Jaffer Sharief defeated in Bangalore North

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - With the Karnataka results out, the young voters of India's IT hub are impatient to see the winning candidates work for the overall development of the city. Of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, three are in the capital - Bangalore Central, Bangalore South and Bangalore North.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary H.N. Ananth Kumar retained the Bangalore South seat for the fifth time in a row.

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 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - The electorate of India's IT hub are hoping that they have voted for strong leaders who can help the city overcome the 'twin trouble' of economic slowdown and lack of civic amenities. 'Being India's IT hub, the city is facing the heat of the economic slowdown.

May 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - As the countdown begins for the verdict of the 15th Lok Sabha elections, voters in India's IT hub are hoping they will get strong leaders who can help the city overcome the problems of economic slowdown and lack of civic amenities. 'Bangalore is facing the heat of the economic slowdown.

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 - 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 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Karnataka recorded 51 percent voting in 17 of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies Thursday with Bangalore registering around 50 percent turnout, a top election official said at the end of the 10-hour polling. Only 50 percent of the 2.03 million eligible voters exercised their franchise in the prestigious Bangalore South constituency, Karnataka chief electoral officer M.N.

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 17th, 2009 BANGALORE - Congress star campaigner and general secretary Rahul Gandhi late Friday said the way politics was being conducted had to be changed for the betterment of the country. 'If we have to change things for the betterment of the country, we have to change the way politics of this country works.

April 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Karnataka has a population of over 50 million, of which 40 million are eligible to vote. But political parties, mainly the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have struggled to get fresh candidates for the state's 28 Lok Sabha seats.

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 1st, 2009 BANGALORE - H.T. Sangliana, a former IPS officer who plunged into politics after retiring as a Karnataka 'super cop', is lucky to be nominated for the Lok Sabha elections from India's IT hub despite switching loyalty to the Congress from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

March 29th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Congress is banking on party veterans in Karnataka to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, in spite of young party general secretary Rahul Gandhi preferring a greater role of youth in the grand old party. Two former chief ministers, two state party unit presidents, a former central government minister, all in their late sixties or early seventies, have been nominated for the polls to be held in two phases - April 23 and April 30.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three parliamentarians from Karnataka, suspended from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for supporting the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the 2008 trust vote in parliament, joined the Congress here Tuesday. They claimed they were feeling suffocated in the BJP.