The results of the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admissions to professional courses, including engineering, Ayush and farm science courses, were announced on Tuesday. Announcing the results, Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy said that a total of 96,642 candidates are eligible to take

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Reacting to the Central Government’s new rule on cattle trade, Karnataka Chief Minister K. Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said it is not mandatory to follow every notification which comes from the Centre. “It is not mandatory to follow every notification which comes from Centre as

The former Chief Minister, H.D. Kumaraswamy, has termed the Union government’s decision to impose restrictions on selling cattle for slaughter houses as a regressive move that would adversely affect farmers. Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Mr. Kumaraswamy said while a poor farmer was stru

Law seat aspirants from Karnataka managed to bag top ranks in the Common Law Admission Test 2017 (CLAT), the results of which were announced late on Monday evening. The examination, which is the gateway to premier National Law Schools in the country, was held on May 14. This year’s CLAT was organ

Bengaluru: Four Nigeria nationals and one from Ivory Coast were arrested for allegedly peddling cocaine in the city, said police on Sunday. “On a tip-off, the Crime Branch raided two houses in the suburbs and seized 168 grammes of cocaine valued at Rs 18 lakh,” said Additional Commissioner of Pol

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said his department will soon come out with a detailed policy on electoral bonds, a scheme announced in the 2017–18 budget. The scheme is billed as a tool to bring in more accountability in funding of political parties. Mr. Jaitley credited Prime Minister N

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will be the BJP’s chief ministerial face in the Assembly polls scheduled early next year, party president Amit Shah said during an interaction with news wire Press Trust of India. “It [Karnataka election] will be fought under Yeddyurappa,” Mr. Shah

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said BJP state President B S Yeddyurappas visits to houses of Dalits and having food there was an “act of hypocrisy” and a “drama.” Siddaramaiah said Yeddyurappa allegedly preferring breakfast from a hotel instead of what was prepared at a Da

President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the long-pending Prohibition of Child Marriage (Karnataka amendment) Bill, 2016, giving greater powers to the police and increasing the penalty for child marriage. The Bill was drafted based on the recommendations of a core committee headed by Sh

Tumakuru: State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief BS Yeddyurappa is once against amidst a brewing controversy over claims of promoting untouchability, as he had a meal at a Dalit`s home that was allegedly prepared and brought to him from a nearby hotel. During his visit to Tumakuru district on F

Bengaluru: A police constable is battling for life after attempting to commit suicide by consuming poisoned food along with his wife and two children, which turned fatal for them, police said here on Tuesday. “City Armed Reserve (CAR) constable S. Subhash Chandra, 35, is in a critical condition at

Instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp have proved their usefulness, with even the police using them to send alerts to citizens. With a rise in attacks on doctors and medical staff by patients and their families, the State police chief has decided to turn to WhatsApp to give medical staff a se

With speculation rife over the circumstances leading to the death of IAS officer Anurag Tewari in Lucknow on Wednesday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday requesting him to ensure that it is “thoroughly investigated by a competent team of inve

“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