The nature enthusiasts who gathered at the Ramadevarabetta vulture sanctuary on the morning of September 14 were one lucky batch. What awaited the group was a glorious view of the only pair of critically endangered long-billed vultures in the sanctuary, perched about 3,000 feet high on the crevice of a monolith that’s characteristic of Ramanagara. The Karnataka Forest Department and …
Perched upon a weathered bench near his farm in Sathanur, about 20 kilometres from Bengaluru, smoking his beedi, 50-year-old farmer S.C. Lokesh laughs sardonically about the Karnataka government’s proposal to rename Ramanagara district to Bengaluru South. Road connectivity and land prices The present Ramanagara district has five taluks — Ramanagara, Channapatna, Magadi, Kanakapura, and Harohalli. Ramanagara and Channapatna taluks — …
Janata Dal’s leader and the grandson of former PM Devegowda, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, who was running for the Ramanagara constituency, was at the second spot with 47,891 votes with 39.5 percentage on Saturday. The actor turned politician contested as a Lok Sabha member in 2019 from the Mandya constituency and lost to Sumalatha Ambareesh who contested as an independent candidate. Congress …
This constituency, like most of Karnataka this year, will not be an easy grab for any of the political players. For instance, JD' Nikhil Kumaraswamy is a once-routed candidate who is expected to rely on his party's traditional vote base to be elected. This will be his second attempt to enter electoral politics after he lost the Mandya Lok Sabha …