Bengaluru (Karnataka): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused the Congress-led Karnataka government of celebrating Tipu Sultan’s birth anniversary just for ‘vote bank politics’ and said that the people of ‘Coorg, Mangalorean Christians and the Kannadigas’ are opposed to celebrate the b

The daily slog of routine crime and mounting paperwork is taking a toll on the 61-member Special Investigation Team, which was formed over a month ago to probe the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. A week after SIT released sketches of two suspects, many of the officials working on the

NEW DELHI: Professors of English at Bangalore's St Joseph's College have come out in solidarity with the Department of Sociology, which was at the center of a controversy on Saturday after it was reported that students were handed out reading material propounding the benefits of dowry. A page tit

The controversy surrounding the State-sponsored Tipu Jayanti celebrations hotted up on Saturday with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah lashing out at Union Minister of State for Skill Development Anantkumar Hegde and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shobha Karandlaje for their decision to not be part of the even

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government is set to celebrate the controversial Tipu Jayanti on November 10. The last two years have seen a backlash from opposition parties and protests in Kodagu district. This time around, BJP leader and Union Minister for Skill Development Ananth Kumar Hegde wrote to

Bengaluru: Karnataka PCC chief G Parameshwara on Friday said non-declaration of chief ministerial candidate before assembly polls will not have any impact on the party prospects as it has not been the convention even at the time of Devaraj Urs. “In Karnataka, at no point of time Congress has ever de

Bengaluru: Ex-IAS officer, S.M. Jamdar on Friday has suspected that noted Journalist Gauri Lankesh and academic M.M. Kalaburgi were murdered as they supported the demand for separate religious status for the Lingayat-Veerashaiva community. According to the news published in DC, talking to the med

New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday wrote to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, requesting him to exempt various categories of handmade products from the Goods and Services Tax (GST). In a letter dated October 19, the Chief Minister, who received a representation from a

Bengaluru (Karnataka): At least 13 people were arrested in connection with the attack on Court Commissioner of the High Court appointed to inspect illegal slaughterhouses in Bengaluru, said police on Wednesday. A group of assailants attacked the car of the Court Commissioner at Dodda Bettahalli n

Bengaluru: KPCC president G. Parameshwar on Thursday said AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi has advised state party leaders against making personal comments on opposition BJP leaders and instead engage them on national and local issues in run up to the next year’s assembly elections. KPCC leaders inc

The Congress on Tuesday demanded a high-level probe into the business dealings of the firm owned by Jay Shah, son of BJP president Amit Shah, by two sitting Supreme Court judges. It also wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to ask their national president to forthwith resign or remove him

Even as the Mysuru district administration has issued guidelines to the public on bursting crackers, a team of government officials has been constituted to check if crackers sold in the city are within sound limits specified by the Centre’s Environment (Protection) Act. The team, comprising three

At least six people died in the heavy rainfall in northwestern Bengaluru. All the deaths occurred in lower middle-class localities and next to major stormwater drains that were overflowing from rainfall that lasted three to four hours. Vasudeva Bhat, 40, a priest at a temple in the Kurubarahalli

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday assured stern action against Bengaluru techie mob-attack incident and said nobody can take law into their hands. Bengaluru techie Nandini was on Sunday assaulted by over 150 people after she reported a case of alleged illegal

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday denied the reports about gifting gold biscuits to every legislator for the diamond jubilee of the Vidhana Soudha. “There are no gold biscuit or any other thing; there are no mementos” said Siddaramaiah in reference to the dis

With the deadline to eliminate tuberculosis set for 2025, under the national strategic plan by the Central Tuberculosis Division, Karnataka has moved from the intermittent drug regimen (thrice a week) to daily regimen of TB drugs. The new regimen under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Pr

The Congress has constituted a manifesto committee headed by former Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily, MP, to draft the party’s poll manifesto for the 2018 Assembly elections. Party leader B.L. Shanker is the vice-chairman of the committee. The panel has 33 members, including KPCC working presi

The Karnataka BJP has filed a complaint with the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against chief minister Siddaramaiah, accusing him of “illegally denotifying” land resulting in a loss of Rs 300 crore to the Bengaluru Development Authority. The complaint on Monday, came days after the party’s OB