Bengaluru: The Karnataka government said people would be allowed to burst firecrackers for a two-hour period i.e between 8 pm to 10 pm during Deepavali, in line with the Supreme Court directive. A notification released in this regard urged the people to use low decibel crackers and make sure that

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government said people would be allowed to burst firecrackers for a two-hour period i.e between 8 pm to 10 pm during Deepavali, in line with the Supreme Court directive. A notification released in this regard urged the people to use low decibel crackers and make sure that

Bengaluru: Sudhir Kumar Sharma, one of the men falsely accused in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) 'spy' case of 1994, has died early on Thursday. SK Sharma was in palliative care being treated for stage-4 oesophagus cancer. Sharma was 62-year-old. He is survived by wife and three

Bengaluru: The President of India on Thursday appointed five new judges to the Karnataka High Court. A notification in this regards was issued by Rajinder Kashyap, Joint Secretary to the Government of India. Of the new appointees, Ashok G. Nijagannanavar, Hettur Puttaswamy Gowda Sandesh, Krishnan

Bengaluru: Just two days prior to the by-polls Ramanagara's BJP candidate L Chandrashekar withdrew his nominations on Thursday and decided to support JDS-Congress collision party candidate Anita Kumaraswamy. Chandrashekar, son of Congress MLC CM Lingappa had recently left Congress and joined BJP. He

BENGALURU: Bengaluru's civic authority, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has decided to hand over the investigation of the garbage-disposal scam to Karnataka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Under the scam, the BBMP was ending up paying for garbage disposal vehicles that didn

Bengaluru: After opposing Tipu Jayanthi, the BJP now wants to rename the Tipu Express with any name of the Maharaja of Mysuru. Sudhanshu Trivedi, spokesperson of the BJP was here on Tuesday to participate in an interactive event organised at Mythic Society. While interacting with the people he sa

Bellary: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday, expressed that he will render full support to Rahul Gandhi for the PM post after the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Addressing a campaign rally in Ballary to support Congress candidate V S Ugrappa, Deve Gowda said that he and his party will comp

Bengaluru: The state government has sought drought relief aid of Rs 2,434-crore from the National Disaster Response Fund of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to compensate for the crop losses in drought-hit districts on Monday. In a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the state's Revenu

Bengaluru: A non-bailable warrant has been filed against senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa for his repeated absence in the hearing of a criminal case. In 2011 when B.S.Yeddyurappa had lost his power Ishwarappa had called for a bundh, questioning this High Court lawy

Bengaluru: A baby was burnt alive while another is battling for his life after being set ablaze by none other than their father at Anjanapura under the Thalagattapura police limits on Sunday night. Sayi Charan,1, succumbed to the burn injuries while his sibling Sayi Chetan,4, is battling for life

Mysuru: The villagers of Agasanahundi, falling under Nagarahole National Park heaved a huge sigh of relief after a tiger which had killed their cattle was, on Monday, finally trapped in a cage placed by the forest department. The villagers had been gripped with a sense of fear as the tiger had be

Bengaluru: Smuggled gold weighing 9.2 kg and valued at Rs three crore was recovered from an unclaimed baggage at the international airport here, Customs sources said Sunday. The yellow metal was found concealed in a speaker inside the baggage during scanning on Saturday night and no passenger cam

Bengaluru: Nearly eight years after a woman advocate was murdered in broad daylight in the corridors of the Karnataka High Court, the accused, a lawyer himself, was awarded life imprisonment by the city civil and sessions court on Saturday. The convicted SL Rajappa, a Kolar native was said to be

UDUPI: A man who participated in the protest in front of the DC’s office died on Thursday evening. It is said that the health of Mohammed Haneef (42) deteriorated after participating in the protest that was held to press the demand for allowing sand removal activities in both CRZ and non-CRZ area.

BENGALURU: While as the cybercrime department has been spreading awareness about fake employment offers on online portals, a firm in Koramangala has been accused of defrauding people by promising them lucrative jobs. Debashis Roy, the owner of an IT company called Merger Technology, was caught by

Bengaluru: Congress workers Friday staged a protest in front of the CBI office here following the party's call for a nationwide agitation against the Centre's action to divest CBI Director Alok Verma of his powers and send him on leave. However, MLAs and corporators did not take part in the prote

Shivamogga: "Let's see if there are blessings of the people in the next elections," was senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah's refrain on Friday when asked if he wants to become Karnataka chief minister again even though he asserted he has no such "greed". The head of the Congress-JD(S) coalition