Bengaluru: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy announced free laptop for all the degree students. All these years only SC/ST students were given a free laptop. Addressing at an event at Maharani's college in Mysuru, CM HDK announced that the government is committed towards ensuring that each and every

Shivamogga: A 20-year-old youth from Bhaise village in Hosanagar taluk attempted suicide, allegedly due to police harassment and recorded it live on Facebook (FB) on Tuesday. Reportedly the Hosanagar police had warned the youth, Mithun Shetty against posting inflammatory messages on social media.

Chikkamagaluru: A 35-year-old man, suspecting his wife's fidelity beheaded her and travelled 20 km on his bike with the severed head to surrender before the police. The accused, Sathish SG runs a mutton stall in the city. Confessing to his crime before the police, Sathish said that he was enra

Bengaluru: Two central teams will visit Karnataka soon to assess the damage caused by rains and floods in seven of its districts in August, even as the state sought immediate release of Rs 2,000 crore for relief work. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured a Karnataka delegation led by C

The District Administration has issued prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC in Udupi city after the Bharat bandh called by the Congress and other parties turned violent as workers of Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) clashed with one another here on Monday. The prohibitory ord

Bengaluru: Pepper spray is one of the biggest weapons recommended for self-protection, however, this has been misused by many. In one such incidents, two bike thieves sprayed pepper spray on Bellanduru police when they tried to detain the duo. According to the police, Manjunatha Patil and Raghave

Bengaluru: Five persons, including a BBA student, who were selling drugs to students and software employees, were recently nabbed by the Koramangala Police. The arrested accused have been identified as Manikanth of Vishakapatnam, S Lakshman alias Arjun of Bellary, Juber Shasha of Annasebdrapalya

Davangere: Nearly 200 persons, including students, took ill after consuming temple prasadam at Bilichodi in Jagaluru taluk in the district on Saturday. Within two hours of consuming the food, served during the Anjaneya Swami temple fair, several of the devotees started complaining of vomiting and

Bengaluru: A man recently committed suicide in front of the office of the Superintendent of the Bengaluru Rural Police here at Cunningham road. The deceased has been identified as Mohammed (30). He was employed at Mahendra Century Club, according to sources. Reportedly, the man hanged himself

Bengaluru: The Defence Ministry on Saturday announced that the next edition of the biennial Aero India air show would be held here from February 20 to 24, 2019. "The government has decided to hold the Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru from February 20 to 24, 2019," said the ministry in a statement fro

Mysuru: A young man was arrested for harassing a minor girl and also severely injuring her in Mysuru. The arrested is Chandan (22), a resident of Udayagiri of Mysuru district. He was constantly harassing a tenth-grade student and was persuading her to get involved in a relationship with him. W

Bengaluru: A mentally retarded person was beaten up by a mob assuming he is a child lifter, in Patalamma layout under the Kadugodi police limits. According to the police, the person, whose identity is yet to be found, is suffering from mental illness. The man was spotted in Patalamma layout on

Seven people were killed in two road accidents in Tumakuru and Bengaluru on Wednesday. One of the accidents, claimed the lives of three MBBS students, all in their 20s, who were killed on the spot when the car they were travelling in collided with a truck laden with iron rods that had been parked

Bangaluru: In a daring move, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has decided that the government schools will now use English as a medium of instruction. A 1000 schools will switch to teaching in the English medium on an experimental basis, Kumaraswamy informed. "When I announced it in the Budget,

Following a steep hike in diesel prices in the last few days, the State government has proposed to hike bus fares of State road transport corporations by 18%. The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and other regional transport corpo

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking a direction to make appointments of judges of all the High Courts and the Supreme Court by issuing a public notification inviting recommendations/ references from Bar Associations, sitting and retired judges, advocates, political pa

Chikkaballapur: In a tragic incident, a student of a government school died after the school compound wall collapsed smothering him to death on Tuesday, September 4. The deceased is Arun, a student of Dinnur Government school of Chikkaballapur district. It is said that Arun was near the compou

Bengaluru: Less than four months after the Assembly election, the Congress on Monday won the most seats in Karnataka's 105 urban local bodies, pushing the BJP to the second spot, and voicing confidence that a Congress-JD(S) combine will sweep the Lok Sabha polls. "The Congress winning 982 of the