Abdul Karim Telgi, who was convicted for masterminding a multi-crore fake stamp paper racket, passed away at the Trauma Care Centre in Victoria Hospital on Thursday. He was declared dead at 3.55 p.m., doctors said. The 56-year-old was admitted to Victoria Hospital 10 days ago with meningitis. Doc

Bengaluru: Police on Wednesday said they were yet to examine a video clipping in which noted historian Ramachandra Guha is purportedly making allegations linking the killing of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh with the Sangh Parivar. The BJP has criticised the delay in lodging an FIR against the

Bengaluru: Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for saying that states “opposing the idea of development” won’t get support from the Centre, Karnataka Chief Minister on Monday said: “What the Centre gives states is their right, not charity.” Referring to Modi’s statements of Sunday in Gujarat,

NEW DELHI: Much to the embarrassment of the BJP members, President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday endorsed Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan saying the Sultan died a historic death fighting the British. “Tipu Sultan died a historic death fighting the British. He was also a pioneer in the development of Myso

Taking serious exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that “not a penny would be released to those opposing development”, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said it was not right for a Prime Minister to comment in such a manner. Speaking to presspersons at Hubballi Airport on Monday, Mr.

Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha M. Mallikarjun Kharge has said that Rahul Gandhi will soon become president of the Congress and the party will face all upcoming elections under his leadership. He was talking to media persons in Yadgir after participating in a function to inaugurate a buil

The State Assembly elections slated for April/May are likely to affect the schedule of the Common Entrance Test by a week. The CET is a gateway for admissions to engineering, pharmacy, agriculture and ayurveda, among others. Last academic year, CET was conducted on May 2 and 3. Sources in the

BENGALURU: Two auto rickshaw drivers have been arrested for allegedly dropping a cockroach in the food served in the state government's flagship programme 'Indira Canteen', to seek 'publicity', police said today. Hemanth and Devaraj, along with two others went to have meals at Indira Canteen in B

Bhatkallys News Service Bengaluru 23 Oct 2017: State Government has issued a new circular to all the concerned departments to warn parents of minors and adults who ride or drive vehicle without license on road. The circular states the parents of such drivers, and vehicle owners will be tried unde

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