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The Congress on Wednesday won the Jayanagar assembly seat. According to election officials, Congress' Sowmya Reddy secured 54,457 votes against her nearest rival from the BJP, B N Prahlad, who managed 51,568 votes.
The 15-day-old HD Kumaraswamy ministry in Karnataka was expanded on Wednesday with the induction of 25 ministers. Fourteen ministers are from the Congress, nine from its ...
The Janata Dal Secular (JDS)-Congress combine won a trust vote in the Karnataka assembly moments after the opposition BJP staged a dramatic walkout, throwing a dare at ch...
Just before the floor test, Congress' Ramesh Kumar was elected as the speaker after the BJP candidate withdrew his nomination. Nearly a week after the BJP's BS ...
24, May 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka in Bengaluru where, in a show of unity ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, more than a dozen Opposition leaders were invited.Read News
20, May 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
B S Yeddyurappa resignation paved the way for the formation of a Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) government headed by H D Kumaraswamy, who has been invited to form a government and will be sworn-in on Wednesday.Read News
19, May 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
The BJP's BS Yeddyurappa today quit as Chief Minister just before a trust vote that, many said, he had a good chance of losing. Till an hour before the Supreme Court-ordered floor test, there was commotion over two Congress lawmakers who were missing from the assembly.Read News
19, May 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
Live-streaming of the Karnataka floor test is the best way to ensure transparent proceedings, the Supreme Court said today, rejecting a Congress petition to remove BJP's KG Bopaiah as interim speaker for Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa's trust vote.Read News
18, May 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
BS Yeddyurappa, who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka on Thursday, has to prove his majority in the state assembly on Saturday at 4 pm, the Supreme Court said.Read News
17, May 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
BJP's BS Yeddyurappa takes oath as Karnataka Chief Minister in the name of farmers as the crowd cheers 'Modi Modi'. The Congress had termed Karnataka Governor's decision to invite BJP to form government as 'murder of democracy and trampling of Constitution'.Read News
After concoctions of every order, Congress-JDS combine has finally crossed the last hurdle for forming government in Karnataka. With BS Yeddyurappa stepping down as the Chief Minister before the confidence vote, Congress's winning combination of strategies seems to have saved them the electoral loss of the state.
PM Narendra Modi has delivered a huge win for his party, proving that his popularity remains undiminished in an election that was seen as a primer for the national electi...
Karnataka has been atypical - it has not returned the ruling party to power in the last three decades. The big question now is, will chief minister Siddaramaiah buck this...
The much awaited Gujarat verdict is pronounced and BJP has romped home with a wafer thin majority thereby creating history in India's electoral journey by winnin...
19, Dec 2017, by : FnF Desk
During his campaign for the 2017 Gujarat elections, Rahul Gandhi's temple run mostly skirted areas where the minority vote lay. Even when passing through such areas, he breezed through, waving at crowds from his vehicle. Read News
31, Oct 2017, by : FnF Desk
Winston Churchill's observation that America can be depended upon to do the right thing after it has tried all the other alternatives is applicable to most countries. Read News
27, Oct 2017, by : FnF Desk
The biggest challenge and the top priority in Kashmir are to deradicalize Kashmiri youth and militants and prevent it from turning into a Syria of India, says Dineshwar Sharma, the newly-named interlocutor for talks in Jammu and Kashmir.Read News
30, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
Nitish Kumar in his earlier stint as the chief minister, had become a larger than life figure because of his success in controlling lawlessness in the state and preparing the ground for development. As a result, he was even seen as a possible player on the national stage.Read News
16, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
Nitish Kumar is in a bind. He knows that the mahagathbandhan or grand alliance in Bihar is fraying at the edges, but he doesn't know which way to turn. Read News
09, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
It is strange that despite past examples of the incendiary potential of linguistic chauvinism, politicians still pursue the same fateful path.Read News
by : Priti Prakash
Its just few months before the 2019 general elections will be declared. Political parties have sound...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
A very few in late fifties have grand mothers and I had and her name was Shrimati Parvati Sahu. She ...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
