Tag: Karnataka

New Delhi: The withdrawal of southwest monsoon has begun, 12 days after its normal date, the country’s top weatherman said today. The southwest monsoon, however, still remains active over Telangana, Rayalaseema, Coastal Karnataka, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. “The withdrawal of monsoon began on September 27,” IMD Director General […]

New Delhi/Washington: Indian-American Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, appointed by the previous Obama regime, has been asked to step down by the Trump administration to put its own leadership in place. “Today, Murthy, the leader of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, was asked to resign from his duties as Surgeon General after assisting in […]

Barely a month after Justice Shivaraj V Patil resigned as Lokayukta, Justice R Gururajan, one of his two deputies, followed suit on Wednesday citing health. On June 27, Gururajan, a retired high court judge, had taken charge as the second Upa Lokayukta to assist Patil.

NHRC asks report from Karnataka and Odisha govts on child labourer torture incident

Cuttack: A team of seven doctors here is battling to save the highly-infectious broken arm of a 12-year-old boy, who was allegedly beaten by the owner of brick kiln in Gulbarga district of Karnataka where he worked along with his parents. The doctors in the team have been drawn from the orthopaedic and plastic surgery […]

Bengaluru: Describing the Congress government in Karnataka as non-performing, corrupt and defunct, BJP president Amit Shah Saturday called upon the people to free the state from the ruling party.

Karnataka police said they have busted a Rs 290 crore plus scam that involved duping people through a mobile app after promising attractive interest on investment and two Chinese nationals were among the nine arrested.

The findings are startling. A study undertaken by the Karnataka forest department has found that large scale plantation of eucalyptus and acacia has played havoc with ground water level in three districts of the state – Bengaluru Rural, Kolar and Chikkaballapur – and converted them into barren lands.  Based on the findings, the Karnataka government […]

A total of 516 people have been evacuated so far, as per the situation report, and 253 people are currently taking shelter in the 10 relief camps that have been opened.

In a unique effort to create awareness on the severity of the pandemic, the Karnataka Police came up with a unique idea to embarrass those found violating the Covid norms and moving around in the streets. The violators were garlanded and urged to stay indoors in order to contain the spread of the virus.

Bengaluru: The last rites of a CRPF trooper from Karnataka, killed in the Pulwama attack, were held on Saturday at his native village in Mandya district with full honours as thousands bid tearful adieu. H. Guru’s body, brought in an Indian Air Force AN-32 transport aircraft from Delhi, landed at the HAL airport and was […]

Bengaluru: With the death of one more person in a building collapse in Karnataka’s Dharwad, the toll has touched three, police said on Wednesday. About 10 others were still suspected to be trapped under tonnes of cement and mortar. The multi-storey commercial under-construction building collapsed on Tuesday injuring at least 46 others. State unit Congress […]

Bengaluru: The death toll in the building collapse in Karnataka’s Dharwad on Tuesday rose to 10 with five more bodies retrieved from the debris on Thursday, the third day of search and rescue operations, according to the police. Rescuers were still searching for people in the debris. Many people were feared trapped after an under-construction […]

Bengaluru: Congress leader in the outgoing Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and former Union Ministers M. Veerappa Moily and K. H. Muniyappa are among candidates the party high command cleared to contest from 18 parliamentary seats in Karnataka on late Saturday. “The party’s central election committee selected 18 candidates in New Delhi to contest from Karnataka […]

Bengaluru: Electorate in Karnataka will not be allowed to carry smart-phones or mobile phones inside the polling booth while going to vote to prevent them from taking selfies or recording videos, an official said on Sunday. “The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) prevents voters from carrying mobile phones or smart-phones and cameras inside the polling […]