ellandur lake in South East Bengaluru caught fire once again on Friday morning. Smoke was seen billowing from the highly polluted lake. The cause of the fire is ascertained but the lake may have caught fire due to its high pollutants contamination. Residents living around the lake reported huge c

BENGALURU: Rahul Gandhi would lead from the front for the Congress in Karnataka polls, launching the campaign with a three-day tour from February 10, a key state party leader said on Friday. Working President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Dinesh Gundu Rao, also indicated that party MLA

Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hegde, who had recently stirred a controversy with his call for changing the Constitution and ‘objectionable remarks’ mocking secularists, had to face the wrath of activists in Kalaburagi on Wednesday. Hundreds of activists asso

After a season of copious rains, the dry period of the past month has once again raised the spectre of forest fires in the State. Since December 28, the Forest Survey of India’s fire alert system — which sends SMS to stakeholders based on sightings onboard two earth-observing satellites — has bee

The city's vehicle population has crossed 72 lakh, but the number of people using electric vehicles is a far cry from India’s ambitious plans to shift completely to electric vehicles by 2030. Data available with the Transport Department shows that there are only 6,246 electric vehicles in Bengalu

Bengaluru: The World Organisation for Animal Health on Monday said that India has reported an outbreak of a highly contagious bird flu virus in Karnataka, citing a report from the Indian agriculture ministry. As per the report, the H5N8 virus was detected on 26 December among birds in the village

NEW DELHI: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said the upcoming Assembly polls in the state would be a battle between two ideologies -- communalism and secularism. He also denied that there was an anti-incumbency factor for the Congress and said the party would retain power in the southe

Bengaluru [Karnataka]: Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Karnataka unit leaders, including Lok Sabha MP Shobha Karandlaje, were detained here on Saturday when they were protesting against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over his remarks against the party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Lok Sabha member from the BJP Shobha Karandlaje has alleged that the State government is doing politics over the suicide of a college student at Mudigere. Addressing presspersons during her visit to Mudigere on Thursday, she said the police have arrested persons who had been to the girl’s place t

Mysuru’s first Indira Canteen was launched on the premises of Command Area Development Authority (CADA) office near the Mysuru Palace here on Friday. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah inaugurated the canteen and also savoured the inaugural breakfast – Upma and Kesaribath. Developed on the lines of ‘

The former Minister C.H. Vijayshankar, who quit the BJP more than two months ago, will be joining the Congress in the presence of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president G. Parameshwara in Bengaluru on January 19. Mr. Vijayshankar disclosed this to re

As the war of words between BJP president Amit Shah and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah gets intense in the run up to the Karnataka polls, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has called a meeting of senior leaders to discuss the poll strategy for the State. Lok Sabha MP and Congress’ Karnataka

Phone tapping and snooping of Ministers is again in the news in poll-bound Karnataka. On Thursday, Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy accused the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre of tapping phones of several Ministers and Congress leaders in the State. Mr. Reddy told presspersons here that he w

BENGALURU: Lambasting Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for describing workers of BJP, RSS and Bajrang Dal as terrorists, leaders of the state unit of BJP decided to launch a 'jail bharo' protest across the state, beginning Friday. Member of Parliament and state unit general secretary, Shobha Karandlaj

The Karnataka High Court has ordered that insurance companies should not compensate accident victims not wearing ISI helmets. Justice L Narayanaswamy passed the order on an appeal by the Oriental Insurance Company challenging an order by a court in Madhugiri directing the company to compensate ac

Bengaluru: The residents of East and North parts of Bengaluru will have a tough time as there will be intermittent power supply from January 12 to 31 due to maintenance work by Bescom. The areas in East division which will be affected are Indiranagar, Shivajinagar, Kammanahalli, Thanisandra, Bana

Chitradurga (Karnataka): Calling the Congress government in Karnataka "anti-Hindu", BJP chief Amit Shah accused it of perpetrating atrocities on BJP and RSS workers, claiming 20 of them were killed in the state over the last three years. He alleged that the Siddaramaiah government was pursuing "v

Bhatkallys News Bureau/ Fristen Dias Bhatkal 09 Jan 2018: In an unfortunate incident that took place at Rathabidi of Gokarna in Uttara Kannada district, a foreigner tourist collapsed and died on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Jeral Bernard (44) a national of France who was on a to