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

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Samsung India has collaborated with the Government of Karnataka for a notebook donation drive to extend its support to students from government schools across Bengaluru, Kolar and Mulbaghal districts in the state. A team of volunteers in Bengaluru from Samsung Research and

Bengaluru: Several BJP leaders in Karnataka on Sunday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for “misusing” the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) by forcing it to file “false” cases against opposition leaders, including B S Yeddyurappa, the state unit chief of the saffron party. Those

Bengaluru : Troubles for jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary V.K. Sasikala don’t seem to end as a video footage was submitted to the Anti-Corruption Bureaun (ACB) allegedly by ex-deputy inspector general of police (DIG) (Prisons) D. Roopa showing the former and

Bengaluru: About 1,000 people from all walks of life took part in a cultural festival titled ‘Namma Bengaluru Habba’ (Our Bengaluru Festival) at the Sankey Tank here on Sunday to create awareness on preserving the environment. Organised by the Karnataka Tourism Department, the fest had about 20 a

The Dakshina Kannada police have arrested two more persons in connection with the murder of RSS activist Sharath Madiwala, on Saturday. The police gave the names of the arrested persons as Suhail and Sadiq, both residents of Hassan. The two are accused of harbouring persons involved in the murder

Mangaluru, which is slated to become a Smart City, will soon join the league of green cities in the country by gradually switching to natural gas for industrial, automobile and domestic purpose. GAIL (India) Ltd., which is executing the 438-km Kochi-Koottanad-Mangaluru natural gas pipeline, is co

BENGALURU: BJP leaders and workers protested in Bengaluru today against what they said was the misuse of the anti-corruption bureau of Karnataka and "political vendetta" by the ruling Congress government in the state. Last week, former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and senior BJP leader BS Yeddyu

The core committee of the State BJP, which met here on Friday, has decided to take out a ‘Mangaluru Chalo’ demanding the resignation of Forest Minister B. Ramanath Rai. According to the party, Mr. Rai is supporting organisations including PFI and KFD that are allegedly involved in the murder of Shar

New Delhi: The Congress today nominated former Union minister C M Ibrahim as the partys candidate for the by-election to the Karnataka Legislative Council. “Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the name of C M Ibrahim, former Union minister, as the party candidate for the by-election to b

Bengaluru: A judicial probe into then Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s death will prove AIADMK General Secretary V.K. Sasikala innocent, T.T.V. Dinakaran, a leader of one of the AIADMK factions, said here on Friday. Dinakaran also said there would be a “surgery” in the AIADMK as per the advice of

Bengaluru: Thousands of persons queued up on Thursday to get subsidised food at Indira Canteens run here by the Karnataka government, though teething troubles forced many to return disappointed due to there being not enough food to meet the demand. A day after Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi