Mysuru: Three-tier security has been provided at Maharani’s College of Commerce and Management in Vinayakanagar (Paduvarahalli) where the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) machines and the Control Units are stored in strong rooms. Votes were polled across eight Assembly segments (Chamaraja, Narasimharaja, Krishnaraja, Chamundeshwari, Hunsur, Periyapatna, Virajpet and Madikeri) that…
Thousands of women from hinterlands push up voter turnout to a surprise 80.23% !!! Mandya: The first phase of polling in 14 Constituencies of Karnataka went off peacefully and yet again, Mandya was the most-watched contest and in the test of democracy, the Constituency passed with flying colours. True to its top billing, Mandya, where…
Mysuru: A day after the elections to the Mysuru-Kodagu Parliamentary Constituency, BJP and Congress candidates Pratap Simha and C.H. Vijayashankar were seen in a relaxed mood along with their family members at their homes this morning. Pratap Simha and his wife Arpitha Simha were exhausted after a hectic campaign schedule since the past 15 days…
Mysuru: With the polls for 14 Lok Sabha (LS) Constituencies in the southern part of the State ending yesterday, the figures after the end of the polling show a marked increase in poll percentage in Mysuru-Kodagu, Hassan, Chamarajanagar and Mandya LS segments of Mysuru region as compared to the previous Lok Sabha polls in 2004…
State Chief Electoral Officer to order probe into deleted names from voters list Mysuru: The issue of voters’ names going missing, a common complaint, returned to haunt this Lok Sabha elections too, particularly in several areas of Mysuru. A substantial number of voters holding ID cards issued by the Election Commission could not exercise their…
Mysuru: Just a day after the polling for Mysuru-Kodagu LS seat ended, Krishnaraja BJP MLA S.A. Ramdas has alleged blackmail by some persons posing as journalists. Addressing a press meet at a private hotel in city this morning, Ramdas said that in the run up to the elections, one M. Pradeep alias Madhu Kumar, claiming…
New Delhi: Since the announcement of the dates of the Lok Sabha elections in March, enforcement agencies have seized cash and contraband amounting to Rs. 2,600 crore as of Apr. 17 when compared to the Rs. 1,200 crore during the general election in 2014. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora confirmed that the total seizure…
Bengaluru: Former PM H.D. Deve Gowda, who has contested the election from Tumkur Parliamentary Constituency yesterday said, “I will sit by Rahul Gandhi’s side if he becomes Prime Minister.” “I announced three years back that I will not contest elections. There are circumstances now in which I have been forced to contest. There is nothing…
Mysuru: A KSRTC bus transporting EVMs to a de-mustering centre in city after polling for Lok Sabha polls ended yesterday, caught fire causing tension for some time on Thursday evening. The KSRTC bus was transporting EVMs from Booth Nos. 242 and 245 in Chamundeshwari Assembly segment of Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency to the de-mustering centre…
Mysuru: The efforts by the Mysuru Hotel Owners’ Association to increase voter turnouts in the Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha constituency by offering discounts on eatables has evoked a great response from the voters. 74 hotels in city had offered special discounts which in turn boosted the voter turnout. The first time voters above the age of…
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