Chikkaballapur: At least five persons were killed and one received severe injuries in a suspected gelatine explosion at a quarry site in Hirenagavalli hamlet bordering Chikkaballapur and Bengaluru in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, police said. Hirenagavalli is a small hamlet in Chikballapur taluk in Chikballapur district of Karnataka. It is located 86 kms … Read more
Bengaluru: Continuing his tirade against Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, ruling BJP’s ‘rebel’ legislator Basangouda Patil Yatnal on Sunday set March 31 as deadline for the state government to provide job quota to the Panchamasali sect of the Lingayat community. “Yediyurappa will face severe consequences if he does not include Panchamasali sub-caste in the 2A … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted protection from arrest to Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and state minister Murugesh Nirani in connection with a land allocation case, in which they had failed to grant 26 acres of land to private investor M. Alam Pasha in 2011. A bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde … Read more
New Delhi: A total of four people have died following immunisation against coronavirus till now, but the death of three of them have been found to be not related to the vaccination, while the post-mortem report of the fourth person is awaited, the government said on Wednesday. Four persons have died till now – one … Read more
Belagavi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and B.S. Yediyurappa as Chief Minister, Karnataka has a double engine government to drive growth in the state. “With Modi at the Centre and Yediyurappa in the state, Karnataka has a double engine driving its growth and development on all … Read more
Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar on Saturday said nearly 62 per cent of designated frontline health workers were inoculated but not a case of serious side effect was reported across the state as part of the first day. He was speaking to the media after the video conference with the Union Health Minister Harsh … Read more
Bengaluru: Even as the crew members of “K.G.F. Chapter 2”, an upcoming Kannada period action film written and directed by Prashanth Neel, are basking in the glory of its teaser receiving over 132 million views on YouTube since its release on January 7, the Karnataka health department has issued a show-cause notice to Yash, the … Read more
Koppal (Karnataka): The next time your child plays with a remote controlled car, watch it, as it might well be manufactured in Karnataka. Bhanapur, a remote village in Koppal district, is poised to attain star status with the Karnataka government the laying foundation stone for the country’s first toy manufacturing cluster in the village on … Read more
Bengaluru: Karnataka on Thursday formally launched ‘Krishi Sanjeevini’ (mobile agro clinics) to help farmers in their own backyards. As part of this scheme, 40 mobile agro clinics were rolled from outside the Vidhana Soudha. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, along with his cabinet colleagues, Deputy CM Lakshman Savadi, Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil and Cooperation Minister S.T. Somashekhar, … Read more
Bengaluru: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister K. Sudhakar said on Wednesday that the health department is keeping a tight vigil on the passengers who returned from the United Kingdom to Bengaluru after November 25. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with the members of the Karnataka Technical Advisory Committee (K-TAC) for Covid-19 at the … Read more