The deaths of two persons in the firing by Mangaluru police during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will now be probed by the CID. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had earlier assured that there will be a CID inquiry into the police firing that killed two people in the anti-CAA stir

Bengaluru: The newly-elected Karnataka MLAs, who won the recent by-polls on Sunday took oath at the Vidhan Soudha. Karnataka Speaker Vishweshwara Hegde administer the oath. The by-polls to 15 constituencies were held on 5 December, after sitting MLAs resigned in July, triggering the collapse o

Amidst large-scale protests across India against the Citizenship Amendment Act, several right-wing groups held a protest in support of the CAA on Sunday in Bengaluru. Around 500 people had gathered at Bengaluru’s Town Hall at 10 am and began shouting slogans supporting the CAA. Supporters and mem

Owing to curfew announced in parts of Mangaluru following law and order issues during Thursday’s anti-CAA protests, the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has postponed its exam set to be held on Friday. In a press release, the Registrar of Evaluation said, “In view of the announcement of

New Delhi/Bengaluru: The Supreme Court Collegium has approved names of five Additional Judges of Karnataka High Court as permanent Judges. The judges whose names have been recommended are Justices Dixit Krishna Shripad, Shankar Ganapathi Pandit, Ramakrishna Devdas, Bhotanhosur Mallikarjuna Shyam

Bengaluru: In line with its plans to phase out 3G technology across India, Bharti Airtel (Airtel) on Thursday announced that it has shut down its 3G network in Karnataka. Airtel mobile broadband services in Karnataka will now be available to customers on its high speed 4G network along with HD qu

Bengaluru: Home Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Tuesday, December 17 said that the Citizenship Act (CAA) will be implemented in the state. Addressing media persons at Vidhan Soudha Bommai said, “As both the houses of the Parliament have passed the bill, it is mandatory to implement CAA in all the

Belagavi: A migrant labourer woman from Maharashtra recently gave birth to her 17th baby in a sugarcane field in Belagavi, however, the infant did not survive. Lankabai (full name not disclosed), a resident of Majalgaon tehsil of Maharashtra’s Beed district, gave birth to a baby girl in a sugarca

Bengaluru: In a tragic incident an LKG boy was killed on the spot after being run over by his own school bus. The victim has been identified as Deekshit, 4, the only son of Manu and Suneeta couple. On Monday afternoon, the bus is said to have arrived before time and dropped off Deekshit at his

Police in Karnataka have booked members of the governing body of a school run by the RSS in Dakshina Kannada’s Bantwal after a video of students re-enacting the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition was circulated. Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Laxmi Prasad told the media that Kalladka Prabhakar

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