The police in Bengaluru detained as many as 60 persons on Saturday, suspecting them to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. There were 29 men, 22 women and nine children, police said. At a press conference led by City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao, the police said that these suspected illegal

More than two weeks after a missing case was registered, Mangaluru City Police (MCP) discovered the skeletal remains of a 16-year-old girl in a forest area behind her residence on Saturday evening. Based on the preliminary findings, the jurisdictional police said that they suspect it to be remains o

"DK Saheb is arriving. The whole city will celebrate," blared a song, tailor-made for the arrival of Kanakpura MLA DK Shivakumar in Bengaluru. Thousands of Congress party workers and fans of the former Water Resource Minister gathered outside the Devanahalli Toll Plaza in Bengaluru at around 12 pm

On Thursday, forest officials in Bandipur Tiger Reserve were faced with a tough operation - to capture an elephant which had attacked two residents of a village on the periphery of the tiger reserve. The elephant was fitted with a GPS-enabled radio collar just a month ago but forest officials inv

Bengaluru: A first-year B Sc (Agriculture) student of the University of Agriculture Sciences in Bengaluru is suspected to have ended his life by jumping before a moving train allegedly due to ragging by his seniors. The deceased has been identified as Gagan, a native of Gauribidanur in Kolar. His

Bengaluru/New Delhi: Two days after the Delhi high court granted bail to Congress leader DK Shivakumar in a money laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against bail order. Earlier on October 23, the Delhi High Court Justice Sures

The BJP’s predicted victory in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly poll results on Thursday is now expected to turn the Assembly bye-polls in Karnataka scheduled on December 5 from hotly contested to determining the credentials and political survival of two personalities – state Chief Minister BS Y

Mysuru: The farmers on Thursday threw heaps of vegetable including tomato, cauliflower and others on the road at APMC Market in Mysuru, following a reduction in their prices. Heavy rainfall in the state since the past few days in the state is creating a desperate situation for the farmers where t

Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar, who was lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with a money laundering case, was awarded bail by the Delhi High Court on Wednesday. Justice Suresh Kait granted relief to the Congress leader saying that Shivakumar is not a flight risk. The judge also said that

Bengaluru: Bengaluru City North division police and sleuths of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) intensified their raids on the ganja racket operating in the city. The North division police arrested 24 people and CCB police seven across the city. The North division police under the directions of

The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a red warning for all the three districts of coastal Karnataka for the next three days starting from Wednesday. An orange warning has been issued to some districts of north and south interior Karnataka. The red warning means the coastal dist

Mangaluru: In a shocking incident a Maruti Omni car went soaring in the air before crashing down after ramming into the compound wall of a mosque at Farangipet here on Tuesday, October 22 afternoon. Five persons sustained injuries in the accident. A CCTV footage of the accident shows the car, bel

Bengaluru: Karnataka State Prisons Department will be releasing 141 prisoners from various prisons across the state on Monday on account of good conduct. Minister V Somanna will distribute the certificate of good conduct for the prisoners at the main event at Parappana Agrahara. The inmate who

A minor explosion was reported on Monday afternoon at the office of the station master at Hubballi Railway Station in Karnataka. According to reports, three persons were injured as a result of the explosion. Hubbali is the headquarters of the South Western Railway division of the Indian Railways.

Around 50 students writing the mid-term examination at a college in Karnataka's Haveri district were forced to wear cartons on their heads to avoid copying in exams. The pictures of students of Bhagat PU college wearing cartons on their heads and writing the exam inside a classroom were shared wi

Bengaluru: A PU college lecturer of Basaveshwara Pre-University College in Rajajinagar was terminated from service after a video of him physically assaulting a student in the classroom went viral on Friday. The college management conducted an inquiry into the incident which is said to have occurr

Bengaluru: Karnataka has topped the first-ever innovation ranking of states, followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharasthra, a Niti Aayog sponsored report said on Thursday. Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, on the other hand, trailed on the list. The India Innovation Index 2019, developed on the

Kalaburgi: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Govind M. Karjol on Thursday informed the 85th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana will be held in January 2020. Addressing pressperson here he said, “The by-elections in the state will be held on December 5, therefore all the government officials will be busy wit