BELAGAVI: Laxmi Hebbalkar, the women and child welfare minister, accused the BJP leadership of shielding JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna in the sex scandal case for political gain. She urged the BJP leaders to clarify their stance on the scandal and whether they will continue their alliance with JD(S) despite the exposure of such a massive…
BENGALURU: For yet another election, the turnout in the three segments in Bengaluru city in Friday’s Lok Sabha elections was poor at best — even if the final figures were around the same in previous elections. The low turnout is being attributed to a combination of factors that hampered the electoral process and discouraged citizens…
NEW DELHI: Aisshwarya DKS Hegde, the daughter of Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar, expressed her lack of interest in joining politics after casting her vote in Bengaluru on Friday. She stated, “I have no intentions (to join politics). I am an educationist and I am happy doing that. Everyone needs to work in different…
BENGALURU: A 91-year-old woman passed away minutes after casting her vote in Karnataka‘s Hunsur on Friday. Hunsur comes under Mysore Lok Sabha constituency.Despite her advanced age, Puttamma exercised her democratic right. In the Mysore parliamentary constituency of Karnataka, voter turnout reached 25.09% by 11am during the second phase of the Lok Sabha . Source link
KALABURAGI: In an emotional appeal to the people of his home district, Kalaburagi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged them to attend his funeral if they believed he had worked for them, even if they chose not to vote for the party candidate in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The 81-year-old leader expressed that if the…
In this constituency of contrasts, the divide is stark and unyielding. On one side, the glittering tech towers of Bengaluru’s Electronics City soar, housing a cosmopolitan workforce. Venture just a few kilometres away, and a vastly different reality emerges: Parched, barren stretches of Anekal tell a story of neglect.Sprawling across three districts — Bengaluru Urban,…
HASSAN/BENGALURU: As former prime minister HD Deve Gowda’s campaign entourage reached the backyard of Maramma temple at Manchikanahalli here, the nonagenarian asked for his customised jeep to be stopped. He partook in the aarti performed at the temple. Flanked by his grandsons — Suraj and Prajwal Revanna — and helped by security staff, Gowda made…
BENGALURU/HUBBALLI: The murder of a corporator’s daughter on a college campus in Hubballi sparked a row between Congress and opposition BJP in Karnataka, leading to heated responses from the victim’s father, who is a member of Congress.Neha Hiremath, 23, daughter of Congress Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation corporator Niranjan Hiremath, was stabbed to death on the campus…
As the city’s dry spell continues, Bengalureans bring in some comic relief with creative memes. Bengaluru is not Bengaluru-ing like it used to,” sum up netizens on X lately. The city is reeling from its worst-ever water crisis amid a scorching summer — and to make matters worse, the city hasn’t seen a drop of…
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka BJP has come down heavily on the Siddaramaiah-led state government after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two accused in the Rameshwaram cafe blast case on Friday.Read also: NIA arrests Bengaluru cafe blast mastermind, bomber from KolkataThe BJP, in a post on ‘X’, termed the accused as “Brothers of Congress”, saying…
