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

Belagavi: Expressing concern that Karnataka has become drought prone for successive years, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday, December 19 said that an expert committee would be set up to study about it and find ways to mitigate the situation. Intervening during the reply to a discussion

Belagavi: Aimed at addressing the regional imbalance, the Karnataka cabinet on Wednesday, December 19 decided to shift some government departments, boards and commissions to the North Karnataka region. In principle, approval had been given for shifting of some offices to north Karnataka, but loca

Bengaluru: A BBMP corporator’s son was arrested in connection to with the murder of a notorious rowdy sheeter on Monday Dec 17th. The arrested youth is identified as Sooraj (26), son of Hombegowda Nagar Corporator Chandrappa D and was produced before the Court in connection for his alleged involveme

Bengaluru: A 28-year-old software engineer, who had gone to bid his home-bound parents goodbye, was killed after he fell off the moving train and came under it at Carmelaram railway station, East Bengaluru on Monday night, Dec 17th. The deceased youth’s father also sustained grievous injuries after

Bengaluru: The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Light Utility Helicopter project has notched another milestone as the third prototype (PT3) made its maiden flight on December 14. The helicopter was flown by test pilots, Wg Cdr (Retd) Anil Bhambhani and Gp Capt (Retd) M R Anand VM, the Hindustan Ae

Belagavi: Though the use of mobile phones inside the Legislative Assembly is banned former primary-secondary education minister and lone BSP MLA N Mahesh was caught on camera while using his mobile phone in the Assembly on Monday, December 17. Mahesh was busy viewing the photograph of a woman on

Bengaluru: Love is an intoxication that drives the partners to do crazy things to any extent to just to make their partner happy. On similar lines, a lady went a step further and committed robbery at her own home, just to meet the desire of her lover. The lady robbed her parental home and made off w