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One year jail for fake voters in Karnataka poll
Bangalore, May 9 : Anyone impersonating a genuine voter in the Karnataka assembly election starting Saturday will be jailed for up to one year.
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Over 150,000 election, security officials for Karnataka
Bangalore, May 9: A hundred thousand election officials and nearly 60,000 police and paramilitary personnel Friday spread out in 89 constituencies in 11 southern districts of Karnataka to conduct the first phase Saturday of the elections to pick a 224-member assembly.
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Fractured verdict threw up hung assembly in 2004
Bangalore, May 9: The last assembly election in Karnataka, held in April-May 2004 along with Lok Sabha poll, resulted in a fractured verdict for the first time in the history of the state legislature.
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Over 220 seats but few key personalities
Bangalore, May 9 : Karnataka goes to polls from Saturday to elect a 224-seat assembly. But very few are considered key constituencies.
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Odds favour Congress in Karnataka's first phase of poll
By Fakir Balaji, Bangalore, May 9 : The stage is set for a battle of nerves Saturday between an upbeat Congress and a defensive Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in the first phase of Karnataka election where the fortunes of about 950 candidates will be decided by 17.3 million voters in 89 constituencies across 11 southern districts.
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Congress confident of coming back to power in Karnataka
Bangalore, May 9 : The Congress Party has evinced confidence of winning maximum number seats in the Karnataka state Assembly polls.
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Karnataka governor's clearance to road project stayed
Bangalore, May 8 : The Election Commission Thursday stayed the Karanataka governor's clearance for the controversial Bangalore-Mysore corridor project on the ground that it violated the model code of conduct now in force ahead of the assembly elections.
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Krishna rules himself out of CM race in Karnataka
Bangalore, May 8: Senior leader SM Krishna, the face of the Congress for these assembly elections in Karnataka, has declared himself out of the race for the coveted post of Chief Minister if party comes to power.
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'Karnataka lost its reputation due to greed, lust for power'
Bangalore, May 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called for stable government in poll bound Karnataka, and said that the state has lost its reputation due to "greed" and "lust" for power.
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Karnataka has no room for BJP-JD (S) style of political opportunism: Moily
By Mrityunjay Singh, Bangalore, May 8 : Senior Congress party leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Wednesday that the political opportunism practiced by the previous BJP-JD (S) State Government had provided the people the clarity as to which party to vote into power during the three-phased Assembly elections to be held this month.
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Campaigning ends for first phase of Karnataka poll
Bangalore, May 8: Public campaigning for 89 Karnataka assembly seats going to the polls in the first phase Saturday ended Thursday evening.
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Vote Congress to save Bangalore: PM
Bangalore, May 8 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday exhorted the electorate in this tech city of India to vote for the Congress and save this "symbol of a new India" from "opportunistic" parties whose governments had dented its global brand by neglecting its infrastructure development.
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Karnataka Assembly polls, campaigning ends Thursday for first phase
Bangalore, May 8 : Campaigning for the first phase of Karnataka Assembly polls will ends this evening as 89 constituencies of the 224 member house spread over 11 Districts will go to the polls on Saturday.
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Karnataka set to vote in nationally crucial election
By V.S. Karnic, Bangalore, May 8: More than 40 million voters in Karnataka are eligible to elect a new state assembly in three phases from Saturday in an electoral battle that has assumed national importance.
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Sabeel returns from Britain, shielded from media
Bangalore, May 8 : Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed, who had pleaded guilty to withholding information about his elder brother Kafeel Ahmed's plot to blow up Glasgow airport, returned here early Thursday after spending over 10 months in a British jail.
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Political novice Mamatha banks on father Hegde's legacy to win
By Fakir Balaji, Ramanagaram (Karnataka), May 8 : She might have a tough opponent in H.D. Kumaraswamy, former chief minister and son of the still powerful former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda.
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Sonia cautions Karnataka voters against fractured mandate
Bangalore, May 7 : Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday cautioned the electorate in Karnataka against giving a fractured mandate again in the state assembly election that gets underway Saturday in the first phase.
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Karnataka BJP promises Muslim minister
Bangalore, May 7: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has not fielded a single Muslim candidate for the upcoming assembly polls in Karnataka, Wednesday appealed for minority votes promising to induct a Muslim into its ministry if elected to power.
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Relieved parents await Sabeel's return from Britain
Bangalore, May 7 : The elderly parents of Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed, who was found guilty of withholding information on last year's terror plot in Britain and was being deported Wednesday night, say they are relieved that he is returning home at last.
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Bank loans light up rural Karnataka with solar power
By Joydeep Gupta, New Delhi, May 7 : Over 100,000 people in Karnataka's villages have benefited in the last five years after banks started providing loans for solar lighting at low interest rates, a UNEP official has said.
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Old Jain centre Karkala remains an enigma
By K.G. Vasuki, Karkala (Karnataka), May 7 : This small town on the foothills of Western Ghats in Karnataka, known for a giant statue of Jain saint Bahubali, is slowly waking up for the Assembly elections on May 22 .
