Bengaluru: Protests by the BJP and right-wing outfits coupled with the absence of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and his deputy marked the 'Tipu Jayanthi' celebrations in Karnataka Saturday. Tipu Jayanthi is celebrated to observe the birth anniversary of controversial 18th-century ruler of the er

Haveri: 'Nirbhaya', a 32-member team of lady police personnel dressed in civil wear will take to the streets of Haveri district from today to tackle cases of eve-teasing. The team, formed by Haveri district Superintendent of Police (SP) K Parshurama will not only be seen on-duty 24/7 but they wil

Bengaluru: Stepping up his efforts for an anti-BJP front in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, TDP supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Thursday met his Karnataka counterpart H D Kumaraswamy after which he said a grand alliance of various regional parties would be forged soon in whic

Madikeri: The Anti-Tippu Jayanthi Action Committee has called for a voluntary Kodagu bandh on November 10 – the day of the Tipu Jayanthi celebration. The committee would hold a protest today (Thursday) at Somwarpete and Virajpet and submit memorandums to Tahsildars requesting the government to ca

Bengaluru: With the CCB police tightening its noose around mining baron and former minister Janardhan Reddy in connection with a money transaction worth crores of rupees, allegedly linked to a Ponzi scheme, the BJP has sought to clear away from any kind of controversy by maintaining that Reddy is no

Bengaluru: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday, November 6 told that if the BJP party and the saffron outfits were not interested in celebrating Tipu Jayanti then they could stay back at home. Addressing press persons at his home office ‘Krishna’ Kumaraswamy said that he had never opposed Ti

The State government and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Monday told the High Court of Karnataka that they will strictly enforce the law for penalising persons who throw garbage indiscriminately and at prohibited places. The BBMP’s assurance came after the court termed the enforcemen

The Congress-JD(S) coalition on Tuesday posted a resounding victory in Karnataka bypolls by winning two out of three Lok Sabha seats and two assembly constituencies. The BJP managed to retain only Shivamogga Lok Sabha seat. Though, the counting is over in all seats, the election commission is yet to

Bengaluru : Sixteen-year old Samay Godika, a city school student, will receive $400,000 in educational prizes for himself, his teacher and his school, as he emerged winner in the fourth annual "Breakthrough Junior Challenge", a global science video competition. The US-based Breakthrough Prize ann

Bengaluru: An eight-month-old pregnant woman took a noble decision of donating her husband’s organs after he was declared brain dead by the doctors here. Sharath Babu (30) a resident of Yalahanka had sustained severe head injury after his bike collided with a car near BSF camp near Yelahanka on B

Bengaluru: Sandalwood actor Jagadish S Hosamath, along with three others was arrested by the Central Crime Branch police on charges of illegal arms trade. The police also recovered two 7.65mm country-made firearms and 10 rounds of bullets. The other three accused have been identified as Mohammed

Bengaluru: Union minister Ananth Kumar Hegde has written a letter to the chief secretary to state government seeking that his name, be excluded from the Tipu Jayanti programme invitations. Apart from the chief secretary Hegde even wrote a letter to the Belagavi and Uttara Karnataka Deputy Commiss

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