“BJP-RSS workers are eliminating names of Congress voters from electoral rolls by fudging them,” All India Congress Committee secretary and Belagavi division in-charge Manicka Tagore said in Belagavi on Saturday. “That is because their booth-level agents connive with the registration officers and fu

Police personnel will no longer be allowed to play judge, jury or the proverbial executioner in civil dispute cases, which more often than not trigger bribery and corruption within the force. Director-General and Inspector-General of Police R.K. Dutta, in a circular issued earlier this month, war

Students of pre-university colleges can rejoice as the Department of Pre-University Education has issued a direction to all colleges that students cannot be asked to wear uniforms. This applies to government, aided and private colleges, and will be enforced from the 2017-18 academic year. In the

Bengaluru: With the BJP demanding a CBI probe into the mysterious death of a Karnataka-cadre IAS officer in Lucknow amid suspicions of foul play behind it, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said his government will cooperate in any enquiry into it. Tiwari, a 2007-batch IAS officer serving as com

BENGALURU: The arrest of a Karnataka IAS officer earlier this week by a Special Investigation Team or SIT could mean trouble for former chief minister, HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal Secular. The issue - once again - is illegal mining. Revenue Secretary, Gangaram Baderiya, has been accused of i

NEW DELHI, May 18,2017:  The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of 10 new indigenous nuclear power reactors of 700 MW capacity each, including two at Kaiga in Karnataka. The two reactors at Kaiga are likely to produce electricity for commercial use only by the middle of the next dec

Anurag Tiwari, a Karnataka cadre IAS officer who had turned 36 on Wednesday, was found dead outside a government guesthouse where he was staying in Hazaratganj area of Lucknow the same morning. Jai Narayan Singh, DIG, Lucknow Range, told The Indian Express that they are yet to ascertain what caused

Bengaluru: Hundreds of ATMs across India’s tech hub remained shut for the second day due to possible virus attack by WannaCry ransomware and cash crunch, said a bank official on Tuesday. “Ransomware attack appears to be causing glitches at many ATMs that work on Random Access Memory (RAM). Old

Bengaluru: A shopkeeper was arrested for alleged sexual abuse of a 10-year-old minor in the city’s southern suburb, police said on Tuesday. “Accused Nataraj, 36, was arrested on a complaint from the victim’s parents on Sunday that he lured their young daughter into his provisions store offering c

Five passengers and the driver of state transport bus have been rescued Gadag, May 15,2017 (NDTV): Six people were miraculously saved when their bus fell into an overflowing river in Karnataka's Gadag today. As soon as the bus got caught in the strong current, quick-thinking locals began their resc

Taking a series of digs at some of the leaders of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the BJP had no moral right to comment on a State government that had administered “scam-free governance” in the last four years, and had fulfilled a majority of the promises made

In a case reminiscent of the November 2016 incident when driver Dominic Selvaraj absconded with ₹92 lakh meant for an ATM in Bengaluru, four personnel from a cash transfer agency in Mangaluru, allegedly made away with ₹7.5 crore from Axis Bank on Thursday. They were to carry it from Mangaluru to Ben

Cut-off marks in some of the most sought after pre-university colleges are set to increase for the academic year 2017-18. Despite the SSLC pass percentage declining this year, college managements who have already received applications state that more students have secured higher ranks this year.

To ensure that pre-university students keep abreast of the demands of the market, the Department of Pre-University Education plans to redesign subject combinations. C. Shikha, Director of DPUE, said on Thursday they want to redesign the PU combinations in tune with undergraduate courses and job o

The pass percentage of SSLC exams stands at 67.87 %. Out of the total 8.5 lakh candidates, who appeared to the exam, 5.8 lakh candidates cleared the exam held in March 2017. The results were announced by Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait on Friday. Three students bagged 625/625 m

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said that the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections in 2018 will be fought under his leadership and he is confident of the party returning to power. Listing out various achievements of the Congress government, which completed four years on Friday, the Chie

The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) is all set to get a new president later this month. The All-India Congress Committee (AICC) team led by K.C. Venugopal, general secretary in-charge of Karnataka, has held consultations with over 400 Congress leaders, legislators and Ministers, and f

Officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) raided offices and residences of four senior government officials in and around the city on Wednesday morning and unearthed assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. The officials whose houses and offices were raided at 6 a.m. are Addi