Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 1: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner Manjunath Prasad has written to the Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development department asking to cancel the order of naming streets in Ward 135 of Padarayanapura in the city, after Muslim leaders.

Bengaluru, Jan 1: The second runway of Kempegowda International Airport here has been upgraded to facilitate smooth operation of flights, even during low visibility.

Bengaluru, Jan 1: In a fallout to the bureaucratic squabble over the Rs 619- crore Bengaluru Safe City Project, the state government on Thursday transferred Home Secretary Roopa D as the managing director, Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd while another IPS officer involved in the controversy, Hemant Nimbalkar, was transferred as IGP, Internal Security Division.

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C N Ashwath Narayan on Thursday released the 18th annual special edition of Vartha Bharati Kannada Daily at his residence at Race Course Road here in Bengaluru.

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar on Thursday claimed that candidates backed by them were winning in the recent elections to over 5,700 village panchayats, saying he is 'ready to show' the detailed list of candidates emerged victorious defeating BJP.

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Authorities have gone back to putting up notices outside the homes of UK returnees who tested positive for the new strain of SARS-CoV-2, in an apparent violation of a Supreme Court directive.

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Karnataka Rural Development and Panchyat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa on Thursday said the newly elected Gram Panchyat members will be given training between January 19 and 20.

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday thanked people in rural areas for their overwhelming support to the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Panchayat elections, in which the party workers scored a resounding victory.

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Ruling out leadership change, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday asserted he will remain in the post for the remaining over two year period and complete the term, and there was no confusion regarding this within the ruling BJP.

Bengaluru, Dec 31 (UNI) Majority of returnees from United Kingdom who arrived in Karnataka after the new strain of Covid-19 was detected in Britain, are still at large without bothering for the State government's warning about consequences they may have to face. The number of international passengers who could not be contacted in the state increased to about 300, but police and health officials