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The BJP is expected to finalise its list of candidates for the May 5 Assembly polls at its election committee meet in Delhi on Thursday. Sources said that Sri Rama Sene founder Pramod Muthalik is likely to get a ticket from Belgaum (north) constituency in ...

After seven years out of power in Karnataka, the Congress has stormed back into power in the southern state, apparently with a small but clear majority of seats in the 224-member assembly. The incumbent is struggling to escape the ignominy of a ...

It's been a whitewash for the BJP in Karnataka's coastal districts -- Dakshina Kannada, home to Mangalore, and Udupi. In Dakshina Kannada, the BJP lost all the eight Assembly segments to the Congress and in Udupi, it won just a single seat out of ...

Beauty, we know, lies in the eyes of the beholder. But if the beholder happens to be the Saudi Arabian government, this can have rather unexpected consequences. The kingdom has deported three men who were attending the annual Jenadrivah Heritage & ...

(From left to right) Megha, Adwitiya, Prachi, Shruthi | EPS A girls night out for the outgoing batch of promising young members of judiciary turned into a nightmare on April 12 when a batch of female students were victims of moral-policing and ...

The writer has posted comments on this article Ravi UpparRavi Uppar , TNN | Apr 11, 2013, 05.38 AM IST RELATED BELGAUM: With discontent brewing in BJP and Congress over ticket distribution, both parties are in a fix over pacifying rebels. Also the ...

Countercurrents.org Ur-Fascism [Eternal Fascism] is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be much easier for us if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Blackshirts to parade again ...

Full text of the JP Memorial Lecture —New Social Movements, New Perspectives —delivered on March 23, 2013. We stand at an electrifying and exciting moment of history, when new forces are coming into view through a range of movements, shaking the ...

This is the first big break we've got," said an exultant Congress member of legislative Assembly from Karnataka, "if they mess even this up..." He didn't use the word "mess". By "they", he meant the three big guns in the Congress from Karnataka: ...