Karnataka

A major fire broke out at Bapuji Nagar near New Guddadahalli off Mysore Road in Bengaluru on Tuesday morning.

Bengaluru, Nov 10: A whopping 44.5% of Karnataka’s population was infected with Covid-19 by the end of August, said a team of Indian and American researchers who completed a randomised Covid-19 testing study.

Tumakuru, Nov 10: In yet another blow to Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party has managed to register victory in bypoll to the Sira assembly segment in Tumakuru district.

Bengaluru, Nov 10: The department of higher education has formulated SOPs (standardized operating procedure) as per the UGC guidelines, in view of the opening of degree, engineering, and diploma colleges in the state from November 17.

Bengaluru, Nov 10: Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar on Monday demanded the state government withdraw the hike in electricity tariffs.

Dharwad, Nov 9: Former Karnataka Minister Vinay Kulkarni, who was arrested on charges of murder of Gram Panchayat member Yogesh Gouda, was remanded to 14-day judicial custody on Monday.

Bengaluru, Nov 9: The CCB Police, investigating the drug menace in the state involving several actors, on Monday arrested three drug peddlers, including Darshan Kumar, son of former Karnataka Minister Rudrappa Lamani.

Mysuru, Nov 9: A young couple drowned as the coracle in which they were sitting, capsized, during a pre-wedding photo shoot, in River Cauvery, at Mudukuthore, Mysuru district, on Monday.

Davanagere, Nov 9: A prominent local leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka’s Davanagere has been arrested by police after an audio clip in which he reportedly asked a man to rape a girl to recover his loan went viral on social media.

Bengaluru, Nov 9: After hiking power tariff recently, the Karnataka government is in the process of hiking water charges thus imposing additional burden on the people who are already suffering following increasing prices of essential commodities due to Covid-19 pandemic, AICC Spokesperson in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala said on Monday.