Bengaluru: The crucial byelection to 15 Karnataka assembly constituencies that would have a bearing on the stability of the B S Yediyurappa-led BJP government saw an estimated 66.49 per cent voter turn out on Thursday and was by and large peaceful. After a slow pace in the first half of the day s

Bengaluru: BJP candidate K C Ramamurthy was on Thursday declared elected unopposed to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Karnataka, for which bypoll was necessitated following his resignation as the Congress member. “With other political parties not fielding any candidates, and nomination of two inde

Kannur: Twenty gold biscuits worth Rs 90 lakh and found abandoned were seized from a flight that arrived here from Abu Dhabi early on Wednesday, airport sources said. Security personnel noticed a packet underneath a seat of the Go Air flight during an inspection after all passengers disembarked a

Traffic police in Bengaluru on Tuesday went on a crackdown against errant autorickshaw drivers who refused to ply on metered fares or denied rides in three out of the seven zones of the city. To catch offenders in the act, police officials posed as regular commuters in prime junctions under these zo

Bengaluru: Noted Kannada poet and writer Dr. H S Venkateshmurthy was on Wednesday selected to preside over the 3-day 85th Akhil Bharat Kannada Sahitya Sammelan that is slated to be held in Kalaburagi between February 5 –7. Venkateshmurthy’s name was decided during a meeting of Kannada Sahitya

Bengaluru: Ahead of the December 5 by-polls in the state, Static Surveillance Teams (SSTs) seized cash worth Rs 42,00,000 in the last 24 hours. The official press release with this regard stated, “Static Surveillance Teams have seized cash worth Rs 42,00,000 in the last 24 hours. Cumulatively, th

Bengaluru: The state government has announced a holiday to all government offices, schools and colleges, in the constituencies that will go for by-polls on December 5. Vidhana Soudha, Vikas Soudha and offices in MS Building would function, as usual, read a notification released by the state gover

Bengaluru: A bail plea filed by the pontiff of ‘Kitcchu Gutti Maramma Temple’ at Chamarajanagara district, where 17 persons had died on December 14, 2018, and as many as 164 persons sustained severe health problems due to consumption of poisonous prasadam, was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Monda

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) has decided to allow women to carry pepper spray as a means of self-defense. This after stiff opposition both online and offline over the unofficial ban on women being allowed to carry pepper spray on the metro. Speaking with The Hindu, BL Yeshwan

The Bengaluru Police on Sunday arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly abducting his 13-year-old cousin and demanding a ransom of Rs 50 lakh. The Banaswadi police, who nabbed Moin Khan, rescued the boy within 12 hours of receiving the ransom call. Moin Khan was allegedly upset with his father an

Mysuru: Senior Congress leader M. Veerappa Moily said that there is no doubt that a Congress-JD(S) government will come to power again after the December 5 byelections. He was speaking to the media here on Sunday. He said, “The BJP has to win at least eight seats, else the BJP government in th

Bengaluru: A 60-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of her newborn grandchild in Bengaluru’s Myadarahalli. The accused identified as Parameshwari was allegedly upset over the birth of a girl child and wanted to get rid of her, the police said. The incident occurred on Friday night

The police in Bengaluru are on the lookout for two men who allegedly stabbed a head constable while he was taking them to the RT Nagar Police Station. They have been booked for attempt to murder. The two accused— Mardhan and Kandala— were detained by the police after there were complaints that some

The Bengaluru Police have busted an international drug trafficking ring allegedly operating from Canada via the dark web and arrested two peddlers on Friday. Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao said that the drugs were being shipped using Amazon’s packaging cover. The Central Crime Branch, whi

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board on Friday announced the final timetable for SSLC March/April 2020 examinations in the state. As per the timetable released, the examinations are scheduled to be held between March 27 and April 9, 2020. SSLC Examination Timetable

Bengaluru: CCB Anti-Narcotics Wing of Bengaluru Police on Thursday busted an international drug racket and arrested one person along with drugs worth Rs. one crore in a major breakthrough in crackdown on the drug supply and mafia in the state. The arrested person has been identified as Atif Salim

Bengaluru: Police have booked former chief ministers Siddaramaiah and H D Kumaraswamy along with the then Bengaluru police commissioner T Sunil Kumar, his subordinates and some Congress and JD(S) leaders on sedition charges for protesting the income tax raids during Lok Sabha polls. Based on a co

Bengaluru: Central Crime Branch arrested eight people, who were honey-trapped and blackmailed politicians and businessmen in the city. The police are yet to reveal the identities of the accused. As per the sources, a Whitefield-based woman, who was the member of this gang used to honeytrap men. A