Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the 2018 polls to the Legislative Assembly will be the last election he will contest in his lifetime. Mr. Siddaramaiah had declared that he would be shifting from Varuna to Chamundeshwari constituency in the next Assembly polls. Addressing a party workers’ conv

After a long silence on the matter of religion status for Lingayats, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) now seems to have decided to up the ante against the demand. Prominent functionaries of the group chose the platform of Vijayadashami discourses to publicly criticise the demand in the Lingayat

Bengaluru: A train ran over three youths on Tuesday while they were reportedly clicking selfies on railway tracks near here, police said. The incident took place at around 8.30 a.m. between Hejjala and Bidadi stations. “The youths were run over by Golgumbaz Express going to Mysuru from Bengalu

The prison authorities in Karnataka are considering a plea by jailed AIADMK leader V. K. Sasikala to release her on parole for 15 days to meet her ailing husband, who is awaiting a liver transplant at a Chennai hospital. “Yesterday, we received an application from Sasikala, urging us to release h

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said the BJP will be routed in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as the ‘illusions’ created by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have completely vanished. Speaking to reporters on his arrival at the Mysuru airport on Tuesday, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the BJP leaders themselves

The Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit has constituted a 17-member committee headed by its state spokesperson S. Suresh Kumar to draft the manifesto for the forthcoming Assembly elections. Among others, the committee comprises retired IAS officers Madan Gopal and C. Somashekhar, MPs Prabhaka

October 5 will mark one month since the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh and people are now demanding that the special investigative team (SIT) which is probing the case must conclude its investigation soon. Members of the ‘Gauri Lankesh Hatya Virodhi Vedike’, a group which has been protesting

CHENNAI: VK Sasikala, recently removed as the chief of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK, has requested parole for 15 days to attend to her husband M Natarajan, who is critically ill. Ms Sasikala has been in a Bengaluru prison since February this year in a corruption case. Mr Natarajan is admitted at a

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Responding on reports that Rahul Gandhi will be elevated as the Congress president soon after Diwali, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday stated the Congress need to clarify that they still have no faith in former’s leadership capabilities as we have been listening this

Bengaluru,1 October 2017: While the city was drenched in the festive spirit on Saturday, Chinnamma, 55, was engulfed in grief. A part of her house collapsed in Friday night's rain, claiming her son's life. Chinnammaand her sons -Raja, 36, and Manjunath, 29 -were asleep when rain wreaked havoc at

Bengaluru: Nutritious meals would be served daily to 12 lakh pregnant women and lactating mothers at child care centres across the state from October 2, said Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. “Besides nutritional supplements, counselling and other maternity benefits will be provided at the c

Bengaluru: The Income Tax Department raids on Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) retail chain since Thursday found Rs 650 crore concealed income from the documents seized, said an official on Sunday. “Documents seized from the search operations at 25 places of Cafe Coffee Day and its group companies in Karnat

September 30, Bengaluru: The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) system for Bengaluru. However, Bengalureans will have to wait for not less than a year for pedalling. The project will be implemented in the city at a cost of Rs 80 crore and will work just like the public

Bengaluru : Indian origin Vatican priest, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was rescued from the ISIS captivity, has arrived in Bengaluru on Friday morning. Father Tom thanked the almighty for his rescue from Yemen. “I thank God almighty. I thank everybody in the name of Jesus,” Father Tom told the m

Kalaburagi, 24 September 2017: A high school girl resorted to two-day hunger strike demanding construction of a toilet at her home. The stir yielded fruit as her parents finally went ahead to build one with the help of Zilla panchayat officials, here in Kalaburgi. PoojaNeelakanta, a class 8 stude

Bengaluru, 24 September 2017: A serial accident involving a BMTC bus, a Bolero vehicle and a lorry left two people injured here at international airport road in Bangalore on Saturday night. Reportedly, the Bolero vehicle rammed into the BMTC bus from behind when its driver applied sudden brakes.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]: Bengaluru Police on Friday summoned former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in connection with the kidnapping case of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader K S Eshwarappa’s personal assistant Vinay Kumar. Yeddyurappa will appear before police on September 28.

angaluru: In a tragic incident, a six year-old boy was crushed to death by a moving train when he attempted to cross the railway tracks at Jeppu near here, police sources said today. The victim Muhammed Hussain Hafil, a resident of Mahakalipadpu was returning home last evening after buying some t