Bengaluru (Karnataka): Under pressure to save government schools from closure, Karnataka government may do away with the fee reimbursement scheme. It was implemented under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. Under RTE, the state government pays the fees of unde

Bengaluru (Karnataka): A Bengaluru Court on Monday extended the judicial custody of journalist Ravi Belagere to December 23. Belagere was arrested for allegedly plotting the murder of his colleague Sunil Heggaravalli. Earlier, on December 7, Shashidhar Ramachandra, who was arrested by the crim

New Delhi/Bengaluru : Hitting out at Congress for asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “apologise in Jama Masjid” for the 2002 riots, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said those who commit mistakes only they serve an apology. “This is a shameful statement by the Congress. They apologi

New Delhi: Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fund highway upgradation project in Karnataka for which it has approved a loan of USD 346 million, ADB said today. It said the Board of Directors has approved the loan to improve 419 km of state highways by upgrading them to two and four-lane with pave

BENGALURU: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy has stoked a controversy with his remarks that a few BJP leaders were behaving like terror group ISIS. “I never called all the BJP leaders terrorists. I said only a few BJP leaders are behaving like ISIS,” Mr Reddy said. He was asked about his

New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said his government will not allow communal violence in the state even if the BJP tried hard for the same ahead of the assembly polls. His comments come in the wake of the arrest of BJP MP Pratap Simha near Mysuru, ahead of a Hamnuman Jayanti

BENGALURU: A special NIA court in Bengaluru on Monday framed charges against three accused in the last year’s Mysuru court blast case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in May filed a charge sheet in the special NIA court against Nainar Abbas Ali alias Appas Ali alias Library Abbas (28), M

Bengaluru: Karnataka Water Resources?Minister M B Patil on Friday said he would take legal action against state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa for reportedly calling him a “commission agent” in the state government. “I have consulted legal experts regarding former chief? minister Yeddyurappa calling m

BENGALURU: As many as 10,000 apartment dwellers under the banner of Bengaluru Apartments’ Federation today held a silent rally against notices issued by the city water supply and sewerage board to comply with rules on installing Sewage Treatment Plants in apartment complexes. BAF General Secretar

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State unit president B. S. Yeddyurappa said on Monday that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was making plans to lay foundation stones to 519 developmental projects worth Rs. 2,468 crore in North Karnataka just three months ahead of Assembly polls only to influence voters.

Whether it is murder, robbery or cases of rioting and destroying public property, most major crimes have increased in Bengaluru, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for the last year. The report, which was released on Thursday, shows that the city has leapfrogged Mumbai to take

Bengaluru : Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) always rake the Ram temple issue amid elections. Kharge’s statement came after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy announced that the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya will commence soon and devotees will

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asserted that no Congress leader would join the BJP and claimed that several BJP leaders were in touch with him expressing their desire to join the Congress. Addressing a gathering during the centenary celebration of Basaveshwara Bank in Bagalkot on Friday, he

Bengaluru: About 20,000 youth across the country would be skilled by 2020 in apparel, made-ups and home furnishing sectors in collaboration with textile major Arvind Ltd, said Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Ananthkumar Hegde on Thursday. “We have started skill training of about 1

Bengaluru: Senior woman Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer K. Ratna Prabha on Thursday took over as Karnataka’s new Chief Secretary, replacing Subash Chandra Khuntia who retired on superannuation earlier in the day. A 1981-batch officer of the Karnataka cadre, Prabha is the third woman o

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday summoned the Superintendent of Parappana Agrahara Jail in Bengaluru to appear before it with the fingerprint records of Tamil Nadu`s late Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa in connection with affixing of the thumb impression on poll documents, said a lawyer. Th

Hubballi: Terming the allegation about involvement of mines and geology minister Vinay Kulkarni in the murder case of Dharwad ZP member Yogesh Gouda as false and baseless, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said it is a conspiracy hatched by the BJP against the Congress leader in view of the forthcoming As

Former senior Indian Police Service officer HN Sathyanarayana Rao has filed a Rs 20-crore defamation case against Karnataka’s ex-deputy inspector general of prisons Roopa D Moudgil, who alleged that AIADMK leader VK Sasikala received preferential treatment in Bengaluru Central Prison by paying a bri