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

Bidar: A local court on Tuesday gave anticipatory bail to Abdul Qadeer, chairman of the Shaheen Group of Institutions, Bidar, and four other members of the staff of the management in a sedition case filed against them for staging a play that was alleged to be derogatory to prime minister Narendra Mo

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government is contemplating to move a resolution in the ongoing budget session of the Assembly to implement the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA). Sensing strong opposition from the Congress to such a resolution, the government has decided to bring it through the back door, camouf

A 25-year-old Karnataka man was arrested on Sunday after Forest Department officials took note of a viral video of him killing a porcupine which was posted on his TikTok account. The accused has been identified as one Manjunath Biryalhissa, a native of Jewargi taluk in Karnataka’s north west Kala

A Karnataka doctor at a government hospital is in trouble after he allegedly consumed liquor while on duty and will now face a departmental inquiry. The accused has been identified as Dr Channakeshava. The incident of the doctor being inebriated while at work came to light on Saturday after staff

Tumakuru: A two and a half year old baby became the latest victim of a maneater leopard that has been terrorising villages in three taluks of Tumakuru district in Karnataka. The baby, Chandana, was playing in the front yard of her father’s farmhouse in Bychanahalli village in Tumakuru taluk, and

Bengaluru: State General Assembly of Popular Front of India(PFI), Karnataka state was held on 27 - 29 February 2020 in Puttur of Dakshina Kannada district. New office bearers for the term 2020 - 2022 were elected. Yasir Hassan was elected as new state president and Nasir Pasha Bangalore as State Gen

Mangaluru: Two construction labourers died and one seriously injured when the retaining wall alongside the site collapsed on Friday afternoon at Karangalpady in Mangaluru. Sources said that the incident took place around 1 am when the labourers were working at the site. The fire department off

Centenarian freedom fighter, vedic scholar and a former journalist who had witnessed the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Sudhakar Krishna Rao died on Thursday in Bengaluru. Known as Pandit Sudhakar “Chaturvedi” as he was well versed in the four vedas, the scholar died at his home in Bengaluru’s Jayanagar