Bengaluru: The Karnataka Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) results were announced on Tuesday with 73.7% students clearing their exams. This year, with a strength of 8,41,666 students, the pass percentage was 1.8% higher than in 2018. The Karnataka Class 10 results were declared by Umash

Bengaluru: Congress’ social media chief Ramya on Monday sparked another controversy by comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler. Ramya on Monday morning tweeted a picture of Hitler pulling the ears of a young girl, along with a picture of PM Modi, in which the Prime Minister is seen

Two persons were asphyxiated in a contaminated well here on Saturday. Gafoor Pasha, 40, and Aftab Pasha, 38, died of asphyxiation when they descended into the well behind Bismallah Tea Stall at K.G. Halli. The police have booked three persons under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavenge

Alleged negligence on part of the authorities has put the life of a nine-year-old boy at risk after he came in contact with a live electricity wire on Friday night. Saicharan was playing with three friends near Nagalingeshwara temple in Mahalakshmi Layout around 7 p.m. when the incident occurred.

Bengaluru: A airline passenger who opened the emergency exit door on the GoAir flight out of curiosity was detained briefly before being let off a warning at Bengaluru International Airport here. The man Sunil Kumar (24) had boarded the GoAir flight bound to Lucknow. He was seated on emergency ex

Security has been heightened in and around the city after terrorists targeted churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa in Sri Lanka. Eight people from Karnataka were killed in the bomb explosions. In the wake of the attacks, city police commissioner T. Suneel

Chamarajanagar: A 24-year-old pregnant woman and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter died after being set on fire allegedly by her husband and in-laws over a petty argument. The victims identified as Lakshmi and her daughter Praneetha were rushed to the Chamarajanagar district hospital by their

Mysuru: The pre- monsoon showers from January to May, which contribute 12 per cent of the state's annual rainfall, have intensified of late, but they are overall deficit by 20 per cent this year, according to the weathermen. But the storage of water in the dams of the Cauvery catchment area is ad

Bengaluru: An ambulance driver was arrested by the police for allegedly using his ambulance as a cab to ferry office-goers during peak traffic hours. The accused is identified as Bala. It is gathered that the incident came to light after one unsuspecting motorist, Rana Patel, had given way to

Bengaluru: A case of alleged sexual harassment filed against Bangalore South BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya has been dropped by the Karnataka State Commission for Women on Tuesday, April 23. It is gathered that the complaint was dropped by the Karnataka State Commission for Women after they received

Bengaluru: At least three students from the city died and six sustained injuries after a speeding lorry crashed into their broken down Tempo Traveller in Chitradurga on Monday, April 22. The deceased are Karthik Gowda (20), Harsha (20) and Sreenidhi (20), all students of Vijaya College in Basavan

Police officials in Kalaburagi shut down an operation run by the BJP IT cell in which the members of the cell were calling up voters from a room inside a government building in the district. Election flying squad officials along with police officials arrived at the office space after they receive

Bengaluru: Ride-hailing platform Ola is in discussions with luxury carmakers, including Audi, Mercedes and BMW, to launch a subscription-based service under its self-drive offering, according to sources. Ola has been running a small-scale pilot of the self-drive service in Bengaluru currently, an

Bengaluru: Two JD(S) workers from Karnataka, who were on a visit to Sri Lanka, have died in the multiple blasts in the island country, according to Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy. "External affairs Min. @SushmaSwaraj has confirmed the death of two Kannadigas, KG Hanumantharayappa and M

Chikkamagaluru: In a tragic accident, a driver of an oil tanker died after the tanker rammed into a bridge near Birur in Kadur taluk. The deceased has been identified as Lingaraju (50) a resident of Hassan. It is gathered that the accident took place when the tanker was moving towards Birur fr

With the Lok Sabha 2019 elections underway, the Income Tax (IT) department is in the process of seizing large amounts of cash being transported allegedly by political entities. In fact, reports lead us to believe that sleuths seized around Rs 4.5 crore in cash from raids in Karnataka, and Goa on Sat

Bengaluru: Congress MLA for Chamarajpet Zameer Ahmed Khan, on Saturday sparked a massive controversy by making a personal attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by stating “Modi’s wife left him because his face was not right’ Addressing the presspersons here Zameer slammed BJP’s candidate for Hav

Raichur: Former chief minister Siddaramaiah on Friday, April 19 arrived in Raichur to meet the parents of Madhu, an engineering student, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances and expressed his condolence. It is gathered that Siddaramaiah met Nagaraj, the father of the deceased and exp