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Mahatma Gandhi looks on as Karnataka witnesses political drama
By K.G. Vasuki, Mangalore, May 7 : As Karnataka undergoes the State Assembly elections on Saturday (May 10), a Gandhi Temple, first ever in the country, stands a spectator to all the theatrics of political leaders.
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Lawbreakers aspire to be lawmakers in Karnataka
By K.G.Vasuki, Bangalore, May 7 : It is significant that about 47 candidates who are contesting in the first phase of Karnataka assembly elections have criminal records and 82 candidates have declared total assets amounting to whopping rupees 481.2 crores (4.812 billion rupees).
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Election Commission to hold all party meeting in Bangalore
Bangalore, May 7 : The Election Commission (EC) will meet leaders of all political parties here on Wednesday to make a final assessment of the arrangements for the first phase of the Karnataka Assembly polls slated for May 10.
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Criminalisation in politics worries electoral watchdog in Karnataka
By K.G.Vasuki, Bangalore, May 7 : The first round of the three-phased Karnataka Assembly polls boasts of 47 candidates with criminal cases filed against them.
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Modi asks Karnataka electorate to vote for BJP
Bangalore, May 6 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi late Tuesday urged the people of Karnataka to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the forthcoming assembly polls, saying an unstable government in the past was the reason for the crumbling infrastructure in India's silicon hub.
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BJP to harp on price rise issue in Karnataka electioneering
NEW DELHI, May 6: Irked over the Karnataka Election Commission's decision to delete all references to price rise in one of its TV advertisements, the BJP has said that it will not cow down before such action and continue to raise the issue in public platforms.
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Cricket and curbs rob colour from Karnataka poll (Letter from Bangalore)
By V.S. Karnic, Bangalore, May 6: Searing temperatures in the day, Twenty20 cricket in the evening, campaign curbs and the absence of a single emotive issue to stir people... the combination of many factors have turned the electoral battle for Karnataka into a drab affair.
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Campaigning in full swing for first phase of Karnataka Assembly polls
Bangalore, May 6 : Campaigning for the first phase of Karnataka Assembly polls is in full swing as ten Districts go for polls this Saturday. Several Union Ministers are arriving here today to campaign.
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Congress candidates exude confidence ahead of Karnataka polls
Bangalore, May 6 : Candidates representing the Congress party in the forthcoming Karnataka Assembly elections are confident about their party's performance.
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Karnataka politicians woo voters in parks, places of worship
Bangalore, May 6: The changing Bangalore landscape, with single-storey houses making way for high rise apartment blocks, is forcing assembly poll contestants to seek new ways of reaching the voters.
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JD-S promises free cooking gas to poor in Karnataka
Bangalore, May 5 : The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) Monday promised to distribute free cooking stove and supply free cooking gas to the poor in poll-bound Karnataka, a waiver of home loans for lower income groups, job reservation to Kannadigas in IT and BT sectors and pension to retired Muslim clerics.
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19 nominations rejected in Gulbarga
Bangalore, May 5: As many as 174 nominations, including that of Former Chief Minister N Dharam Singh and KPCC President Mallikarjuna Kharge, were found valid and 19 nominations rejected during scrutiny of papers for 13 Assembly seats in Gulbarga District for the third phase of Karnataka Assembly elections.
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Sibal asks voters to vote judiciously
Mysore, May 5: Union Minister and AICC Media Convenor Kapil Sibal today appealed to the people of Karnataka to chose judiciously between developmental and opportunistic policies in the coming Assembly elections.
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Pejavar mutt to spend Rs 5 lakh for providing amenities
Udupi, May 5: Vishvesha Thirtha Swamiji of Udupi Pejavar mutt today said that the mutt was contemplating to spend about Rs five lakh for providing basic amenities in the Naxal-prone areas in Chikmagalore district of Karnataka.
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Sibal appeals to chose judiously in impending assembly elections
Mysore, May 5: Union Minister and AICC media convenor Kapil Sibal today appealed to the people of Karnataka to chose judiciously between developmental and opportunistic policies in the impending assembly elections.
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Inflation not to affect poll prospects in Karnataka : Congress
New Delhi, May 5: The Congress today said the issue of headline inflation would not work against it in the coming elections to the state assembly in Karnataka as was evident from the rejection of the BJP-sponsored "Bharath Bandh" by the people on April 2 on the price rise issue.
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Nanjangud sets stage for Prasad's 'entry' into Karnataka politics
Mysore, May 5: The Nanjangud Assembly segment in the district, converted to a reserved constituency after the delimitation exercise, is in the limelight with former Union Minister V Srinivas Prasad making his entry into Karnataka politics by contesting from the constituency as a Congress candidate in the coming Assembly elections.
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Karnataka Dist might throw up interesting results
Mangalore, May 5: The Dakshina Kannada District in Karnataka is expected to throw mixed results much against all permutations and combinations of different political parties during the three-phase Assembly elections starting May 10 in the state due to delimitation of constituencies.
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Krishna blames BJP-JD(S) for mid-term poll in Karnataka
Mandya, May 5: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Senior Congress leader S M Krishna today blamed the previous BJP-JD(S) coalition government for imposing the forthcoming mid-term Assembly polls on the people of the state.

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