Bharathi Shankar

Varuna assembly constituency is witnessing a high-profile electoral battle between Congress's Siddaramaiah, BJP minister V Somanna and and Dr. bharathi shankar of the JD(S).

Achieving success requires commitment, said Shalvapille Iyengar, chairman, department of studies and research in ancient history and archaeology, Karnataka State Open University.

Karnataka State Women's Development Corporation chairperson bharathi shankar created a controversy on Friday, saying women were raped at "unwanted parties, but not at jatres (melas)".

In a blow to several women's self-help groups in the state, which were anticipated to have monopoly over canteen services in the districts, the government will revamp the proposed Savi Ruchi Kaithatu mobile canteens, in the light of the proposed Indira Canteens to be opened across all urban local bodies.

The track list of 'Nalanum Nandhiniyum' has been released ahead of the audio launch on June 1st.

BANGALORE: Liquor baron Vijaya Mallya and former Union minister B Janardhana Poojary were among the five candidates who have jumped into the poll fray for the March 27 biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha to fill up four seats from Karnataka.

The Janata Dal (Secular) on Saturday released a list of six more candidates for the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka. With this, the party has so far released a list of 149 candidates. The first list comprising 93 was released in December last year and 50 on Friday.

It's another packed weekend as far as the Kannada Film Industry is concerned with as many as five films coming out in theatres this Friday, 19th of November.

BANGALORE: Even as the milling crowd of party workers outside the Congress Bhavan on Queens Road created a traffic jam the whole of Tuesday, inside it was meetings galore for AICC general secretary Karnataka in-charge Vayalar Ravi on the second day of his stay.

BANGALORE: High profile industrialist Vijay Mallya was the star attraction in Vidhana Soudha on Thursday. When he turned up at 1.20 pm after speculation whether he would jump into the election fray or not, even Congress workers couldn't help being impressed.

JD(S) on Wednesday announced its third list of 59 candidates for May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka, and has announced support to candidates from other parties in seven seats, including one from the Congress. The party has also replaced candidates in 12 segments from the two lists it had announced earlier.

BANGALORE: The BJP on Saturday reiterated that the party cannot be divided and said the six expelled legislators had voted for industrialist Vijay Mallya following "inducements."

Former minister and president of the Karnataka unit of the JD(S), CM Ibrahim on Wednesday trained his guns at Mysuru MP Pratap Simha, accusing the latter of trying to foment discord between the Vokkaliga and Muslim communities using Tipu Sultan as a straw man.

BANGALORE: The stage has been set for elections to the four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka, with liquor baron Vijay Mallya filing his nomination papers as an independent along with three Congress and one BJP candidate here on Thursday.

As the four-wheel drive split crowds on the freshly tarred road in Hullahalli, the skies, that were dark and heavy on Thursday morning, lightened considerably.

Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, opposition leader Siddaramaiah, former CM Jagadish Shettar, and BY Vijayendra, son of former CM BS Yediyurappa, were among political heavyweights who filed their nomination papers amid great fanfare on Wednesday.

MUMBAI: The only time Suman Chhabria-Addepali speaks to her child in Sindhi, her mother tongue, is while playing 'Gil go ladi', a game she learnt on her mother's lap.

Political hymns to propitiate Lord Varuna (the rain god in Hindu mythology) are reverberating across Varuna assembly constituency where former chief minister Siddaramaiah and his rival, housing minister V Somanna, are hoping to ride to victory on a deluge of votes.