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A noted tiger conservationist and his friend were assaulted in Karnataka on Monday. DV Girish and his friend were attacked in Chikmagalur district when they were travelling through a reserve forest in the evening.

VK Sasikala, expelled AIADMK leader and a close aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been released after spending four years in a Bengaluru jail in a corruption case. She will, however, remain in a hospital in the city as she is being treated for Covid. She will also continue to get protection from Karnataka Police as long a...

Kannada actress Sanjjanaa Galrani has been arrested after the Bengaluru Police widened its probe into the illegal drug market and its alleged links with the Kannada film industry. The actor was questioned today before she was taken into custody, officials said. He arrest comes days after the arrest of another Kannada actress, Ragini Dwivedi, on dru...

Karnataka has issued a fresh set of guidelines and quarantine rules for people travelling to the state from other states and from outside the country. The state government has also revised the coronavirus testing protocols after the last update on May 20.

A mysterious "boom" heard in large parts of Bengaluru this afternoon that left residents of the city and social media users puzzled later turned out to be the sonic boom of a test aircraft.

An MLA from the ruling BJP in Karnataka, who has made controversial statements in the past, has welcomed his government's decision to scrap a wedding scheme for poor women from minority communities, saying "those who want the scheme can go to Pakistan".

The Karnataka government held an emergency meeting today, a day after a young software engineer who works in Bengaluru was tested positive for coronavirus in Hyderabad. The man is among the two new cases of the deadly virus that has infected more than 88,000 people across the globe and killed over 3,000. All those who came in contact with the techi...

Underworld gangster Ravi Pujari, who used to operate in Mumbai in the 1990s, was brought back to India late last night after he was arrested and extradited from the west African country of Senegal. He was flown to Bengaluru by a team of officials, including senior IPS officers from Karnataka.

Days after the violence in Karnataka's Mangaluru during protests over the new citizenship law that left two people dead, police in the coastal city have released a series of videos and photos of what it claims are from the clashes. The videos show protesters bringing stones in an auto-trolley, throwing stones and trying to destroy the CCTV cameras.

The internet shutdown amid increasing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA has been widened to several other towns in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, after three persons died and many were injured as protests swept at least 10 states on Thursday. The snapping of the internet has led to a communication clampdown in many cities includin...

The personal assistant of former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara has allegedly committed suicide in Bengaluru. The aide was not among those who were searched by Income Tax officials as they conducted huge raids at multiple places linked to the senior Congress leader on Thursday and Friday, sources in the tax department said.

Officials of the CBI are searching the home of former Bengaluru police commissioner Alok Kumar in the city in connection with the alleged phone-tapping of politicians and bureaucrats during the term of the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka.

Accidents happen not because of bad roads but because the roads are in a good condition, one of the three Deputy Chief Ministers of Karnataka said, in a bizarre explanation on his government's decision to reduce the steep fines for traffic offenders that was introduced by the centre under an amended law.

Karnataka Congress's chief troubleshooter DK Shivakumar, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi on Friday for being questioned in connection with a money-laundering case. The former minister faces arrest after his request for protection from arrest was rejected by the Karnataka High Court on Thursday.

HD Kumaraswamy, former Karnataka Chief Minister, said he is "thinking of going away from politics", a little over a week after his coalition government in the state crumbled. The 14-month-old Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government headed by Mr Kumaraswamy collapsed last month after losing the trust vote in the assembly, in a climax to t...

A noted tiger conservationist and his friend were assaulted in Karnataka on Monday. DV Girish and his friend were attacked in Chikmagalur district when they were travelling through a reserve forest in the evening.

VK Sasikala, expelled AIADMK leader and a close aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been released after spending four years in a Bengaluru jail in a corruption case. She will, however, remain in a hospital in the city as she is being treated for Covid. She will also continue to get protection from Karnataka Police as long a...

Kannada actress Sanjjanaa Galrani has been arrested after the Bengaluru Police widened its probe into the illegal drug market and its alleged links with the Kannada film industry. The actor was questioned today before she was taken into custody, officials said. He arrest comes days after the arrest of another Kannada actress, Ragini Dwivedi, on dru...

Karnataka has issued a fresh set of guidelines and quarantine rules for people travelling to the state from other states and from outside the country. The state government has also revised the coronavirus testing protocols after the last update on May 20.

A mysterious "boom" heard in large parts of Bengaluru this afternoon that left residents of the city and social media users puzzled later turned out to be the sonic boom of a test aircraft.

An MLA from the ruling BJP in Karnataka, who has made controversial statements in the past, has welcomed his government's decision to scrap a wedding scheme for poor women from minority communities, saying "those who want the scheme can go to Pakistan".

The Karnataka government held an emergency meeting today, a day after a young software engineer who works in Bengaluru was tested positive for coronavirus in Hyderabad. The man is among the two new cases of the deadly virus that has infected more than 88,000 people across the globe and killed over 3,000. All those who came in contact with the techi...

Underworld gangster Ravi Pujari, who used to operate in Mumbai in the 1990s, was brought back to India late last night after he was arrested and extradited from the west African country of Senegal. He was flown to Bengaluru by a team of officials, including senior IPS officers from Karnataka.

Days after the violence in Karnataka's Mangaluru during protests over the new citizenship law that left two people dead, police in the coastal city have released a series of videos and photos of what it claims are from the clashes. The videos show protesters bringing stones in an auto-trolley, throwing stones and trying to destroy the CCTV cameras.

The internet shutdown amid increasing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA has been widened to several other towns in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, after three persons died and many were injured as protests swept at least 10 states on Thursday. The snapping of the internet has led to a communication clampdown in many cities includin...

The personal assistant of former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara has allegedly committed suicide in Bengaluru. The aide was not among those who were searched by Income Tax officials as they conducted huge raids at multiple places linked to the senior Congress leader on Thursday and Friday, sources in the tax department said.

Officials of the CBI are searching the home of former Bengaluru police commissioner Alok Kumar in the city in connection with the alleged phone-tapping of politicians and bureaucrats during the term of the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka.

Accidents happen not because of bad roads but because the roads are in a good condition, one of the three Deputy Chief Ministers of Karnataka said, in a bizarre explanation on his government's decision to reduce the steep fines for traffic offenders that was introduced by the centre under an amended law.

Karnataka Congress's chief troubleshooter DK Shivakumar, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi on Friday for being questioned in connection with a money-laundering case. The former minister faces arrest after his request for protection from arrest was rejected by the Karnataka High Court on Thursday.

HD Kumaraswamy, former Karnataka Chief Minister, said he is "thinking of going away from politics", a little over a week after his coalition government in the state crumbled. The 14-month-old Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government headed by Mr Kumaraswamy collapsed last month after losing the trust vote in the assembly, in a climax to t...