Bengaluru: Karnataka Home Minister M B Patil Wednesday said the state police have worked efficiently in the murder cases of noted rationalist M MKalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh and would take both cases to their logical end. Patil, who took over as home minister after the recent ministry re

Bengaluru/Mangaluru: The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation on Thursday suspended its bus services to Kerala in view of the bandh being observed in the neighbouring state over the entry of women devotees in Sabarimala temple The services have been suspended as a precautionary measure and

Mandya: A class four student who happily went to school on Tuesday, January 1 to celebrate the New Year is now being treated in the hospital for severe burn injuries after a pressure cooker exploded in the kitchen of a Sangapura government school in Sangapura village of Pandavapura taluk. The inj

Bengaluru: Academician and author K S Bhagawan has been booked for allegedly insulting Lord Ram and Mahatma Gandhi in his book, police said Tuesday. The case was filed under IPC Section 295A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its relig

Bengaluru: As many as 103 inmates of boys remand home here took ill on Monday in a suspected case of food poisoning, informed an official. They were taken to the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health and are now out of danger, the official said quoting doctors. The health officer of Bengalur

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Monday ordered a quality audit check on the first phase of the Bengaluru Metro Rail, days after a rail beam at the Trinity station developed a crack. "We have decided to carry out the quality audit check of the entire Metro Rail Phase-1, which may require th

Bengaluru: More than 300 exhibitors, including top global and domestic players from the defence industry, have confirmed their participation in Aero India 2019, a defence official said on Sunday, December 30. Aero India 2019 will be held in Bengaluru from February 20 to 24 and the defence exhibit

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for terming the state government's loan waiver scheme for farmers "one of the most cruel jokes", accusing him of misleading the country for "political gains". Reaffirming the JD(S)-Congress coalition g

Bengaluru: Days after being accused of theft by her employer a 48-year-old domestic help ended her life by setting herself ablaze at her residence in Viveknagar police station limits on Friday night. The deceased identified as G. Tangamani, a mother of three worked as a maid at the residence of S

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