Davanagere: As the people of North Karnataka are recovering from the floods that hit the state recently, the food items sent for flood victims in North Karnataka are rotting at MLA Renukacharya’s office in Honnali. The food materials which were meant to be given to the flood victims are rotting a

Bengaluru: The notification issued by the previous JDS-Congress coalition government to recruit 1,000 engineers to the Public Works Department (PWD) was cancelled by the BS Yediyurappa led BJP government. In March 2019, the Public Works Department (PWD) department had issued a notification for th

Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Sunday said he was totally fit and fine, as he was discharged from a private hospital in Bengaluru, where he underwent angioplasty recently. "There is no problem now, I'm totally alright, as a normal person like earlier I can perform my activities, there is

In relief to victims of Karnataka’s ‘halal’ ponzi scams, namely – Muzaribah, Burraq, Morgenall and Nafiya – authorities will soon start accepting claim forms for refund under the Karnataka Protection of Interest of Depositors (KPID) Act. These schemes, along with other bigger scams like IMA and A

Bengaluru: Bangalore International Airport Limited (BAIL), the operator of Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) informed that a proposed airport city at the KIA will include three business parks which will be built over 40 acres. Speaking with this regard BIAL managing director and CEO Hari Mar

BENGALURU: In another crackdown on an international drug racket, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested three drug peddlers, who sourced drugs from the Netherlands and sold it across the country. The accused, Amatya Rishi (23), Aditya Kumar (21) and Mangal Mukya (30), are all from Bihar. Amat

Bengaluru: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday gave administrative approval for procurement and distribution of laptops free of cost to Schedule Caste trainees (Final Year) of government-aided and private ITI’s for 2019-20, at an outlay of about Rs 17 crores. “5,331 laptops will be procured at an e

Bengaluru: Assets worth over Rs 10 crore of a Bengaluru-based firm have been attached under the anti-money laundering law in connection with an alleged ‘Islamic banking or halal investment’ ponzi scam case, the ED said on Friday. The accused firm is Ambidant Marketing Pvt Ltd and its promoters an

Bengaluru: Sleuths of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Wednesday busted a fake marks card racket and arrested a 42-year-old owner of an educational institution based in Mahalakshmi Layout. The accused, Srinivas Reddy, who owns Sri Venkateshwara Educational Institute, masterminded the fake marks

In what has resemblance to a dramatic movie scene of a hot pursuit in search of a criminal, a Bengaluru auto rickshaw driver gave chase and helped catch a bike-borne chain snatcher. The entire incident was caught on CCTV cameras in the vicinity. The incident occurred on Sunday as widely reported

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the history of Tipu Sultan being taught to children in schools in Karnataka. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, had earlier made it clear that they were trying to remove all mention of Tipu Sultan from textbooks. However now, the expert committee which was

Anticipting the nation-wide roll out of NRC (National Register of Citizens), mosques in Karnataka have given a call to Muslims to keep their documents up-to-date. Imams and Moulvis have been appealing to the community to set right their documents. The Jamia Masjid in Bengaluru even opened a 'C

Kalaburagi: A woman delivered a baby boy in a moving train while she was travelling from Yadgir to Bengaluru on Monday, December 9 night. Geetha, a resident of Saidapur in Yadgir district, went into labour in the moving train. As per the source, some Anganwadi workers from Nalawara village in

Bengaluru: Congress leader MB Patil on Tuesday said the party high command has not yet accepted their resignations. Addressing presspersons here he said, “Our party will assess what went wrong in our strategies for bypolls which resulted in the embarrassing loss.” Speaking on former chief mini

In the early hours of Sunday, police officials from Ramanagara station in Karnataka received a call from concerned villagers in Ramanagara stating that over 500 people had gathered at a mango grove on the outskirts of town. After receiving the call, the police officers from the station conducted

Bengaluru: Expressing joy over BJP’s stellar performance in the Assembly byelections in Karnataka, the party’s state chief Nalin Kumar Kateel on Monday said Congress and JD(S) have been “disqualified” in the people’s court. “Siddaramaiah (Congress) and H D Kumaraswamy (JDS) had created a narrativ

The Karnataka Textbooks Society, which was due to submit its report on Tipu in school textbooks, has delayed submission. Several media reports suggested that the delay was due to political pressure as the committee recommended that the chapter on Tipu remains, in its draft report. The special com

Bengaluru: Sleuths from Central Crime Branch (CCB) acting on the complaints that bookies of the Bangalore Turf Club (BTC) the have been involved in illegal activities, raided the BTC and seized Rs 96 lakh cash. During the raid, the CCB officials seized Rs 96 lakh cash and detained 40 men, includi