Bengaluru: The Karnataka government will gift laptops to 1.5 lakh students of ‘poor’ families joining colleges across the state this academic year, Law Minister T. B. Jaychandra said on Wednesday. “The state cabinet has approved to distribute laptops free of cost to 1.5 lakh students who got admi

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday justified his government’s demand for a separate state flag and said that it was in no way an insult to the national flag. The Karnataka Congress veteran also hit back at the BJP and JDS and said that the two parties were quoting non-e

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday raising issues of disparity in allocation of State Disaster Relief Funds (SDRF) allocated to each state, for the five years from 2015-16 to 2019-20 under the 14th Finance Commissio

Mumbai : Attacking the Karnataka government for exploring the possibility of having a state flag, the Shiv Sena said Congress president Sonia Gandhi should sack the chief minister as the move went against the history and ideals of her party. It also demanded that the Centre dissolve the Karnataka

Bengaluru: Bengaluru and Hyderabad remain the top priority for IT offices in the second quarter of 2017 despite recent layoffs, delayed supplies. According to property consultant JLL India, the two cities accounted for about 47% of the total office space leased among the country’s top seven cities i

Bengaluru: The anti-Hindi agitation seems to be growing with each passing day, as the members of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) blackened words written in Hindi on the signboard outside Yeswanthpur metro station. On Wednesday night, the members took up the task of blackening the Hindi words

Bengaluru: Asserting that there was no legal bar on states to have a separate flag, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the state government would consider if the panel set up to design it so favoured. “As the Constitution does not bar states from having their own flag for a sep

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has appointed retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar to probe into the alleged special treatment meted out to AIADMK (Amma) leader V K Sasikala and other “erroneous” practises in the central jail here. Kumar was appointed by the government for the probe after D Roopa,

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Karnataka Director General of Police, R.K. Dutta on Tuesday said that former DIG (Prisons) D. Roopa has been allotted a responsible position and it is not a punishment posting. Roopa grabbed headlines when she, in a report, said that All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]: The Karnataka Government has constituted a nine-member committee to submit a report to the state government on the possibility of designing a separate flag for the state. Journalist-writer and president of Karnataka Vidyavardhaka Sangha, Dharward, Patil Puttappa and

New Delhi: Gearing up for 2018 Karnataka Assembly polls, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today formed a jumbo 171-member committee for its state unit. The new Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) announced today has 17 vice presidents, 55 general secretaries and 96 secretaries, beside

New Delhi [India]: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday defended his action of transferring Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) D Roopa, who exposed irregularities in Parappana Agrahara Prison, stating that the action was taken “in view of the Government’s commitment to public interest, tr

BENGALURU: A police team's midnight knock on the door of BS Yeddyurappa has threatened to snowball into a confrontation between the BJP and the ruling Congress. The knock, police sources said, was for NR Santosh, an aide of Yeddyurappa, in connection with an alleged attempt to kidnap the aide of

Prohibitory orders were clamped in the city limits on Sunday till July 30 in the wake of recent incidents of communal unrest in parts of Dakshina Kannada district. In a related development, head of a local mutt has been asked to appear before police in connection with his claims that he had “vita

Bengaluru, July 17 (PTI) The Karnataka government today  transferred two top jail officials who were locked in a bitter public spat over allegations of "special" treatment to AIADMK (Amma) leader V K Sasikala and other "erroneous" practises in the central prison here. DGP (Prisons) H N Sathyanara

BENGALURU: Deputy inspector general (prisons) D Roopa, who recently exposed alleged corrupt activities in jail, submitted her second report to DGP (Prisons) HN Sathyanarayana Rao on Saturday. In the report, she has highlighted the state of affairs pertaining to maintenance of the central prison,

BENGALURU: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today indicated that the 2018 assembly polls could "most likely" be his last election. He also hinted at choosing Chamundeshwari constituency in Mysuru -- the place that gave him 'political rebirth' -- for the election. "People in Chamundeshwari ha

Singing the Nada Geethe (State anthem) is likely to be made mandatory in all schools in Karnataka. Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Tanveer Sait on Thursday said, “In many schools, during the assembly, children sing the national anthem and in some cases, even the school anthem. We hav