Election Commission to focus on 5,000 booths in 43 Assembly constituencies to improve polling

April 14, 2024 09:39 pm | Updated 09:39 pm IST - Bengaluru The Election Commission of India is targeting to improve voting percentage in about 5,000 polling booths in Karnataka that have reported a voter turnout below the State’s average of 68%. According to Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka Manoj …...Read More

Lok Sabha polls | In battlefield West U.P., deep-rooted fault lines set tone of poll discourse

April 14, 2024 09:36 pm | Updated 09:36 pm IST - Lucknow There is no dearth of contentious and polarising issues in the crucial battlefield of western Uttar Pradesh, which has a sizable Muslim electorate, and the increasingly vehement nature of political discourse here seems to reflect the deep-rooted communal …...Read More

Jagan bus yatra to be conducted in Rajamahendravaram on April 16

April 14, 2024 09:34 pm | Updated 09:34 pm IST - RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s bus yatra will reach Rajamahendravaram city on April 16. In an official release, Rajamahendravaram MP Maragani Bharat said that the bus yatra would enter the city via Gammon bridge and cover the city....Read More

Zoo summer camp to begin today

April 14, 2024 09:24 pm | Updated 09:24 pm IST - MYSURU The Mysuru zoo is conducting its summer camp this month. Summer Camp 2024 (Batch-1) will be inaugurated on Monday at 10 a.m. at the Zoo Amphitheatre. Summer camp is conducted in two batches with 60 students each in …...Read More

BJP will never fulfil its poll promises, claims CM

April 14, 2024 09:23 pm | Updated 09:23 pm IST - MYSURU Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated in Madikeri on Sunday that the BJP has never fulfilled the promises made to the people during elections and it will also not realise the promises it is making now on the occasion of …...Read More

Minibus carrying football fans overturns in West Yorkshire crash with 17 people injured

Seventeen people were taken to hospital, including seven with serious injuries, after a minibus carrying football fans overturned in West Yorkshire. Police were called after a collision involving the Iris single decker minibus and a black Skoda Fabia on the A1 near Pontefract on Saturday evening. A third vehicle, a …...Read More

Fearing defeat, BJP denied ticket to Simha

April 14, 2024 09:19 pm | Updated 09:33 pm IST - MYSURU Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the BJP did not renominate incumbent MP Prathap Simha from Mysuru parliamentary constituency fearing defeat. Addressing a gathering as part of Janadhwani-2 campaign for Congress candidate M. Lakshman in Madikeri, he said …...Read More

Governor, T.N. officials pay tributes to Ambedkar on his birth anniversary

April 14, 2024 09:19 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST - CHENNAI On the occasion of the birth anniversary of the late architect of the Constitution B.R. Ambedkar on Sunday, Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi paid floral tributes to his portrait at Raj Bhavan in Chennai. Officials of the Tamil …...Read More

HDD takes potshots at CM, Dy. CM

April 14, 2024 09:18 pm | Updated 09:18 pm IST - MYSURU Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda lashed out at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar for talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a flippant manner. Mr. Gowda who shared the stage with Mr. Modi …...Read More

BSY calls on Prasad

April 14, 2024 09:16 pm | Updated 09:16 pm IST - MYSURU A day after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah called on BJP MP V. Srinivas Prasad, it was the turn of former Chief Minister and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa to call on the veteran Dalit leader at the latter’s residence in …...Read More