Twin districts hit a political jackpot

As the swearing in ceremony of Siddharamaiah, the 22nd chief minister of Karnataka is over, the major speculations ahead in the State's Congress faction is on the ministerial berths. The anxiety is nevertheless has wrapped up the coastal region especially the ...

The constituency which gave the first chief minister from the coastal district of Udupi also was witness to the first Naxalite encounter at Edu . Karkala , home to the 42-foot monolith of Lord Bahubali , the second tallest in the state, is a ...

A survey on how social media can influence election results has found that Facebook users may impact on the outcome of at least 17 Lok Sabha seats out of the 28 in Karnataka including the 12 which have been found to be "high impact" constituencies. The ...

In a major embarrassment to the BJP, a CD has surfaced allegedly showing Udupi MLAKRaghupathy Bhat in an intimate position with an unidentified woman, prompting the two-time legislator to announce his decision not to contest the forthcoming Assembly election.

(05/08/2013) Close 11:28 12:48 @kiranshaw@IndiaToday Don't blame Modi - No magic can work on a Govt that fails the people. Congress can have same fate if they don't deliverThursday May 9, 2013 12:48 kiranshaw 12:38 Srivatsa Krishna@SrivatsaKrishnaAs ...

India News: Karnataka polls: BJP battered in its bastions. The saffron party has suffered a humiliating defeat in the Assembly elections by winning just 40 seats. ­The first government of the Bharatiya Janata Party in South India has failed to ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi today praised the party's showing in Karnataka polls, saying the result was a rejection of BJP's idealogy and suggested the same would be repeated in the Lok Sabha ...

The verdict 2013 will be out by 2 pm on Wednesday, ending the suspense on who will secure the people's mandate to form the next government in the State. All exit polls are unanimous in predicting that the Congress will emerge as the single largest party in ...

The elections to the Karnataka Assembly on May 5 seems to hold few surprises. The writing on the wall is that the ruling BJP is in decline. That the man who led it to power—B.S. Yeddyurappa, who, after a bitter power struggle, quit to form the ...