The All India Congress Committee on Thursday announced the names of candidates for eight of the 15 Assembly constituencies, where the bye-elections are slated to be held on December 5. The party has carefully selected both veteran and new leaders to contest polls in several crucial segments. The

Bengaluru: Two days after the state government announced Kannada Rajyotsava awards for 64 people in their respective field for their distinguished work, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in Karnataka High Court against the announcement awards recipients. However, the PIL is y

Tension prevailed in Mandya's KR Pete on Monday after 16 activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) were arrested on suspicion that they were involved in weapons training. All 16 activists, who were arrested on Sunday from Alambadi village in Mandya, were released on bail a day later after it

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday assured he will speak to the Assembly Speaker regarding the decision to restrict camera persons from covering the proceedings of the session, and willmake honest efforts to restore earlier system. “…I will try to convince him (Speak

Mangaluru: Mangaluru North Division ACP Srinivas Gowda has issued a charge memo to Mulki Police station in-charge inspector and sub-inspector for deputing a woman constable, who is in the ninth month of her pregnancy on bandobast duty during the visit of Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan.

The body of two-year-old Sujith Wilson who fell into an abandoned borewell at Nadukattupatti near Manapparai on Friday evening, was recovered early Tuesday. The body was reportedly 'highly decomposed and dismembered' when it was finally retrieved from the borewell by personnel of the National Dis

Mangaluru: Barke police on Monday, October 28 arrested three youths for consuming ganja in an apartment at Ballabagh. The arrested identified as Mohammed Nasir (18), a Sakleshpur resident, and Hemanth Tamas (21) and Kuruvilla George (21) both from Kerala have been booked under Narcotic Drugs and

Mangaluru: Family members of a man who was electrocuted to death on Friday, October 25 staged a protest outside a private hospital in the city after the hospital handed over the decomposed body of the deceased to family. It may be recalled that Wilson Fernandes (26), died of electrocution near Ka

Bengaluru: A Mysuru-based woman has been fined Rs 25,000 by the Karnataka High Court for filing a false case against her former husband only to harass him. Justice P S Dinesh Kumar who was hearing the case quashed the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioner, Faisal Ahmed Khan, a resid

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