Friday announced its first list of candidates for the May 5 Karnataka Assembly elections. Former chief minister and sitting MP HD Kumaraswamy and his wife Anitha will both be contesting. She will be fielded from Channapatna - known as the stronghold of former minister CP Yogeshwar who has quit the BJP. On March 31, the party had said that it would...
06:17 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda-led JDS on Sunday said the party would announce its list of candidates for the May 5 Karnataka assembly elections by the second week of next month. ...
03:41 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The actor joined the Janata Dal S because she was fond of the party principles. ...
05:51 PM, Mar 04, 2013
As many as 21 of the 118 BJP MLAs in the 225-member Karnataka Assembly came out in support of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and attended a breakfast meeting at his residence recently. ...
12:37 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Tumkur: UP Chief Minister Mayawati had sent her aide Sathishchandra Mishra as her representative on March 12, 2009 when the JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda put up the United National Progressive Alliance (Third Front) samavesha at Dabbaspet. The samavesha was ahead of LS polls forging an alliance of 10 parties against the two national parties-the BJP and the Congress. The former prime minister was anticipating that the Dalit icon...
01:15 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Bangalore: The JD(S) on Sunday made an attempt to clear the doubts of Muslim leaders over the partys 2006 alliance with the BJP in 2006. Addressing Muslim leaders from all across the state, JD (S) supremo Deve Gowda admitted that his son, former chief minister H D Kumarswamy had made a mistake by joining hands with the BJP to form a government. Gowda blamed the Congress for this. My son...
12:22 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI(M) has shared its views on the upcoming Vice Presidential election with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who called CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat to discuss the matter. "He (Singh) spoke to me about three days ago. He wanted my opinion and I gave my opinion on the matter," Karat told PTI here. Though some names are understood to have been discussed during the telephone conversation, Karat refused...
02:24 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Bangalore: The BS Yeddyurappa faction on Saturday launched a blistering attack on Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda accusing him of being influenced by the opposition Janata Dal (Secular) and not taking the state ministers into confidence. A day after nine ministers tendered their resignation, the faction sought to highlight the reasons for their action, ruled out "compromise" and reiterated that making their nominee Jagadish Shettar chief minister of the state...
05:33 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Bangalore: Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Deve Gowda on Thursday announced his party's support to UPA's Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee. Deve Gowda said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had sought his support after the Congress core committee cleared the name of Mukherjee, who himself called him two days ago. "I told the Prime Minister that I will stand by the UPA candidate", the JDS supremo, who has not been keeping...
02:37 PM, Jun 21, 2012
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