Bangalore Civic Polls

Manjunath Narayana Reddy of the Congress is Bengaluru's new Mayor. In a close contest today, he edged out the BJP's Manjunath Raju by just three votes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hailed the BJP's winning show in the Bengaluru civic polls, saying people's faith in his party "is humbling and gladdening".

In Congress-ruled Karnataka, capital Bengaluru has picked the BJP again to fix its chronic civic problems, handing the party a majority in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP, that it has controlled for the last five years.

Voting for Bengaluru's municipal body known as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike or BBMP ended today with less than 50 per cent voter turnout, underscoring once again the city's apathy to polls.

Bengaluru is voting today to elect its civic body, amid major concerns of traffic and cleanliness faced by its residents, in a high-prestige political battle. Till 12 noon, just 11 per cent of the electorate had come out to vote.

Residents of the Garden City were in for a visual treat on Wednesday afternoon. Lotus flowers blossomed across a section of Bengaluru's dirt-ridden old airport road.

With the municipal elections due this Saturday, the residents of Bengaluru are thinking more than usual about the civic challenges faced by the city. A garden city that first turned into the country's IT capital, became a pensioner's paradise, and is now a startup town.

With familiar-sounding promises to clear out the garbage on streets, fix traffic jams, mend potholes and clean up filthy lakes, aspirants for the Bengaluru civic polls have jumped into the fray. Their first task at hand? Raise the offensive on opponents.

Bengaluru will vote this weekend for civic body polls being held at a time the IT city is angry about a garbage crisis and polluted lakes. The results will be declared next Tuesday.

In a blow for the ruling BJP just two months before Assembly elections are held in Karnataka, the Congress has won big in the state's urban local body elections, bettering its 2007 numbers. The big flop of the election - BS Yeddyurappa.

Karnataka on Thursday will see polling for 208 urban local bodies whose outcome is being seen as a referendum on the BJP's corruption-scarred rule in the state, ahead of assembly elections due in May.

The ruling BJP in Karnataka has captured the Bangalore city corporation for the first time, wresting the civic body from Congress in fiercely contested polls held last week.

The government has banned sale of liquor in Bangalore from Friday to ensure the civic polls pass smoothly without any incident.

Life has been one crazy drive for the last two days for Milind Dharmasena, one of the star campaigners of the state JD (S) unit.

The Supreme Court has cleared the decks for holding municipal elections in Bangalore.

Manjunath Narayana Reddy of the Congress is Bengaluru's new Mayor. In a close contest today, he edged out the BJP's Manjunath Raju by just three votes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hailed the BJP's winning show in the Bengaluru civic polls, saying people's faith in his party "is humbling and gladdening".

In Congress-ruled Karnataka, capital Bengaluru has picked the BJP again to fix its chronic civic problems, handing the party a majority in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP, that it has controlled for the last five years.

Voting for Bengaluru's municipal body known as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike or BBMP ended today with less than 50 per cent voter turnout, underscoring once again the city's apathy to polls.

Bengaluru is voting today to elect its civic body, amid major concerns of traffic and cleanliness faced by its residents, in a high-prestige political battle. Till 12 noon, just 11 per cent of the electorate had come out to vote.

Residents of the Garden City were in for a visual treat on Wednesday afternoon. Lotus flowers blossomed across a section of Bengaluru's dirt-ridden old airport road.

With the municipal elections due this Saturday, the residents of Bengaluru are thinking more than usual about the civic challenges faced by the city. A garden city that first turned into the country's IT capital, became a pensioner's paradise, and is now a startup town.

With familiar-sounding promises to clear out the garbage on streets, fix traffic jams, mend potholes and clean up filthy lakes, aspirants for the Bengaluru civic polls have jumped into the fray. Their first task at hand? Raise the offensive on opponents.

Bengaluru will vote this weekend for civic body polls being held at a time the IT city is angry about a garbage crisis and polluted lakes. The results will be declared next Tuesday.

In a blow for the ruling BJP just two months before Assembly elections are held in Karnataka, the Congress has won big in the state's urban local body elections, bettering its 2007 numbers. The big flop of the election - BS Yeddyurappa.

Karnataka on Thursday will see polling for 208 urban local bodies whose outcome is being seen as a referendum on the BJP's corruption-scarred rule in the state, ahead of assembly elections due in May.

The ruling BJP in Karnataka has captured the Bangalore city corporation for the first time, wresting the civic body from Congress in fiercely contested polls held last week.

The government has banned sale of liquor in Bangalore from Friday to ensure the civic polls pass smoothly without any incident.

Life has been one crazy drive for the last two days for Milind Dharmasena, one of the star campaigners of the state JD (S) unit.

The Supreme Court has cleared the decks for holding municipal elections in Bangalore.