New Delhi: Bengal is looking at a saffron surge as the BJP raced towards an impressive score and was closing the gap fast with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress as votes were counted today. The Trinamool is ahead in 22 of the State’s 42 seats, BJP is ahead in 18. Mamata Banerjee seems set…
Tight Security around counting centre in Mysuru
May 23, 2019Mysore: Even as the counting of votes for the Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha seat began at Maharani’s College of Commerce and Management, Valmiki Road, Paduvarahalli (Vinayakanagar) in city at 8 am today, tight security was provided all around the centre to ensure smooth counting. A Mobile Command Centre vehicle, fitted with a high-definition camera, which can…
By-elections for 22 Assembly seats will decide the fate of TN Govt.
May 23, 2019New Delhi: The entire nation awaits the results of the 17th Lok Sabha election today which is centred around the 542 Lok Sabha seats (voting in Vellore Parliamentary Constituency was cancelled on Apr.16 due to massive cash seizure). However, amid the anticipation over the formation of the next Lok Sabha, 46 Assembly Constituencies across 13…
Mysuru-Kodagu: BJP’s Pratap Simha looks upbeat, C.H. Vijayashankar of Congress keeps mum
May 23, 2019Mysore: Maharani’s College of Commerce and Management on Valmiki Road, which is the counting centre for Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha constituency, was abuzz right from 6 am today as the whole place has been turned into a fortress. Apart from the Polling Officials, it was the Congress-JD(S) coalition candidate C.H. Vijayashankar who arrived as early as…
BBMP Corporator Muniswamy turns giant killer by defeating 7-time MP Muniyappa
May 23, 2019Bengaluru: First-time, BJP’s candidate and BBMP Corporator S. Muniswamy defeated Congress-JD(S) candidate and seventh-time sitting MP K.H. Muniyappa by a huge margin of more than one lakh votes at the elections held to Kolar Lok Sabha Constituency. The results will be announced officially this evening. Many voters of the constituency were stunned when BJP…
BJP takes big lead in Karnataka as Coalition stares at collapse
May 23, 2019Bengaluru: The BJP has taken a huge lead in the national election in Karnataka over the Congress and Janata Dal-Secular alliance, which took power in the State exactly a year ago. The BJP was ahead in 23 of the State’s 28 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress and JD(S) were ahead in only five in early…
Woman suspects grandson’s friend of stealing gold chain
May 23, 2019Mysuru: A woman, suspecting that her grandson’s friend had allegedly stolen her gold chain which was kept in the almirah before she left for a hospital, has lodged a complaint with Hebbal Police in this regard. According to the complaint, the woman, identified as Rathnamma, a resident of Hebbal, was going out of the house…
Week-long Silver Jubilee celebration at Sri Krishnadhama from May 25
May 23, 2019Mysuru: The Silver Jubilee celebrations of Sri Krishnadhama on Sahukar Channaiah Road, Saraswathipuram in city will be held from May 25 to June 1. Announcing this at a press meet here on Monday, Sri Krishna Trust Vice-President P. Jayaram Bhat said that Udupi Pejawar Mutt Seer Sri Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji will inaugurate the event at…
Weekend Shramdaan makes public park plastic and empty liquor bottles-free zone
May 23, 2019Mysore: A group of concerned residents, morning walkers and their family members residing in Vijayanagar 3rd Stage, B & C Block, the adjacent Cauvery Layout, Wildgrass Layout and Bogadi North have made the Public Park in Vijayanagar C-Block and its surrounding area measuring about 6 acres plastic, empty liquor bottles and garbage-free zone by picking…
Counting affects wedding
May 23, 2019Even as the supporters of various candidates at the counting centre in Maharani’s College of Commerce and Management on Valmiki Road were busy with the counting, in the neighbouring Smt. H. Leela Channaiah Kalyan Mantap, the attendance at the marriage of Nagashree from Mysuru and M.D. Arun from Bengaluru was very thin. The couple’s families…















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