Kalaburagi: In a horrific road accident five people including two infants were killed when their Scorpio car rammed into a parked truck near Savalagi cross near Kalaburagi on late Monday night. The deceased have been identified as Sanjay Kumar Chadachane (29), Rani Sanjay Chadachane (26), Shreyas

Is Karnataka going to have three Deputy Chief Ministers? Speculation is rife in the Karnataka BJP that the party’s national leaders are mulling over appointing three Deputy Chief Ministers in the state, much like the Andhra Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy who appointed five Deputy CMs. Speaking

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea by the 17 disqualified MLAs of Karnataka, who sought an urgent hearing on the matter of their disqualification. These MLAs of the former JD(S)-Congress coalition government had resigned from their positions to pave way for the BJP to form a government in t

Less than a month after the death of serial entrepreneur and Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, his father Gangaiah Hegde passed away on Sunday in Gopala Gowda Shanthaveri Memorial Hospital in Mysuru. Gangaiah Hegde, 95, was in a coma for a prolonged period of time and was unaware of his son’s death.

As part of its move to implement the ban on single-use plastics, the city’s civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has seized numerous plastics from various shops. Now, what happens to these plastics that have been seized? Well, the Bengaluru International Airport has come up with a

Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramaiah on Friday blamed former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and his son HD Kumaraswamy for toppling the coalition government. In a lengthy diatribe against his (once) political rival, Siddaramaiah said, “I am not someone who will stoop to the lev

A Kolkata woman was brutally murdered allegedly by a cab driver who tried to rob her on the way to Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on July 31, according to reports. The cab driver, HM Nagesh, a resident of Hegganahalli Cross, was caught on August 21 after investigations by the local

For 28-year-old Abdul Rauf, a resident of Govindoor at Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada district, the internet is rare to come by, let alone communicating through a satellite phone. So, he was surprised when he was recently labelled a ‘terror suspect’ by a section of the media, which alleged that he

A heist attempt by an armed gang at a jewellery shop in Bengaluru’s Vyalikaval was foiled due to the alertness and quick-thinking of the owner. The incident happened at Samrat Jewels, a gold jewellery shop in Bengaluru’s Vyalikaval on Wednesday afternoon, reported Bangalore Mirror. After three me

Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel was appointed as the new BJP state President for Karnataka on Tuesday. Nalin replaces outgoing President BS Yediyurappa who completed his three-year term. The appointment was announced in a memo issued by Arun Singh, National General Secretary of the BJP.

A high- level committee headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah has approved an additional central assistance to 3 states which experienced natural disasters in 2018. A total of Rs 4432.10 crore has been approved for Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha, according to a press release by the Ministr

BENGALURU: Rajajinagar police on Monday arrested a 15-year-old girl and her boyfriend for allegedly killing her father after he took away her mobile phone and restricted her movements. The arrested is Praveen (19), a resident of Subramanyanagar and first-year B.Com student at a private college.

Bengaluru: More than three weeks after he was sworn in as the Chief Minister, B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday expanded his ministry by inducting 17 ministers into his Cabinet. This is the first Cabinet expansion after he assumed office on July 26 and proved his government’s majority on the floor of th

In a video that has gone viral on social media, a group of pro-Kannada activists can be seen shouting slogans against the exclusion of Kannada in a hoarding that was in Hindi. As the sloganeering continues, several activists can be seen climbing a ladder and slashing the hoarding with knives. The

Five students aged 14-16 years were electrocuted to death in a freak mishap on the terrace of a residential school building in Karnataka's Koppal town, police said on Sunday. "The tragic incident occurred when the boys were removing a 15-feet iron pole mounted on a mud-filled drum used to hoist t

With the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi fast approaching, authorities in Bengaluru have tightened their noose on the use of Plaster of Paris (PoP) to make idols. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been on a war footing in seizing such idols that enter the city and those made in traditio

Karnataka received 279% more than normal rainfall between August 3 and 10, the highest recorded in the state in 118 years, an analysis of the heavy rainfall reported. The rainfall led to 'unprecedented' floods and landslides in 21 of the 30 districts in the state. It took the lives of 61 people w

After an alert was sounded by the police in Bengaluru on Saturday, rumours of the ‘possibility of a terrorist cell active in Bengaluru’ began to do the rounds on WhatsApp and social media. However, Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao has dismissed such messages and has asked people to refrain