New Delhi/Bengaluru: The government from Monday will open booking of website names in nine Indian scripts including Sanskrit, Kashmiri, Kannada, Oriya, Sindhi and Malayalam. The autonomous body National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) , under the Ministry of Electronics and IT, has invited appl

Bengaluru: The Health Department of the Karnataka government is planning to have a separate hospital where all cases of COVID-19 will be kept in quarantine. Presently, it is in the process of setting up of separate isolation wards for COVID-19 cases at eight Bengaluru hospitals. Dr K Sudhakar,

New Delhi: A 76-year-old man who died in north Karnataka's Kalaburagi district on Tuesday has tested positive for novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, Health Minister B Sriramulu said late Thursday night. This is the first case in India of a death linked to coronavirus. The news was later confirmed by th

Bengaluru: In a latest development in Karnataka politics, former minister and senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar was on Wednesday appointed as the president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) by the Congress high command. In a tweet from official Twitter handle of the party, the hig

Bengaluru: After noted IPS officer of the state Annamalai resigned from the services earlier last year, another senior IPS officer of the state, Sanjay Sahay has resigned from the services. ADGP Sanjay Sahay, who is a 1989 batch IPS officer, has decided to take voluntary retirement from the servi

Belagavi: The Coronavirus outbreak has created a sense of panic among people across the country. Rumours circulating on social media state that the consumption of chicken could lead to spread of the virus which has severely impacted the chicken prices. Following the massive decline in the chicken

Bengaluru: Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will have its old, out of use buses into mobile toilets for women. A Pune-based private entity has been roped in to convert the buses. These buses will be put out around bus stands and other public places. Each bus will have six to

Bengaluru: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed 4 positive cases of Corona in Karnataka and within minutes of ICMR stating the positive case in the state, B Sriramalu, state health minister took to twitter confirming the news and asked the citizens to take precautions. IT engin

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government is mulling providing additional health insurance coverage to doctors and paramedics treating the COVID-19 cases and working in the laboratories besides existing schemes, Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar said on Tuesday. Stressing that their safety was '

Bengaluru/New Delhi: Former Union law minister and Congress veteran Hansraj Bhardwaj died after a cardiac arrest at a hospital here on Sunday evening. He was 83. Bhardwaj breathed his last around 6.30 pm at Max Hospital, Saket, where he was admitted since Wednesday due to kidney-related ailments,

Bengaluru: Three Infosys employees, attached to the Income Tax department’s Centralised Processing Centre here, were arrested for allegedly taking bribes from tax-payers for speedy processing of their refund, police said on Sunday, March 8. According to police, the key accused among the three w

Davangere: Lashing out at BS Yediyurappa over the decision to discontinue the Shaadi Bhagya scheme, former chief minister Siddaramaiah said that the move reflects the anti-minority attitude ot the BJP government. In an order issued on Saturday, the state government directed the minority welfare d

Bengaluru: Former Primary and Secondary Education Minister of Karnataka and MLA, Tanveer Sait on Saturday called on the state government to declare holidays to schools across the state in the wake of Corona Virus spread adding that the move should be aimed at keeping the students of the state. Sa

Bengaluru: With the coronavirus scare spreading to Karnataka, employees can take 28 days of paid leave if they furnish to their employers a medical certificate from ESI or any government hospital. The Labour Department has issued a circular to all employers to grant the leave should it be applied fo

Bengaluru: In connection with the controversial play enacted by students of Shaheen Primary and High School, the district and sessions court in Bidar noted that the play has not caused any disharmony in the society. A row had erupted after the play, themed on protests against the Citizenship (Ame

Belthangady: As the coronavirus infection has been identified in Telangana, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) officials have directed the staff to wear safety masks and also informed to clean 86,000 buses from 84 depots that are divided among 17 sections effective Wednesday, Mar

Vijayapur: The city police arrested a student and a person police for taking a photograph of the II PU physics question paper and circulating it on social media. As the paper was circulated after the commencement of the examination, the Department of Pre-University Education has ruled out a paper

Vijayapur: The PU board exams in the state commenced today and though measures were taken to prevent question paper leakage, the first three pages of Physics question paper went viral on social media within an hour of commencement of the exams. The incident is said to have occurred at Shanteshwar