
Did a roll number mix up lead a civil services aspirant to commit suicide? The UPSC, which runs the exams, has denied the allegation and has said IAS aspirant Manjunath never made it through the preliminary test. A 24-year-old IAS aspirant Manjunath committed suicide on Friday in Bangalore after a mix-up in the Civil services examinations result list. ...

07:51 PM, May 13, 2013

Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Monday took oath as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. The 64 year old backward class leader from Mysore took oath at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore on Monday morning, attended by a crowd of about 50,000. ...

05:23 PM, May 13, 2013

NDA ally Shiv Sena has done its own post-mortem of the Karnataka debacle - it says the BJP should have projected Narendra Modi as an outright Hindutva leader instead of trying to project a secular image. ...

03:55 PM, May 12, 2013

In this episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha talks about Parliament stalemate, Karnataka polls result and much more. ...

12:45 PM, May 12, 2013

Catch the day's top stories with Rajdeep Sardesai on India @ 9. ...

11:32 PM, May 10, 2013

Siddaramaiah, who will be taking over as Karnataka CM on Monday, says he was waiting for the opportunity. "Our first priority is to put the administration back on track. People want clean government, we will try to provide it," he said. ...

09:33 PM, May 10, 2013

BJP ex-strongman BS Yeddyurappa, whose party KJP is being seen as one of the primary reasons for BJP's poll defeat in Karnataka, is CNN-IBN's Newsmaker of the Day. ...

11:20 PM, May 09, 2013

The Congress on Thursday dithered on taking action against its two beleaguered ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal. ...

10:02 PM, May 09, 2013

Congress won the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday by a huge margin. ...

11:36 PM, May 08, 2013

Congress won the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday by a huge margin. ...

11:24 PM, May 08, 2013

Congress won the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday by a huge margin. ...

11:13 PM, May 08, 2013

BJP on Wednesday said it was "shocked, upset and unhappy" about the defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections and conceded that BS Yeddyurappa's exit was a factor in the rout. ...

11:12 PM, May 08, 2013

Congress won a simple majority of 121 seats in Karnataka on Wednesday. The BJP suffered a mighty defeat, winning only 40 seats. ...

11:05 PM, May 08, 2013

JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy said his party will sit in the opposition to protect the interest of the state. "We will expose Congress if it will take illegal decisions. I am not disappointed with the result, will analyse the poll results and work to satisfy the people," he said. ...

05:59 PM, May 08, 2013

"We are thankful to voters of Karnataka for this victory," said party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury. She, however, refused to comment on Supreme Court's observation on coal scam. ...

05:54 PM, May 08, 2013

Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar ruled out that BS Yeddyurappa factor was not the main reason behind the defeat of the BJP in elections. "It's the image created in the last few years that has affected us. We are not blaming anyone," he said. ...

05:51 PM, May 08, 2013

Congress won the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday by a huge margin. ...

03:36 PM, May 08, 2013

Expressing disappointment on party's performance in Karnataka elections, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said while the results are a setback for the party, it does not take it on the backfoot. ...

01:55 PM, May 08, 2013

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday took a potshot at the BJP saying now that the former has been defeated in Karnataka match, it will blame the bat, ball and the pitch. ...

01:52 PM, May 08, 2013

Finance Minister P Chidambaram and BJP leader Jaswant Singh were asked by reporters on what it takes for a government to be re-elected. ...

12:47 PM, May 08, 2013