Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 3: Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Hyderabad, has returned the hair samples of actors Sanjjanaa Galrani and Ragini Dwivedi stating that due process was not followed while submitting the evidence for testing. The two Sandalwood stars are currently questioned as part of the investigation into drug menace involving the film industry’s alleged links in drug rackets.

Bengaluru, Oct 2: Keen to scale up testing infrastructure for Covid-19, the Karnataka government has decided to establish RT-PCR labs in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model and the tender process for it would be taken up soon, medical education minister K Sudhakar said on Friday.

Belagavi, Oct 2: Police have arrested five people, in connection with murder of two women, including a pregnant woman, recently in the City over family enmity and money.

Bengaluru, Oct 2: As many as fifteen engineers have reportedly been injured following a blast which took place at the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) plant located at Yelahanka, on Friday morning.

Bengaluru, Oct 2: Karnataka Minister for Textile, Shrimant Patil, tested positive for COVID-19 and is receiving treatment for the disease.

Benglauru, Oct 2: Former Karnataka Minister and MLA Aravind Limbavali, who headed a fact-finding committee of the ruling BJP to probe the recent east Bengaluru violence said there was no wrongdoing by the police and demanded that the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) be banned.

Bengaluru, Oct 2: A large section of the Kannada film fraternity expressed its happiness over the Union Home Ministry's decision to allow theatres and multiplexes to function with 50% seating capacity from October 15 onwards. However, a small group of film producers, who invested in big budget movies, are apparently unhappy over the condition of 50% seating capacity.

Bengaluru, Oct 2: Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar and former State Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday took part in a protest condemning the incident wherein party leader Rahul Gandhi was roughed and detained by Uttar Pradesh police while he was on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to meet the family of gangrape victim along with party's general secretary Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders.

Bengaluru, Oct 3: The death toll due to COVID-19 in Karnataka breached the 9,000 mark on Friday, as the state reported 8,793 new cases of coronavirus and 125 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 6,20,630, the health department said.

Bengaluru, Oct 1: A decision to reopen schools in Karnataka has not yet been made and will be done so based on the health of students and parents' concern and in consultation with stakeholders in the education field, S Suresh Kumar, State Minister for Primary and Secondary Education said on Thursday. "In Karnataka, we haven't decided on which date schools can be reopened. We are in the process of