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

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