Data | How significant is BJP’s deposit loss in 13.8% of Karnataka’s seats?

Data | How significant is BJP’s deposit loss in 13.8% of Karnataka’s seats?

BJP workers decorating Ballari city with part flags on Friday ahead of party’s Scheduled Tribes conference to be held on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SRIDHAR KAVALI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost deposits in 31 constituencies — 13.8% of the seats the party contested — in the recently concluded Karnataka Assembly elections. Notably, the party … Read more

Morning Digest: May 14, 2023

Morning Digest: May 14, 2023

AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, with Congress leaders Siddaramaiah, D K Shivakumar, Randeep Singh Surjewala, and K. C. Venugopal, during a press conference after the Karnataka assembly elections 2023 results, in Bengaluru on May 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Karnataka Congress Legislature Party meeting set for Sunday Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and KPCC … Read more

Tamil Nadu might become the new hotspot after Karnataka elections: Here’s a look at some of the best luxury resorts

Tamil Nadu might become the new hotspot after Karnataka elections: Here’s a look at some of the best luxury resorts

Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023: While the vote counting for the Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023 is underway in the state. Congress has crossed the halfway mark leading in 124 seats, while BJP has been leading in 74 assembly seats. DK Shivakumar has won the seat but the Congress is not too sure speculating about a race … Read more

JD(S) MLC extends support to Congress in Karnataka Assembly elections

JD(S) MLC extends support to Congress in Karnataka Assembly elections

MLC Marithibbe Gowda addressing a press conference in Mysuru. | Photo Credit: M A Sriram Janata Dal (Secular) MLC Marithibbe Gowda has called for supporting the Congress in the Karnataka Assembly elections on the ground that a decisive verdict will help in the formation of a stable government. Mr. Marithibbe Gowda had rebelled against his … Read more

Congress alleges plot by BJP candidate to kill Kharge & family; saffron party functionary denies charge

Congress alleges plot by BJP candidate to kill Kharge & family; saffron party functionary denies charge

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in Karnataka. | Photo Credit: ANI An assassination plot has been hatched to ‘wipe out’ Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge, his wife and his entire family by a BJP candidate, the party general secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala alleged on May 6. Mr. Surjewala also shared an alleged audio … Read more

Top news in Karnataka today

Top news in Karnataka today

State Election Management Committee convener and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje, State unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, BJP national president J.P. Nadda, former CM B.S. Yediyurappa, former CM D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi release BJP manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly elections, in Bengaluru on May 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: MURALI … Read more

It is an election of generational shift at Shikaripur as BSY makes way for son

It is an election of generational shift at Shikaripur as BSY makes way for son

Goni Malatesh, Congress candidate Shikaripur constituency in Shivamogga district is witnessing a generational shift in the current elections. Former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, 80, who began his career as an MLA in 1983, contested for the Assembly constituency nine times and won eight times, has retired from electoral politics. However, the party is highly dependent … Read more

PM, Home Minister busy with political work, terrorists took advantage of it: Shiv Sena (UBT) on Poonch attack

PM, Home Minister busy with political work, terrorists took advantage of it: Shiv Sena (UBT) on Poonch attack

File photo of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Uddhav Thackeray. The party on April 22 slammed the BJP government | Photo Credit: PTI Slamming the BJP-ruled Centre over the recent terror attack on an Army vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir, the Shiv Sena (UBT) on April 22 said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister … Read more

Karnataka elections 2023 | Congress announces its final list of candidates

Karnataka elections 2023 | Congress announces its final list of candidates

The Congress in the early hours on Thursday released its sixth and final list, announcing candidates for the remaining five constituencies for the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka. Today is the last day for filing nominations. The Congress has nominated B.V. Rajeev Gowda from Sidlaghatta, replacing sitting MLA V. Muniyappa. The other candidates announced … Read more

MTB’s total worth touches ₹1,614.5 crore; DKS declares assets worth ₹1,358 crore

MTB’s total worth touches ₹1,614.5 crore; DKS declares assets worth ₹1,358 crore

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D.K. Shivakumar, Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy, his brother H.D. Revanna, Housing Minister V. Sommana, and B.Y. Vijayendra, son of former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, were among the 842 candidates who filed their nominations for the May 10 Assembly polls on Monday. Aspirants across parties filed their papers … Read more