In a shocking incident, a man strangled his one and a half month old infant, allegedly because he was disappointed that she was a girl. The incident occurred at Buchenahalli Kaval in Chikmagalur taluk on Tuesday and a man named Manjunath, a daily wage worker, has been arrested in connection with

A 23-year-old man working as a food delivery executive with Swiggy in Bengaluru was attacked on Monday night after he was suspected of being a thief. The incident took place in Marathahalli and the victim Liton Das is currently being treated at St John’s Hospital. According to his complaint with

A Bengaluru sessions court denied bail to an ambulance driver who was arrested earlier this month after his vehicle hit a car coming from the opposite direction killing a family of five near Yelahanka, according to reports. The ambulance driver, driving a government-run ambulance of the National

Congress leader and former minister Roshan Baig, who recently criticised senior Congress leaders over poor results in the Lok Sabha elections and has been linked to a Ponzi scheme in his constituency, was suspended by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Tuesday. He was suspended fo

Officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested a woman recruited to smuggle drugs from Bengaluru to Doha with the contraband concealed inside sanitary pads. She was arrested along with three others who accompanied her at the Kempegowda International Airport's (KIA) premises and it led to t

Kolar: In a shocking incident a BJP leader died following an electric shock, in a suspected short circuit at his residence in Bazaar Street, Bangarpet here. The deceased is TS Nagaprakash, 58, vice-president of Kolar BJP District unit. As per the sources, Nagaprakash woke up at 3.30 AM and whe

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Secondary Education Board informed that the SSLC supplementary examinations will be held from June 21 to 28. The Board has appealed the police department to impose prohibitory order around the exam centers and close down Xerox centers on date of examinations from 9 am to

Bengaluru: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday condemning the assault on doctors in West Bengal said “I condemn the attack on the doctors and request the doctors on strike today to ensure that their protest is peaceful and does not cause any problems to the patients.” Kumaraswamy in a tweet s

A forest official in Karnataka's Kodagu district was suspended a week after the issue of over 800 trees being axed on private land came to light. Deputy Conservator of Forest, Madikeri division, ML Manjunath, was suspended on Friday. Until a replacement for Manjunath is announced, Maria Christu R

BJP Karnataka chief BS Yeddyurappa spent Friday night participating in the two-day round-the-clock dharna against the sale of 3,667 acres of land to JSW Steel at a “throwaway” price. The BJP protest was also aimed at the government’s alleged insensitivity towards the ponzi scheme victims and neglige

Bengaluru: A 36-year-old woman was on Thursday tied to a pole and beaten up mercilessly by few perons in full public view allegedly over non-repayment of loan raised by her. The incident was reported from Kodigehalli in Ramanagara district, which is represented by chief minister Kumaraswamy. T

The Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in Karnataka inducted two Independent legislators in the Cabinet on Friday, ANI reported. Independent MLA H Nagesh and Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party legislator R Shankar took oath at Raj Bhavan. The ruling alliance now has 119 members

Bengaluru: Weeks after the Cabinet approved the proposal of 4th Saturday holiday the state government on Wednesday, June 12 issued notification declaring public holiday on fourth Saturday of every month. The notification was issued by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR).

The two-year-long investigation into the alleged Rs 40 crore misappropriation in Karnataka’s Minor Irrigation department has finally concluded. The Criminal Investigation Department, on Tuesday, filed a 1.23 lakh-page charge sheet in the Koppala JMFC Court. “The charge sheet has been filed agains

Bengaluru: A mistake by banks in the classification of crop loans leading to their reversal in thousands of cases landed the JDS-Congress coalition regime in Karnataka in a spot, forcing Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy to issue a clarification stating that the crop loan waiver scheme was working just

Six directors of the I Monetary Advisory (IMA), a ‘halal ponzi scheme’, have surrendered to the police in Bengaluru on Tuesday, a day after the company grabbed the headlines. The surrender came a day ahead of the government forming a special investigating team to nab the culprits. According to De

Shivappa Jaye, a 60-year-old farmer from Sagar in Kalaburgi district, was overjoyed when the Karnataka government deposited money into his account as part of the state’s farm loan waiver promise, in April this year. But on June 3, weeks after the Lok Sabha elections were declared, the money disappea

Bengaluru police tracked down and arrested a youngster who appeared in a video performing death-defying stunts on a two-wheeler with a woman riding pillion. A special police team constituted to nab the man in the video that was widely shared online eventually arrested Noor Ahmed, a 21-year-old fr