Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda Saturday said the coalition government in Karnataka was functioning "smoothly", as he indicated that the party was looking for 12 out of 28 seats in the state to contest during next year's Lok Sabha polls. The statement comes days

New Delhi/Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has requested the Centre to include the Siddi community of the state in the list of Scheduled Tribes, Parliament has been informed. The Siddis, believed to be the descendants of the Bantu people in East Africa, inhabit the Belgaum and Dharwad regions

Bengaluru: The Vidhana Soudha police on Friday, December 28 arrested a man, who had allegedly forged a recommendation letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to get a typist job in the Karnataka High Court. The accused Sanjay Kumar hailing from Belagavi is a BSc. graduate and had done a typist

Bengaluru: ACB officials on Friday conducted surprise raids at residences of corrupt officials on Friday morning. The raids were conducted simultaneously across 17 places in the state including Bengaluru, Chinthamani, Hunsur, Udupi, Mysuru, Davanagere, Chikkamagaluru, Karwar and Mangaluru. Amo

Bengaluru: Slain journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh's sister Kavitha Lankesh on Thursday came out against any move to handover the probe in the case to the CBI, saying the Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police had made a lot of progress, arresting 16 suspects. Kavitha said if the stat

Bengaluru: Portfolios of newly inducted ministers of the H D Kumaraswamy-led coalition cabinet is likely to be announced Thursday, party leaders said, as they grappled with problems of dissent and portfolio allocation. The leaders also sought to downplay the dissidence within the party, even as e

Kolar: A 20-year-old youth was charred to death after his bike collided with a private bus at Kolar-Bangarpet Road on Wednesday, December 26. The deceased is identified as Neeraj, a BE student of Reva engineering college and resident of Vivekanand Nagar of Bangarpet in Kolar district. The acci

Athani: A tanker filled with petrol toppled after the driver of the vehicle lost control near Jamboti road in Halyala village of Athani taluk on Sunday night. The petrol tanker belongs to S R Company and was plying from Mumbai to Bengaluru when the incident occurred along Jamboti road. The impact

Mysuru: In a tragic incident, a 28-year-old tribal youth who had gone to collect firewood from Bairakuppa in the Nagarhole tiger reserve was killed by a tiger on Sunday, December 23. The deceased is identified as Krishna alias Madhu, son of Dasan a resident of the Manimule haadi tribal settlement

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has today dismissed claims that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was planning to contest the upcoming 2019 general elections from Karnataka, apart from Amethi. Speaking on the issue he said that there was no such proposal. “Party is ready and prepared, no s

Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is under fire from the BJP over his comment on camera about instructing someone to kill the attackers of a local Janata Dal(Secular) leader “mercilessly in a shootout”. Leaders of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party have said Kumaraswamy’s statement after

Bengaluru: Amid growing dissent in the Congress following the Karnataka cabinet rejig a day ago, former chief minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday, December 23 set aside any rebellion in the party. Two legislators, Ramesh Jarkiholi and Independent R Shankar, were dropped in Saturday's cabinet expansio

Bengaluru: Former additional chief secretary, V Balasubramanian on Sunday, December 23 said that more than Rs 50,000 crore will have to be apid for the restoration and rejuvenation of the major waterbodies within the city. Addressing an event organised by Bengaluru Environment Trust Balasubramani

Bengaluru: The HAL police held two persons for illegally flying a drone near HAL airport on December 15. The detained persons, Syed, 24, and Bharath, 28, are residents of Whitefield and work for an advertisement company. On Thursday, Krishna Naik, chief manager, Helicopter Division of HAL, had

Bengaluru: Flight operations at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) were disrupted between 6:30 am to 7:30 am on Saturday, December 22 owing to poor visibility conditions caused by the dense winter fog. As many as 65 flights were delayed owing to the fog conditions informed sources at the airp

Kartnaka Congress on Saturday appointed HK Patil as the new campaign committee Chairman. Patil is replacing DK Shivakumar, the Minister for Water Resources and Medical Education in Karnataka government. The party released an official communique on Twitter informing about the change. Patil is a

Bengaluru: In two separate incidents in Karnataka, at least 140 students were on Thursday hospitalised following suspicion of food poisoning in mid-day meals. In both schools, students reported to having seen a lizard in the food they were served. What is strange, however, is that the two inciden

BENGALURU, DECEMBER 21: Karnataka is offering a bonus of ₹425 per quintal for tur (redgram) growers, over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of ₹5,675 for the pulses crop. The total pay-out for tur growers will be ₹6,100 a quintal for the 2018-19 season. Farmers have been asked to