BENGALURU: Bengaluru Railway Division went ahead and empowered its women staffers in the eyes of the world by setting up Karnataka’s first all-women railway station at Banaswadi on March 8. But just under ten days, the women staffers are terrified about working there. The reason: Let alone the ab

Union Minister for Agriculture Radhamohan Singh told the Parliament yesterday (16 March) that farmer suicides in Karnataka in 2016 have gone up by 32 per cent compared to the previous years, reports Deccan Herald. Quoting statistics from the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), Singh said that 2,079

The Karnataka government, under the leadership of its Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah had set up a committee in July 2017 to examine if the state could have its own flag, but had received major flak from the central government. The following is from a blog post that Siddaramaiah has put up on Facebook,

MYSURU: Close on the heels of a recent letter from the president of IPS Officers Association to Chief Secretary K Ratna Prabha, office-bearers of Karnataka State Reserve Police Employees Association, Mandya, have written to both Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the chief secretary alleging irregulari

BENGALURU, MARCH 15: Encouraged by the progress made in its ‘Automotive Safety Innovation’ project with Intel India – along with Mobileye, an Intel company – as its technology advisor, the Karnataka government has announced its commitment and vision in making Karnataka roads safer for its citizens.

The Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha bypoll results will have no "direct" bearing on the coming assembly polls in Karnataka where the electoral dynamics is different, say political parties. Wilting under the combined onslaught of the SP-BSP, the BJP suffered an embarrassing electoral reverse, losing the G

Students in Mumbai and Bangalore – two of India’s wealthiest cities with a combined GDP of $410 billion, larger than that of Norway — are falling behind in the core areas of maths and language, scoring notably worse than their counterparts in rural areas, according to a new nationwide test. Despi

Bengaluru: In a counter-attack against the BJP ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, the ruling Congress in Karnataka brought out a ‘charge sheet’ against the saffron party under the title ‘NAmage MOsa‘ (We have been cheated). In the charge sheet, the Congress accused its principal rival of ‘

BENGALURU: In an interim relief to a transgender woman named M Monisha, the Karnataka High Court directed the Karnataka Legislative Council to issue orders appointing her as a D Group employee. The court, however, made it clear that the appointment is subject to the result of the writ petition sh

Despite recent reiteration by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) that no essential services or benefits would be denied to genuine beneficiaries for want of Aadhaar, there have been several such cases across the State. While a major chunk of these denials have been in the Public

Alarmed by the extraordinarily high number of fire alerts received during four consecutive days last week, the Telangana Forest Department stepped up forest fire prevention measures across the divisions in the State. Officials have received a total of 7,700 fire alerts since January 1 this year,

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned the bail plea of Mohammed Haris Nalpad, son of Congress MLA NA Haris, accused of assaulting a 24-year-old youth at a restaurant here, to Wednesday. Nalpad moved the high court after the lower court rejected his bail plea with regard to the a

When Yogi Adityanath was appointed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, the Kadri Math in Mangalore erupted in celebrations, an acknowledgement of a deep connection between the Nath sampradaya (tradition) headed by him and the math, an offshoot of it. Last week, Mr. Adityanath addressed a heavily attend

The exam fever has reached fever pitch with several cases of class 10 students staying back in schools late into the night completing prep work. In some instances, they spend the entire night in schools, even sleeping there so that they don’t lose precious time commuting. SSLC exam is barely two

بنگلور۔10؍مارچ(سالار)چیف الیکشن کمشنر او پی راوت نے آج کہا کہ اب تک32کروڑ سے بھی زیادہ آدھار نمبرس ووٹرشناختی کارڈس کے ساتھ لنک کئے گئے ہیں۔ اسوسی ایشن فارڈیموکریٹک ریفارمس (ADR)جو ایک غیر سرکاری ادارہ ہے کے زیر اہتمام یہاں بنگلور میں منعقدہ14ویں قومی کانفرنس کے مقام پر نامہ نگاروں سے بات کرتے ہوئے

BENGALURU: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Karnataka prisons department for the alleged negligence of prison officials in the alleged suicide case of Jai Shankar, a convict in three rape and murder cases. According to NHRC, a suo motu case has been taken up foll

As many as 18 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers have been transferred in poll-bound Karnataka on the order of the Election Commission (EC), an official statement said. The transfer order was issued on Friday night on the recommendation of the EC ahead of the state assembly election due in late Ap

BENGALURU: The time it takes to drop your luggage at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) will soon be reduced as Bangalore International Airport Limited(BIAL) will introduce a self-bag drop facility by July. BIAL officials said passengers opting for we b check-in will soon be able to drop th