Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 7: Ahead of the festive season, the Karnataka government on Tuesday issued guidelines in the form of standard operating procedures (SOPs) to contain the coronavirus spread.

Bengaluru, Oct 7: Even though the Centre has shown green signals to reopen schools and colleges post-October 15 in keeping with the Unlock 5.0 guidelines, the state government of Karnataka mulling to further postpone the reopening process in the wake of alarming spurt in Covid cases.

Bengaluru, Nov 10: Amidst complaints over increasing number of false Covid-19 positive cases in the state, the government has invoked the Karnataka Epidemic Diseases Ordinance 2020 to crack down on people who refuse to get tested.

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken whatever it needed during searches at his residence but said that he has never kept anything "secret".

Gundlupet, Oct 6: A tusker was electrocuted after coming in contact with a live wire on the fence around tomato crop on a farmland at Kurubarahundi, Onkar wildlife range, under Bandipur National Tiger Reserve in Gundlupet taluk on Tuesday.

Bengaluru, Oct 6: A day after the CBI conducted searches at his premises and that of his brother and state Congress chief D K Shivakumar, Bengaluru Rural MP D K Suresh on Tuesday said he has tested positive for Covid-19.

Bengaluru, Oct 6: The Opposition JD(S) in Karnataka decided to field Ammajamma, wife of late party MLA Sathyanarayana, as the party nominee for the Sira Assembly by-election scheduled for November 3.

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Congress Lok Sabha member D K Suresh, brother of KPCC State President D K Shivakumar, on Tuesday claimed that the CBI has recovered only Rs 6.78 lakh cash at the premises during the raid against its claim of Rs 57 lakh recovered during the searches.

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Veteran Sandalwood director Nagesh Babu breathed his last at a private hospital in Bengaluru due to age related illness on Tuesday morning. He was 87 and is survived by wife Shyamala and three children.

Kasaragod, Oct 6: In an unprecedented move early on Tuesday morning, the District Collector and the Divisional Forest Officer here has seized over 850 kilograms of sandalwood from Vidyanagar near here. Forest sources put the value of the seizure at two crore rupees.