Chitradurga, Jun 4: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday ruled out constituting a new textbook review committee amid a row over the controversial tweets and excluding the writings of intellectuals by Karnataka Textbook Review Committee chief Rohith Chakrateertha many years ago. C

Mandya, Jun 4 (IANS): Karnataka's historical town Srirangapatna has turned into a police fortress on Saturday against the backdrop of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) "Srirangapatna Chalo" call to chant Hanuman Chalisa in Jamia Masjid. The district administration has clamped curfew f

Bengaluru, June 1: Some members of the Congress' student wing - NSUI (National Students Union of India) - allegedly tried to stage a protest and besiege the house of Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh at Tiptur in Tumakuru district of Karnataka on Wednesday over the school textbook

Bengaluru: The Income Tax officials conducted raids at more than 50 places on residences of businessmen throughout the state on Wednesday. In the background of accusations of possessing income exceeding the submitted IT returns, teams of more than 600 IT officials are reportedly raiding the homes

Bengaluru, May 27: Targeting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, senior Karnataka Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday questioned whether those who belonged to the outfit were "native Indians", "Dravidians" or "Aryans". The Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly also blamed the lack of uni

Bengaluru: An Omani student studying in Bengaluru committed suicide by hanging himself on Monday here in the city. The incident took place under the jurisdiction of Bagalur Police Station. The police identified deceased the student as Abdul Azeer (22). Abdul Azeer was reportedly a student of f

Bengaluru, May 21: The Karnataka government has ordered 33 per cent reservation for women among the outsourced employees in all its departments and their subsidiary organisations, institutions, universities and autonomous bodies. In his May 19 circular, Chief Secretary P Ravi Kumar said recruitme

Mandya: In the wake of the controversies over Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque, fringe Hindutvava organisations including Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal have sought for the videography survey and excavation of Jamia Masjid at Srirangapatna on Friday. The twin right wing organisations have urged

New Delhi/Bengaluru(PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the much awaited expansion or rejig of his Cabinet on Wednesday, said the BJP central leadership would communicate its decision in this regard after discussions, and that "anything m

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday held a meeting with top officials of Home, Police, and Legal Department and issued guidelines on the usage of loudspeakers at religious places across the state. The new order added that all the premises using loudspeakers in the stat

Udupi: Karnataka BJP Chief Nalin Kumar Kateel on Monday said the recent statements of party legislator Basanagouda Patil Yatnal were taken note of and they were brought to the notice of the party’s Central Disciplinary Committee. He further added the committee will be contemplating further action

Badami: Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday called for the arrest of Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Mutalik for disrupting peace and spreading enmity between communities over the Azaan-Bhajan issue. Speaking before taking part in the Janata Jaladhare event at Badami on Tuesday,

Bengaluru, May 9: Karnataka Agriculture Minister B C Patil on Monday warned of stringent action against those who create artificial scarcity of fertilisers and seeds for sowing ahead of monsoon season. The minister said the government is making sure there is no shortage of fertilisers and seeds i

Bengaluru, May 6: Karnataka BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Friday hinted that the much-awaited expansion or reshuffle of the Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai-led cabinet in the state, may take place before May 10. The former chief minister said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon take a decision

Bengaluru, May 5: Accusing the BJP government at the Centre of supporting the "40 per cent commission government" in Karnataka, Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah on Wednesday demanded a judicial inquiry, headed by a sitting High Court judge, into the alleged scam in the recruitment of police sub-ins

Bengaluru(PTI): Denials poured in on change in the leadership in Karnataka, amid buzz over such a move by the BJP high command ahead of the Assembly polls next year, as Union Minister Amit Shah was on a day-long visit to take part in various events in the city on Tuesday. This even as some party

Bengaluru, Apr 27: With the much awaited expansion or reshuffle of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai-led cabinet in Karnataka taking time, voices of discontent seems to be brewing within the ruling BJP, with party MLA M P Renukacharya on Wednesday openly expressing displeasure about the delay and work

Vijayapura, Apr 26: Amid fresh COVID-19 concerns in different parts of the country and apprehensions of a possible fourth wave of the pandemic, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday indicated that precautionary and surveillance measures may be reintroduces at airports and border distr