Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 15: Dubbing the Muslim girls that are fighting for their right to wear hijab as “misguided”, the Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh on Tuesday said we will try to win the hearts of those girls and 'bring them in the mainstream of education'.

Bengaluru, Mar 15: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that everyone should follow High Court order that that upholds uniforms inside classrooms.

Bengaluru, Mar 15: In a major blow to Muslims in Karnataka, the High Court has upheld the ban on hijab imposed by the BJP government in educational institutions.

Deputy Congress leader UT Khader’s suggestion that the government should organise harmony meetings in every district as a precursor to the Invest Karnataka summit led to some pandemonium in the Assembly on Monday.

The police have tightened security measures across Karnataka over the hijab judgement. The High Court of Karnataka is going to pronounce the judgement over the controversy on March 15. The pronouncement will commence at 10.30 am.

Bengaluru, Mar 14: A pothole in Bengaluru claimed one more life on Monday, March 14 as a 27-year-old engineer, rode into it and received fatal injuries later succumbing to it in a hospital.

Bengaluru, Mar 13: In a controversial statement, Bengaluru South BJP MP Tejasvi Surya has said more Indian students would have died if it was not for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to bring them back safely from Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that Russia might use chemical weapons following its invasion of Ukraine and that such a move would be a war crime, according to an interview in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

Senior Karnataka Congress leader and Member of Legislative Council (MLC) CM Ibrahim tendered his resignation from the Congress party and from his position as Legislative Council Member on Saturday, March 12.

Dharward, Mar 12: A leader of Mahila Morcha, the women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has murdered her husband in Karnataka’s Dharwad district last night.