Mysuru: Six persons, including two women, died and four others were injured on Thursday when lightning struck them in this Karnataka district, said police. “The incident occurred around 2 p.m. when a 10 member group rushed to take shelter under a tree near the temple in Hunaswadi village due to h

New Delhi: A cross-sectional rally, comprising hundreds of students and activists, was organised here on Thursday denouncing the RSS and allied groups for the death of journalist Gauri Lankesh. The protest was organised to mark one month of Lankesh’s murder who was shot dead outside her house in

Bangalore: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader T.T.V. Dinakaran, after receiving expelled AIADMK general secretary V. K. Sasikala from the jail on Friday, said that she has been directed to keep away from all political activities during the parole period. Sasikala has been gr

Jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala was granted parole on Friday for five days, from October 7 to 11, to visit her ailing husband in Chennai. The 60-year-old leader is serving a four-year-sentence at Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara prison for corruption. Her nephew and ousted AIADMK leader TTV Dinaka

After its wettest monsoon, state to revise list of drought-affected districts The year 2017 has been a happy one for Karnataka, which has been reeling under severe drought since 2011 and passing through the worst climatic phase in its history. Bounteous rains across the state spanning two months

BENGALURU: Heavy rains returned to lash Bengaluru on Thursday causing traffic snarls across the city. Hundreds of vehicles are stranded at several traffic junctions and under-passes which are flooded with rain water. Most of the low-lying areas of the city are inundated leaving many drains overflow

October 5, Bengaluru Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that his government would seek a Constitution amendment to ensure 70% reservation for the SC/ST communities in education and public sector services. Reservation would be sought on the lines of Tamil Nadu model, he said

Bengaluru, Oct 5 (PTI) Activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was gunned down outside her home in Bengaluru last month, will be posthumously given the Anna Politkovskaya Award this year, making her the first Indian to receive the honour, her family said today. Lankesh will share the annua

The recently evicted AIADMK chief, VK Sasikala, who was seeking to secure a parole might have to wait a little longer. VK Sasikala, who left her husband decades ago to live with former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, was looking for the parole due to her husband's condition.

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