The Congress Party has relaunched the ‘controversial’ National Herald newspaper on Monday at Ambedkar Bhavan, Millers Road, Bengaluru. To mark the 70th year of independence, the newspaper, founded by Jawaharlal Nehru, has been relaunched by Vice President Hamid Ansari in the presence of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. Apart from the Nation[Read More…]
Demanding waiving off farmer loans and expressing concerns over issues like water scarcity and sharing of water from Mahadayi river in Goa, two different groups have called for a statewide bandh in Karnataka on Monday. Kannada Okkoota and the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce are holding the bandh with a[Read More…]
In a recent incident in Bengaluru, a 44-year-old man has been arrested for sexually assaulting his 14-year-old daughter over a year. Rajagopalnagar police arrested the man on Wednesday, who has been identified as Ramesh. According to police, the accused used to sexually assault his daughter under the influence of alcohol[Read More…]
Over the years, the number of rape cases and women molestation has been vehemently increasing. The subjugation of women has become a daily trend for today’s world. Recently in Karnataka, a woman was allegedly used a sex slave for three years by a gang of men and was later left[Read More…]
A BJP member was allegedly murdered by unidentified assailants in Bengaluru on Thursday morning. The incident happened in Anekal, Bengaluru and the deceased leader has been identified as Harish. He was a BJP block SC/ST cell vice-president. He was attacked by assailants while riding a bike, who attacked him with deadly[Read More…]
In a blow to the VIP culture, an ambulance of Hosmat hospital, which was carrying an emergency patient, was given precedence over Chief Minister of Karnataka convoy. The ambulance was allowed to overtake CM of Karnataka convoy with their concurrence. “BTP (Bangalore Traffic police) stood by my instructions to prioritise[Read More…]
On Wednesday, a city civil court awarded a 7 day anticipatory bail to former Karnataka CM and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) lawmaker H.D. Kumaraswamy. He is allegedly involved in a mining scam in which a serving IAS officer was arrested on Monday. Kumaraswamy, who was the JD-S Chief Minister in 2006-07,[Read More…]
Union Minister Ananth Kumar and Karnataka Bhartiya Jantha Party (BJP) chief BS Yeddyurappa were on Saturday directed by an additional chief metropolitan magistrate court to appear before the cyber crime cell in seven days and give voice samples. This is in connection with a case where the Cyber Crime police are probing[Read More…]
Karnataka Federation of Petroleum Traders has decided to shut all 3,000 filling stations in the state on all Sundays starting from May 14. The petrol bunks will remain open for the customers for only 12 hours from May 15, 2017. The move came after the federation decided to back protest initiated[Read More…]
Bengaluru City Police is not leaving any stone unturned in entertaining its netizens on Twitter while educating them about traffic rules. After giving a Harry Potter reference last month, the team hit the right chord with a Game of Thrones based meme this time. The recent tweet shows Jon Snow[Read More…]
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed an immediate and complete closure of all industries around Bengaluru’s Bellandur Lake where a mound of garbage was set on fire in February 2017. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also banned dumping of any kind of municipal solid waste[Read More…]
Women empowerment is a need for a healthy society. In view of this, the government of Karnataka has taken effective measures to develop a healthy ecosystem dedicated to advance women entrepreneurship. By sustaining this culture, the women entrepreneurs in Karnataka have received an ideal platform which now invites global investments[Read More…]
Ex-Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna will be joining the Bharatiya Janta Party on Wednesday. The sweeping victories combined with the association of eminent leader, BJP’s popularity seems to be escalating every second. The 84-year-old was scheduled to join the BJP on March 15 which had to be postponed due to a death in[Read More…]
The movie tickets cannot be priced above Rs 200 each in multiplexes across the state as per the Karnataka Budget presented by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday. The Karnataka Budget for 2017-18 has proposed numerous measures that will bring a smile to alcohol and cinema lovers. The value-added tax (VAT)[Read More…]
Srinivas Prasad, a BJP leader known as Kithaganahalli Vasu was hacked to death on Tuesday morning by unidentified assailants in Bengaluru rural district. The 45-year-old was a member of Bommasandra Municipal council. The incident took place after Srinivas Prasad received a call around 5 am in the morning. He left[Read More…]
Two people have been arrested concerning the blackening of the face of a controversial writer, Yogesh Master, at a function held in Davangere on Monday. Shivaprakash and Chetan were detained by Davangere police. The detained were reportedly belonging to the right wing Hindu Jagaran Vedike. The event took place when[Read More…]
Former Congress leader S M Krishna will join the BJP on March 15, said Karnataka BJP President B S Yeddyurappa on Monday. “Krishna will join BJP fold on March 15 in New Delhi,” said Yeddyurappa to reporters following a rally in the run up to the Nanjangud and Gundlupet bypolls.[Read More…]
A North-Eastern tenant was allegedly assaulted and forced to lick shoes by his landlord in Bengaluru. Higio Guntey, a fourth-semester student in the Christ University in Bengaluru, was allegedly abused by his landlord on Monday evening and was later beaten up for using extra water. Guntey alleged that the house[Read More…]
A lecturer at the Bengaluru St Joseph’s Autonomous College was terminated from service on Thursday, allegedly due to his sexual orientation. Ashley Tellis, Associate Professor with the college’s Department of English, told The Hindu that he was asked to leave a lecture midway and was called to the principal’s chamber.[Read More…]
Recently, inhabitants in the southeast part of Bangalore saw huge plumes of smoke coming from the middle of Bellandur Lake, largest lake in the city. The incident left people in shock as the lake had caught fire. The fire burned for almost 12 hours with leaving behind a sinister black[Read More…]
Karnataka jail department officials have denied reports on Wednesday that AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala has been enjoying special facilities in Parappana Agrahara prison in Bengaluru and is likely to be shifted to a jail in Tamil Nadu. In response to a set of queries raised by advocate M[Read More…]