Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]: The Congress Party on Tuesday said there is no existing rule stating that a state cannot have its own flag and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of being ‘Hindi-Centric’ and not respecting diversity. Slamming the Centre for terming the Karnataka government’

New Delhi: While GST shook the financial economy of Nation, ITC too played its part by raising prices of certain brands of cigarettes, following the 6-7 per cent hike in additional cess on cigarettes. The GST Council on July 17 raised the compensation cess by Rs 485-792 per thousand cigarettes to

Bengaluru: Supporting the cause of Kannada and the right to promote the local language, Bengaluru Police Commissioner Praveen Sood on Saturday however warned pro-Kannada activists against violating the law while opposing use of Hindi on signboards in the city. “Importance to Kannada should be g

Bengaluru: Eminent space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Udupi Ramachandra Rao passed away here in the wee hours today due to age related ailments. He was 85. “Rao breathed his last during the early hours, around 3 AM today,” ISRO Public Relations Direct

Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today said the state-run abattoir here produces around 2,000 kgs of beef per day and the additional demand for it is met by supplies from neighbouring Karnataka. Addressing the state assembly on the first day of the monsoon session, Parrikar, in reply

A 48-year-old woman has filed a complaint that she has been hit by a car in which Moobidri MLA K. Abhayachandra Jain was travelling on Friday evening. In the complaint to the Bajpe police, 48-year-old Jainabi said she was hit by the car when she was walking by the roadside near Bajpe market. Afte

Bengaluru: Calling for a narrative based on cultural and civilisational ethos of tolerance and compassion, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said the legacy of pluralism and secularism was at stake. “What is at stake is the legacy of pluralism and secularism, as citizens are no long

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