Karnataka

Bengaluru, Dec 18: In a wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Karnataka government on Friday issued guidelines for Christmas and New Year celebration in the state.

Bengaluru, Dec 17: Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar on Thursday directed the Commissioner for Public Instruction (CPI) to take steps to drop relevant paras from the Class VI Social Science text book which are deemed to be insinuating remarks against the “Brahmin” community.

Bengaluru, Dec 18: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "worried" over the violence at the Wistron iPhone plant and informed that the state government has taken necessary action in the matter.

Bengaluru, Dec 17: CT Ravi, the national general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party and former Karnataka cabinet minister, slammed opponents of the farm laws on Twitter on Thursday, saying that only a small percentage of people were opposing the legislation.

Bengaluru, Dec 17: Sharath Bachegowda, the independent MLA from Hoskote has decided to join the Congress, a move he hopes will propel his burgeoning political career.

Bengaluru, Dec 17: Government of Karnataka and the British Council have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further bilateral cooperation in higher education in the presence of Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa here on Thursday.

Bengaluru, Dec 16: With 1,403 persons getting discharged in a day, recoveries again outnumbered new Covid cases in Karnataka, which reported 1,240 new cases, taking its tally to 9,04,665 till date, including 15,476 active cases.

Bengaluru, Dec 17: A 33-year-old Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) posted at Criminal Investigation Department (CID) reportedly killed herself at a friend's house in Annapoorneshwari Nagar police station limits in West Bengaluru, on Wednesday night.

Kolar, Dec 17: The Karnataka Police on Thursday detained Srikanth, taluk president of Students' Federation of India (SFI), in connection with the violence that erupted at Wistron Private Limited, in Kolar.

Yadgiri, Dec 17: Karnataka's Minister of Animal Husbandry Prabhu Chauhan on Wednesday alleged that whoever was protesting at the border of the national capital were not farmers but Congress workers.