BJP’s Ananth Kumar retains Bangalore South

June 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Tuesday landed in Karnataka's picturesque hill district of Kodagu for rest after a gruelling Lok Sabha election campaign and an acrimonious debate within the party over the drubbing it received in the polls.

June 18th, 2009 BANGALORE - Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Thursday inducted into his ministry V.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - There might be enthusiasm for young turks like Rahul Gandhi, Priya Dutt, Sachin Pilot and Jyotiraditya Scindia in their states but Karnataka seems to prefer the not-so-young when it comes to electing its Lok Sabha representatives. Out of known youth contestants, including Congress's Krishna Byre Gowda and Tejaswini Gowda, and Chief Minister B.S.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday captured India's IT hub, winning all the three Lok Sabha constituencies, including the newly-constituted Bangalore Central. Though the average voting percentage April 23 in the three parliamentary seats of Bangalore South, Bangalore North and Bangalore Central was the lowest (45.49 percent) in the state, the ruling BJP maintained its winning streak that began in the May 2008 assembly elections when it had bagged 16 of the 28 seats in Bangalore.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Counting of votes cast for the Lok Sabha elections began Saturday morning amid tight security in Karnataka, poll officials said. Even as majority of the 23,000 counting staff began unlocking the 47,578 electronic voting machines (EVMs) at three centres here and 25 centres at district headquarters across the state at 8 a.m., the remaining staff started counting postal ballots first in each constituency.

April 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Congress candidate Krishna Byre Gowda, contesting from the prestigious Bangalore South seat, has alleged that names of about 30,000 voters were found missing in key segments of the parliamentary constituency that went to the polls Thursday. 'I have petitioned the Election Commission to re-survey the areas where names of thousands of voters have been deleted and have demanded re-polling,' Byre Gowda told reporters late Thursday after meeting state chief electoral officer M.N.

April 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Around 15 percent of about 20.6 million eligible voters had cast their ballot by 11 a.m. in 17 of the 28 constituencies in Karnataka in the first round of its two-phase polling Thursday.

April 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Karnataka recorded 50 to 55 percent voting in 17 of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies Thursday with Bangalore registering around 50 percent turnout, election officials said. 'The overall percentage would be around 50 percent and in Bangalore (with three constituencies) it may touch 50 percent,' an official of the state election office said.

April 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Nearly 29,000 polling booths opened at 7 a.m. across 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka Thursday in the first of the two-phase election for the 28 seats in the state.

April 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE - The high-profile Bangalore South parliamentary constituency in India's tech hub is set for an epic battle Thursday between Congress Young Turk Krishna Byre Gowda and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) veteran H.N. Ananth Kumar.

April 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - Candidates contesting in Bangalore south constituency are talking about change and making a difference in their aggressive campaigning ahead of general elections.he fight in the constituency is directly between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Ananth Kumar and the Congress party's Krishna Byre Gowda. However, Captain Gopinath, contesting as an independent, is also very popular and has the capability to cause an upset.

April 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - There is no escaping their unctuous faces and folded hands. Whether one is out on a morning walk, going to the neighbourhood market or simply standing outside your home, the vote seekers - poll candidates, their family members and supporters - are everywhere trying to grab your attention.

April 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary H.N. Ananth Kumar, Congress leader Margaret Alva and former Karnataka chief minister H.D.

April 4th, 2009 BANGALORE - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary H.N. Ananth Kumar has embarked on a novel method to woo voters.

March 31st, 2009 BANGALORE - The Congress Tuesday chose Margaret Alva to fight the Lok Sabha poll from Uttara Kannada constituency in Karnataka, five months after sacking her as general secretary for claiming that party tickets were sold during last year's assembly elections in the southern state. The Congress also sprang a surprise by fielding Karnataka youth Congress president C.