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

In another jolt to the Congress, KC Ramamurthy, the party’s Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka and former IPS officer is all set to join rival party BJP ahead of the Assembly byepolls. Ramamurthy confirmed the development to the media. According to reports, his resignation from the Upper house of the

Bengaluru: The state governmnet on Tuesday, October 15 appointed a transgender and a former Devadasi B Manjamma Jogathi as the chairperson of Karnataka Janapada Academy. Karnataka Rajyotsava awardee B Manjamma Jogathi is known for her dance troupe ‘Jogappa Tanda’ which is well-known artiste acros

The grand structure of Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, the seat of the legislature in Karnataka, seems to have a rat and pest problem. On Monday, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa was forced to face the issue ahead of official meetings in a committee room. According to the Deccan Herald, when

When the artworks of nine youngsters on the autism spectrum from Bengaluru were displayed at the Kochi Biennale earlier in February, Anima Nair, the co-founder of the academy that works with the youth, was very happy. Little did she know though, that thanks to the traction the artwork got at the Bie

The state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is bracing for an indefinite strike from Monday by its 20,000 employees over wage revision and other demands, a union official said on Sunday. "As talks and reconciliation efforts with the management failed on our demands, especially wage revision, we

New Delhi/Bengaluru: The Delhi High court on Monday postponed the bail application of former minister DK Shivakumar, who is facing ED probe in the case of money laundering. Shivakumar’s lawyer Abhishek Singhvi had applied for the bail hearing of which has been postponed till 3:30 pm on Tuesday.

Five days after Karnataka Forest Department officials began a hunt for a maneater responsible for killing a farmer in Karnataka’s Bandipur area, the tiger was finally captured on Sunday afternoon, after being shot with tranquilizers. Department officials confirmed that the tiger is in a healthy con

Mandya: Srirangapatna circle deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Yoganand was admitted to a hospital after he allegedly attempted suicide at his residence by slashing his nerves. Yoganand reportedly slashed the nerves of his hands and legs at his residence in Baburayanakoppalu of the taluk.

New Delhi: The CBI on Friday filed its charge sheet against BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar and others in connection with the Unnao rape survivor's accident in which two of her relatives were killed. In its first chargesheet filed before a special CBI court in Lucknow, the agency charged Sengar and all ot