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Court reserves order on bail pleas of 16 accused in Gauri Lankesh murder case

Bengaluru: The principal city civil and sessions court reserved orders on bail petitions filed by 16 of the 18 accused arrested in connection with the Gauri Lankesh murder case on Friday to Feb 7th. Amol Kale, Parashuram Waghmore, Amit Baddi, Ganesh Miskin, Manohar Edave, Sujit Kumar, Rajesh Bang

Five Kannadigas chosen for Padma Shri

Bengaluru: 112 achievers from the country including five from Karnataka have been chosen for Padma awards. Four have won Padma Bhushan, 14 have been selected for Padma Vibhushan, with the remaining 94 being selected for Padma Shri awards, announced the union government. The five achievers selecte

Bengaluru-bound passenger held with 8 live bullet rounds in bag at IGI airport

Bengaluru/New Delhi: A Bengaluru-bound passenger has been apprehended at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying eight live bullet rounds in his baggage, an official said Thursday. A Central Industrial Security Force officer, deputed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) to scan the

SC allows Karnataka to file appeal against HC order on iron ore mining in state

Bengaluru/New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday granted two weeks to Karnataka government for filing an appeal against a high court decision that paved the way for resumption of iron ore mining by some firms from certain mines in the state. The Karnataka High Court on November 16 last year had se

Our mission is to see Rahul Gandhi as PM: HDK

Bengaluru: Janata Dal-Secular will work together towards their goal to see Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Minister of the country, said Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. Despite Rahul's statement that Mamata Banerjee is an able candidate, JDS party wants to support Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial c

Video of boy stopping devotees from wasting food, goes viral

Bengaluru: An eighth standard student hogged the limelight at Siddaganga mutt a day after 111-year-old Sri Shivakumara Swamiji’s funeral by not letting the devotees wasting the food served to them. This humble act of the student named Shivu which was recorded on camera has gone viral on social media

Karnataka: Television screens to go blank on Thursday from 6 AM to 10 PM

Bengaluru: Television screens in Bengaluru and other parts of the state are likely to go blank on Thursday, January 24 from 6 AM to 10 PM as the Cable TV operators in Bengaluru and other parts of the state have decided to switch off the service in protest against the new cable policy of the union go

Karnataka number 1 in forest fires, as per survey report

Bengaluru: The final report of the Forest Survey of India (FSI) stated that Karnataka state ranks No. 1 in the number of forest fire cases in the year 2018. The report has left central officials worried as the forest fire season has just started. With 77 forest fires in the Karnataka tops the lis

Congress suspends MLA Ganesh over resort brawl

Bengaluru: Congress in Karnataka on Monday suspended its MLA J N Ganesh who allegedly hit his lawmaker colleague Anand Singh during an alleged brawl at private resort here on Saturday night. As serious allegations have been made with regards to the incident, on the orders of KPCC President Dinesh

Bangalore airport to curtail flights for 10 days in February

Bengaluru: The Bangalore airport will be partially closed for commercial operations for over 10 days next month owing to the five-day long Aero India Show being held in the Karnataka capital, aerodrome operator BIAL said on Monday. The air show is scheduled to be held at the Yelahanka air base in

Shivakumara Swami, dies at 111. Politicians unite in Grief

BENGALURU: Dr Shivakumara Swami, the seer who headed the Sree Siddaganga Mutt in Karnataka's Tumakuru, has died at 111 after weeks of treatment. Shivakumara Swami had been unwell for a while and had been on life support for the past two weeks. Karnataka will observe three-day mourning and schools

5 rooms, personal cook: Probe reveals VIP facilities for Sasikala

Bengaluru: Ousted AIADMK leader VK Sasikala was given special treatment in a prison in Bengaluru, where she is serving imprisonment in a corruption case, according to the report by an inquiry committee that went into allegations by a senior police official, an RTI query has revealed. The 295-page

Bengaluru techie beats up her rapist with a hammer, helps police with crucial clues

Twenty three-year-old Reema*, a techie with a prominent software company in Bengaluru, had come home after work on Friday. Reema was alone at home when an unidentified man broke open the door of her apartment in Chinnappanahalli. "Around 4.15 pm on Friday, I was inside my bedroom, when I heard a lou

'Fight' lands Karnataka lawmaker in hospital? "Chest pain," says Congress

NEW DELHI: A Congress lawmaker has ended up in hospital, allegedly after a brawl with a party colleague last evening at a resort, where they were moved on Friday. Anand Singh was hospitalised after he was allegedly hit on the head with a bottle by JN Ganesh at Bengaluru's Eagleton resort, the local

Cows made to walk through fire in Karnataka. Where are the gau rakshaks?

It is high time that cows come out in the open and protest. If not anywhere else, they should do it in India. In the past few years, much has been milked in their name. From asking votes, forming forces (gau rakshal dal) to "protect" them, to attacking and lynching people on the mere suspicion that

Karnataka urged to formulate scheme for Saudi returnees

The Saudi Arabia-based Indian Social Forum (Eastern Province), a platform of Indian expats living in Saudi Arabia, has urged the Karnataka government to formulate a scheme to help the Kannadigas returning home from Saudi Arabia in the wake of the job crisis there. Addressing presspersons in Manga

We will fan the fire between coalition partners: MLA CT Ravi

Bengaluru: While BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa termed as baseless allegations of 'Operation Lotus' and said that no member of his party was involved in any operation to topple the Congress-JD(S) coalition government, BJP general secretary, C T Ravi admitted that his party was merely fanning the

Justice Lingappa Narayana Swamy appointed Karnataka HC acting CJ

Bengaluru: Justice Lingappa Narayana Swamy was on Thursday appointed as the acting chief justice of the Karnataka High Court following the elevation of its chief justice Dinesh Maheshwari to the Supreme Court. A law ministry notification said Swamy, the senior-most judge of the Karnataka High Cou