Politics

This is the second floor test in less than a week after BJP strongman B S Yeddyurappa had stepped down last Saturday, two days after he assumed office as the chief minister, without going through the motions of a floor test. The 224-member Assembly has an effective strength of 221, as election for Jayanagar seat was countermanded following the death ...

The fitness challenge given by Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli has been accepted by PM Modi. But after this Congress President Rahul Gandhi issued his own challenge to PM. Rahul Gandhi tweeted a challenge to PM Modi asking the PM to reduce the price of petrol and diesel. Dear PM, Glad to see you accept the @imVkohli fitness challenge. ...

Asserting that the mandate in Karnataka Assembly polls was against the Congress, BJP president Amit Shah today said the party has found a new way of portraying defeat as its victory. Shah also asked the Congress to explain to the people of Karnataka why they were celebrating even when most of their ministers had lost election. “Only Congress and JD(S) ...

The Supreme Court today ordered live telecast of the floor test in the Karnataka Assembly where Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has to prove his majority. The floor test is scheduled for 4 pm. “Live broadcast of floor test will be the best possible way to ensure transparency in the proceedings,” a bench comprising justices A K Sikri, S A ...

BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa yesterday said he will “give it in writing that the saffron party would win the Karnataka Assembly elections with an absolute majority and get 125 to 130 seats. He claimed that there is a strong wave in BJP’s favour. “I have been in Karnataka politics for long… I will give it in writing. ...

The high-stakes Karnataka assembly elections saw a 70 per cent voter turnout today, the Election Commission said in New Delhi. The last assembly election in 2013 had witnessed 71.4 per cent polling, it said. The polling figure is likely to go up as some voters were still queued up at the polling stations after 6 pm. In what is projected ...

With patients from four to five states visiting West Bengal and availing free treatment at state-run hospitals,West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said there should be a policy to ensure costless treatment meant for patients from the state only was not misused. Stating that there should be a separate policy for patients coming from other states for treatment, Banerjee, ...

A massive controversy has rocked Karnataka after nearly 10,000 “fake” voter ID cards were seized from a flat in Rajrajeshwari Assembly seat, prompting the BJP to demand countermanding of the election claiming Congress was behind the racket, a charge dismissed by the latter as a “lie”. With just three days left before Karnataka goes to poll, the BJP and Congress, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched his campaign blitzkrieg in Karnataka, unleashing a blistering attack on Rahul Gandhi and daring him “to speak in any language” for 15 minutes about the achievements of the Siddaramaiah government without reading out from piece of paper. He accused the state’s Congress government, which he claimed was steeped in corruption, of thwarting the Centre’s ...

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb claimed that internet and satellite are not something new but existed since the Mahabharata era. Speaking at a Regional Workshop on Computerisation and Reforms at Pragna Bhawan in Agartala, Deb said that the internet was invented by India lakhs of years ago. “Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata. How ...