Maya Sharma Radhika Iyer

A woman died and a man was injured in a blast at Church Street area, the heart of Bangalore's commercial area, on Sunday evening.

The Congress received some much-needed good news today from Karnataka, where it has won two of the three state assembly seats that were decided today. The big coup for the Congress has been its appropriation of an important BJP borough - Rural Bellary, the rich and graft-ridden heart of mining in the state.

Despite being filmed by security cameras as he attacked a woman with a machete at an ATM in Bangalore, the man has not been identified. Eight police teams are hunting for him as the city grapples with anger and fear.

Karnataka has voted. In the leafy constituencies of capital city Bangalore, the sun-baked regions of north Karnataka, and the relatively temperate southern parts of the state, voters turned out in high numbers to elect the state's next government. At the end of polling, 71 per cent of the 4.36 crore-strong electorate had cast its vote.

In what could further precipitate the crisis in the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa praised UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today.

BS Yeddyurappa's day began early. A visit to the Tumkur Mutt and then to a Bangalore temple. He turns 69 today, meets his supporters, hosts a birthday bash this evening and had reportedly been set for a big political announcement till his party president Nitin Gadkari took the wind out of his sails by making clear that there would be no change of g...

BS Yeddyurappa may have lost the chair, but he has had his way. His man, Sadananda Gowda, is Karnataka's new Chief Minister.

A woman died and a man was injured in a blast at Church Street area, the heart of Bangalore's commercial area, on Sunday evening.

The Congress received some much-needed good news today from Karnataka, where it has won two of the three state assembly seats that were decided today. The big coup for the Congress has been its appropriation of an important BJP borough - Rural Bellary, the rich and graft-ridden heart of mining in the state.

Despite being filmed by security cameras as he attacked a woman with a machete at an ATM in Bangalore, the man has not been identified. Eight police teams are hunting for him as the city grapples with anger and fear.

Karnataka has voted. In the leafy constituencies of capital city Bangalore, the sun-baked regions of north Karnataka, and the relatively temperate southern parts of the state, voters turned out in high numbers to elect the state's next government. At the end of polling, 71 per cent of the 4.36 crore-strong electorate had cast its vote.

In what could further precipitate the crisis in the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa praised UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today.

BS Yeddyurappa's day began early. A visit to the Tumkur Mutt and then to a Bangalore temple. He turns 69 today, meets his supporters, hosts a birthday bash this evening and had reportedly been set for a big political announcement till his party president Nitin Gadkari took the wind out of his sails by making clear that there would be no change of g...

BS Yeddyurappa may have lost the chair, but he has had his way. His man, Sadananda Gowda, is Karnataka's new Chief Minister.