Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has dubbed BJP state president B.S. Yeddyurappa’s lunch with Dalits at his residence in Bengaluru on Monday as a “political gimmick”. Speaking to reporters on his arrival at the airport in Mysuru, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the BJP leader was resorting to such political gim

Following land slide in Sakleshpur and Subramanya Road section of Mysuru Division of the South Western Railway, the service of Karwar-Yeswantpur Express (train number 16516), which left Karwar on Tuesday, will be diverted via Shoranur, Salem and Tirupatur. The service will have stops at Kannur, Pala

Whirlpools and deep pits formed on the riverbed of the Cauvery, and huge quantum of water being discharged from Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS), have prompted the district administration to ban the immersion of Ganesh idols in the Cauvery near Srirangapatna till September 9. Bathing ghats and some other

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will launch a nationwide campaign to pressure the Union government to announce a national policy for agriculture, AAP leader and Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia has said. Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, Mr. Sisodia said that this campaign will be launch

In what is being seen as an election campaign in advance, the principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to launch a Statewide ‘Parivarthana’ (transformation) yatra, tentatively from November 1. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the party’s core committee, hel

Security has been stepped at the Dera Sacha Sauda Ashram branches on the outskirts of Mysuru and Bengaluru following the conviction of the cult’s chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, in a rape case and the violence that ensued in parts of north India. Soon after the verdict was announced on Friday, hu

The Bidar Market Police on Saturday arrested K. Narasimhamurthy, Commissioner of Municipal Council, and S.M. Hemesh, senior registrar, on corruption charge and produced them before the jurisdictional court which sent them to judicial custody. The arrest comes after a complaint on Friday by Balabh

Was key evidence related to the death of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mangaluru, M.K. Ganapathi brushed under the carpet? Ganapathi allegedly killed himself in a lodge in Kodagu last year. A report by the Forensic Science Laboratory, submitted to the Criminal Investigation Department, notes t

Condemning the functioning style of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), the Students’ Struggle Committee at the varsity under the aegis of All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) have given a call for voluntary bandh of VTU engineering colleges on September 1. S.H. Hanumanth,

Following volatile situation in Haryana, Jammu and Punjab region, the South Western Railway (SWR) has cancelled express trains to Chandigarh and Vaishno Devi on Saturday. Accordingly, train no. 22685, Yesvantpur-Chandigarh Superfast Karnataka Sampark Kranthi Express; Train No. 82651, Yesvantpur-S

BENGALURU: Days after the Gorakhpur incident, the Karnataka health department has said 90 infant deaths were reported from a district hospital in Kolar since January, of 1,053 babies admitted. A report in this regard was submitted by the director, health and family welfare services, to the princi

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the State on Wednesday gave an undertaking to the Karnataka High Court that it will neither summon nor arrest the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa till August 28 in connection with the two cases registered against him on the allegation that he had misused hi

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded that the episode of alleged suicide of Dy SP M.K. Ganapathi should be handed over to the CBI for a thorough inquiry in the wake of report that Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) has found destruction of some crucial evidence related to the case. Addres

The trend of engineering seats remaining vacant has continued this year too in the State. Over 29,000 engineering seats, of the total 77,500, are vacant. In other words, 37% of the engineering seats in private, government and aided colleges, bagged by students through the Common Entrance Test or the

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala's review petition seeking re-examination of its verdict holding her guilty in a 19-year-old disproportionate assets case. The review petition filed by Sasikala and two others others - V N Sudhakaran, Jayalalithaa

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today brushed aside the BJPs allegation that his government was using the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) as a political tool against the opposition leaders, including state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa. He also asserted that the FIRs filed by the ACB ag

JD(S) State president H.D. Kumaraswamy, on Monday, appeared before the Lokayukta Special Investigation Team (SIT) that is probing into the Janthakal Enterprises mining case. He was grilled for over three hours at the SIT Hebbal office. The team is probing the alleged misuse of his office to favou

Karnataka Silk Marketing Board chairman and Congress leader T.P. Ramesh is likely to face action for his alleged indecorous behaviour with a woman MLC at an event in Kodagu last week. Minister for Planning, Statistics, Science and Technology M.R. Seetharam, who is in charge of Kodagu district, to