Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Tuesday organised the "Plog Run"— Replicating the Scandinavian trend where the joggers pick up garbage as they run. People from all age group participated in the event in 50 locations across the city and collected about 33.4 tonnes of plast

As many as 700 Public Works Department (PWD) officials, from engineers to first division assistants have been transferred in a overnight decision. This decision has been taken despite regulations against the transfer of officials in the middle of a financial year. This ill advised and sudden move

Madikeri: A local BJP leader was shot dead by a gram panchayat member at Maragodu village in the taluk on Monday, October 1. Maragodu BJP local committee secretary Kanadka Thilak Raj, 40, is the deceased. The accused has been identified as Mundodi Nanda Nanaiah. Reportedly, Thilak Raj and Nand

Bengaluru: "Rafale for India will not be ready by February. We expect Dassault to fly some other Rafale at the Aero India show in Bengaluru on February 20-24, 2019," said Deputy Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal R.K. Singh Bhadauria at a press conference in Bengaluru. The 12th edition of the 5-day b

Hubbali: "Special Investigation Team (SIT) has done a commendable job in the investigation of the murder case of journalist Gauri Lankesh. The inquiry is in its final stage," said DCM Dr G Parameshwar, speaking to media on Sunday, September 30th. He said that the team of SIT officials has cracked

Bengaluru: A Bengaluru-based financial company has shut down its office after allegedly amassing crores of rupees from the city's Muslim community by luring them to invest in their firm while claiming that the investments would be under Islamic and halal principles. An estimated 8,000-10,000 peop

Bengaluru: Central Crime Branch (CCB) police on Saturday night, September 29, raided four dance bars across the city and registered cases against them. All the four raids were under the Ashoknagar and Indiranagar police station limits. According to police, these raids were carried out after recei

In another instance of the Congress and JD(S) coming together to keep the BJP out in Karnataka, Congress corporator Gangambike Mallikarjun got elected as the 52nd Mayor of Bengaluru city on Friday. In a repeat of the 2017 elections, BJP staged a walkout ahead of the voice vote.  JD(S)’s Ramila Umash

KOLAR: Police personnel at Srinivasapura police station were  going about their day when a man calmly entered the station with a backpack on Thursday. When police asked him what his problem was, he kept quiet and opened his bag. To the horror of the policemen, the bag had a severed head of a woma

BENGALURU: Most of the state run universities and higher education Institutions in Karnataka are not supporting observing ‘Surgical Strike Day’ on Saturday, the second anniversary of the strike by Indian commandos on bases of terror outfits in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, as suggested by the Union gov

In order to prevent children and school students getting easy access to tobacco, the Karnataka government is mulling a new special license, which will regulate the sale of cigarette and other forms of tobacco among shop owners. This special license will be issued to shops by respective urban local b

BENGALURU: Private telecom service provider Airtel has chalked out plans to strengthen its presence in Karnataka. As part of plans to widen its network, the company said it will invest Rs1000 crore this year. It will add more than 13,000 new mobile sites along with 4,500 km of optic fibre across the

Bengaluru: The Bellandur lake started frothing again since Tuesday morning. City has been receiving heavy rains since a few days which led to the frothing of the lake. The froth flew up 10 ft into the roads. “The BDA had made slopes, gates and installed more than 20 sprinklers to control the f

Bengaluru: With the idea of filling the government exchequer, which is hit by the farm loan waiver scheme, the state government decided to issue permissions to 1,000 new liquor shops across the state. These new liquor shops will come up according to the population density. According to a circular

Bengaluru: Centre asked state govternments to include honey in their ongoing mid-day meals acros. However the Department of Primary and Secondary Education will seek suggestions from the Department of Health and Family Welfare on implementing this at all schools run by the Karnataka government.

Bengaluru: The division bench which was hearing a public interest litigation by senior citizens questioned the governments move of using the temple funds collected by the Muzrai into relief work of flood affected areas. The court questioned as on what basis on which 81 temples across the state we

Bengaluru: Free Wifi scheme to be launched in Bengaluru city in the next few days, said DCM Dr. G Parameshwar. Speaking at an event he stated that after Delhi, Bengaluru will be the second city to offer free WiFi service to the residents. "Our idea is to take technology to the doorsteps of the pe

Raichur: In a rather unfortunate incident, a wife, who was travelling in an ambulance with the dead body of her husband, died after the ambulance met with an accident at Santekeluru at Maski taluk here. The deceased couple is Gangappa and Sridevi from Raichur. While Gangappa died in Bengaluru, Sr