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Twitter users troll Karnataka BJP over stance on Cauvery water release,...
A day ahead of the special joint session of the legislature called to debate on the release of water to Tamil Nadu, Twitter users have been creating memes and trolling the Karnataka BJP and Prime...
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Karnataka to hold special assembly session today, will state defy SC order on...
The one-day special session of the Karnataka legislature is set to happen on Friday in the wake of Supreme Court order on Wednesday to release 6000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily till September 27 to...
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Bengaluru 15-yr-old dies of dengue: BBMP issues notice to Cloud Nine hospital
The BBMP has sent a notice to Cloud Nine Hospital in Jayanagar after a 15-year-old girl student died at Apollo hospital, just hours after being transferred from Cloud Nine.Suraksha P reports for The...
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Karnataka on disobedience mode, legislature passes resolution that no Cauvery...
In a move that could rankle the Supreme Court of India, a special joint session of the Karnataka Legislature unanimously passed a resolution saying that the state could not release water to Tamil Nadu,...
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Siddaramaiah isn't the only one, a look at other Karnataka CMs who have...
The Karnataka legislature on Friday unanimously passed a resolution, stating that water from the Cauvery must only be drawn for drinking water, effectively declining to release water to Tamil Nadu....
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Don't cut down trees to make way for bigger footpaths: Protest against...
Over a year after work began under the ambitious TenderSURE project in Bengaluru, the project continues to draw ire from sections in the city. About 30 activists and residents gathered at the...
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Protesters in Mandya vent ire at Mysuru-Kodagu BJP MP Pratap Simha
BJP MP Pratap Simha was in for a nasty surprise when he attempted to join protesters in Mandya city even as the joint legislature session was underway in the state capital.Protests continued in Mandya,...
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Mangaluru student sends false WhatsApp text stating a lecturer is dead,...
The Puttur police arrested a student from Mangaluru for allegedly sending false WhatsApp messages about a lecturer’s death.Vinuth N, a second year B.Com student at St Aloysius college was arrested a...
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Karnataka to crack down on whiteners, nail polish removers as children abuse...
The Karnataka state Food Commissionerate on Thursday issued an order partially banning the production and sale of nail polish removers and whiteners in bottled form.Stating that children, especially...
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With clean chit and Cauvery crisis over, KJ George to be reinstated, sworn in...
With the Cauvery crisis having blown over at present, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has reinstated KJ George as minister in the Karnataka Cabinet.Kannada news channels have been reporting that George...
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MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar submits resolution to declare Pakistan a terrorist...
Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday submitted a private member’s bill that seek to declare Pakistan a terror nation.The MP, an independent member of the upper house, submitted the...
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When in drought, Karnataka and TN will have to scale down water demand:...
In a year of drought, both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, embroiled in dispute over sharing of Cauvery water, will have to agree to scale down each other's quantum of water requirement, Congress General...
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As Manjamma gets state award, she wishes govt would do more for transgender...
“I have gained more respect as an artist than as a transgender woman. But I hope there is a day when transgender people are given the same respect that the other two genders get,” says Rajyotsava...
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Private school van catches fire in Bengaluru after fuel leak, 8 children...
Eight school children had a narrow escape after their private school van caught fire near Puttenahalli metro station in Bengaluru on Saturday. They were saved by a 38-year-old man, who broke open the...
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Mysuru first major Indian city to be declared open defecation free
After winning the cleanest city tag for two years in a row, Mysuru has notched up another honour for itself. It has now been declared the first city with a population of more than one million to be...
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What is gestational diabetes and why is it so prevalent in urban Karnataka?
According to recent studies, urban Karnataka is seeing a significant number of cases of gestational diabetes, standing higher than the national average of 15% of cases.While a recent study by the...
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Six lives and property worth crores lost in Bidar and Kalaburgi due to heavy...
With infrastructural losses worth crores, districts around the Krishna basin have been badly hit by incessant rains in the last three days.Six deaths – two from Kalaburgi district and four from Bidar...
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DSP Ganapathy death: Clean chit to KJ George, to rejoin ministry
K.J. George will rejoin the Siddaramaiah ministry in Karnataka on Monday, over two months after he resigned as Bengaluru Development Minister on July 18 following an FIR against him in the suicide case...
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Cauvery dispute: Karnataka to file plea in SC on Monday to modify order
Two days after a special legislature session passed a resolution stating that Karnataka could not release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka is set to file a plea in the Supreme Court on Monday.The...
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Five transgender persons booked for allegedly forcibly mutilating teenager’s...
Bengaluru police on Sunday arrested a priest named Tulasi Appan, following a complaint from the parents of a teenage boy that he was forced to undergo genital mutilation.The police had booked a case...
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