Mysuru: Mysore Race Club (MRC) Eye Hospital will conduct a free cataract screening camp on May 27 at MRC Eye Hospital in city from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. For details, contact Ph: 0821-2472102, according to a press release from the Hospital.
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Modi swearing-in
May 24, 2019Galaxy of leaders including US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping likely to be invited for the gala ceremony to be held on May 28, 29 or 30 New Delhi: A galaxy of top world leaders could be invited to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony for his second…
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Prajwal says he will quit Hassan seat to make way for grandpa
May 24, 2019Hassan: Hassan is the only constituency that the JD(S) has won in Karnataka. However the candidate who won — H.D. Deve Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna — has now claimed he wants to step down from his Parliamentarian post despite his massive victory, saying he had no reason to rejoice as the election brought a crushing…
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It’s a victory of India, victory of Democracy, says PM Modi
May 24, 2019“In the last five years, people have realised that the taxes they are paying has been put to nation-building” New Delhi: Registering a mandate bigger than the 2014 polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA returned to power for a second straight term. The BJP maintained its hold over its core vote base — the Hindi…
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Amit is the ‘Shah’ of Modi’s historic second term win
May 24, 2019“Time for Congress to get an Amit Shah,” tweets Mehbooba Mufti New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi might be the man of the moment for winning the historic second term but it is Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah who is being hailed, even by the rivals, as the man behind the moment. “Time…
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Lotus blooms for first time in Chamarajanagar
May 24, 2019Chamarajanagar: In a closely fought battle in Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Constituency (SC reserved), former Minister and BJP candidate V. Sreenivasa Prasad defeated Congress candidate R. Dhruvanarayan by a slender margin of 1,817 votes. The 71-year-old five-time MP wrested the seat from the Congress in a thrilling finish, thus denying the sitting Congress MP R. Dhruvanarayan…
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Election Snippets: BJP’s C.R. Patil gains biggest victory margin of 6.89 lakh
May 24, 2019New Delhi: Two-time BJP MP C.R. Patil Thursday surpassed the all-time victory margin in Lok Sabha polls as he won the Navsari seat in Gujarat by garnering 6.89 lakh more votes than his rival — the highest margin in 2019 polls. So far, the highest victory margin of 6.96 lakh votes in Lok Sabha polls…
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BJP victory cast dark shadow over Coalition Government
May 24, 2019Bangalore: With the BJP bagging a whopping 25 out of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the State, the BJP’s best show ever has cast a shadow over the longevity of the JD(S)-Congress Coalition Government in the State. The JD(S)-Congress Coalition has a strength of 117 (79 Congress and 38 JD(S)) in the 224 member…
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Sumalatha creates history
May 24, 2019Sumalatha, wife of late Congress leader M.H. Ambarish, defeated Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, in Mandya. What seemed like a neck-and-neck fight in the morning soon turned into a landslide victory for Sumalatha. As an independent candidate backed by BJP, Sumalatha secured 7,03,660 votes while Nikhil Kumaraswamy secured 5,77,784 votes. By defeating…
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EVMs, VVPATs shifted back to storage houses
May 24, 2019Mysore: After over a month-long electoral battle to the 17th Lok Sabha, the entire electoral process ended yesterday for the Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency with counting and shifting of machines to storage houses. All Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines that were used for the counting were shifted back to the…
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