Bengaluru residents, your electricity bills will get more expensive from June onwards. This after the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on Thursday announced a hike of 33 paise per unit for Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) customers. Officials said this would effecti

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister elect Narendra Modi in Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday. The Chief Minister said that he will also meet Rahul Gandhi during his Delhi visit and ask him to continue as the president of the AICC. The ann

Bengaluru: The state government has issued a notification on the appointment of the retired police officer and KPCC secretary GA Bava as the Chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Commission with immediate effects. The deputy director of Minority Welfare, Haj & Wakf Department Akram Pasha

The Karnataka government plans to pacify the opposition to the proposed elevated corridor by installing open-air purifiers and carbon absorbent machines along the 102-km long network. “These are not the regular air purifiers or carbon-absorbing machines, but they are of high capacity and advanced

A head constable in Karnataka's Hubli rural police station turned his fibre-made lathi (cane) into a flute to play folk songs as a hobby. "Making musical instruments and playing them have been my hobby for long. I turned the fibre lathi, given to me for policing, into a flute to play folk songs w

The Karnataka Union of Working Journalists on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy condemning the FIR registered against editor-in-chief of Vishwavani for publishing an article about Nikhil Kumaraswamy, the CM’s son. In a letter, the president of the association Shivanand Tagadooru wrot

The death of Shivakumar Uppar, a teenager from Belagavi, took a communal turn on Monday when many people including BJP leaders took to social media claiming that he was murdered for protecting cows. Belagavi police investigating the incident confirmed that Shivakumar took his own life on Saturday ni

The Bengaluru Airport office of low cost airline AIrAsia received a threat call on Sunday warning of possible danger to its flight I5-588 travelling between Bagdogra in north Bengal to Kolkata. The caller warned that he “would not be responsible” if anyone was hurt on board that flight. However,

Moderate rains and gale in Bengaluru over the weekend has resulted in the death of one man. Satish, aged 35, was killed after he stamped on a live electric wire near his house which had fallen due to the strong winds. Bengaluru Mayor Gangambika Mallikarjun visited the house of the deceased and me

As many as 523 children have been rescued in Bengaluru division over the last one year, according to Railway Protection Force. This makes the Bengaluru division the worst affected in terms of child trafficking in the entire South Western Railways region. “In the last one year, the RPF team Operat

On Friday, next to the bustling traffic during the evening rush hour at Town Hall in Bengaluru, stood hundreds of people. Protesting and demanding action on climate change from the government, the protesters carried placards and banners reading “I want you to panic”, “Denial is not a policy”, “Winte

The Bengaluru city police arrested two men on Friday after a senior citizen who was travelling in an autorickshaw was seriously injured on May 22 due to the construction of the city’s metro. Sharath and Shivakumar, who work for URC Construction Private Limited, were in charge of overseeing part o

Newly elected MP Sumalatha Ambareesh paid tribute to her late husband actor Ambareesh at his memorial in Bengaluru on Friday. A visibly emotional Sumalatha was seen alongside her son Abhishek paying her respects to Ambareesh, a day after she was elected as the MP of Mandya as an independent candidat

The Congress and the BJP have secured one seat each in the bye-elections to two Assembly seats in Karnataka - Chincholi and Kundgol. BJP's Avinash Jadhav won from the Chincholi Assembly constituency, securing 69,109 votes, while the Congress’s Kusuma Shivalli won from the Kundgol constituency with 7

Hassan is the only constituency that the JD(S) has won in Karnataka, however the candidate who won -- HD Deve Gowda's grandson Prajwal Revanna -- has now claimed he wants to step down from his Parliamentarian post despite his massive victory, saying he had no reason to rejoice as the election brough

A 16-year-old boy died on Wednesday, two days after he consumed prasadam at a temple in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district. At least 20 others who also consumed the prasadam have been hospitalised since then. The prasadam was served to devotees at the Veerabhadreshwara Swamy temple in Nidagal village of

Bengaluru: Independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh has defeated Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy with a margin of over 1 lakh votes. Sumalatha Ambareesh is the wife of three-time Congress MP and film star Ambareesh who died last year. She contested as an Independent

With exit polls predicting a thumping victory for the BJP in Karnataka, the party’s state President BS Yeddyurappa said that 20-22 Congress MLAs would join the BJP after the Lok Sabha election results are announced. "Many exit polls have predicted that BJP will 20-23 seats. Ever since election ca