More dart guns to control stray wild animals
Bengaluru: The Forest Department will soon set up Quick Response Units in all the 12 Wildlife Circles of Karnataka to manage animal straying incidents.
Presently the wildlife tranquilising squads are
HC directs Karnataka to withdraw film awards
Bengaluru: In a huge embarrassment for the state government and the Kannada film industry, the High Court has stepped in and directed that the state film awards announced for the year 2010-11 be with
Posco scraps $5.3b steel plant in Karnataka
Bengaluru: In a major setback to the state government Posco – a subsidiary of South Korean steel giant, the Pohang Steel Company Limited – on Tuesday decided to scrap its proposed 6 MTPA (million ton
BSY, BJP walk out ‘hand in hand’
Bengaluru: A return to 2004? Or events that foreshadow a future realignment of the opposition? Former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa led a first of its kind walkout from the assembly on Tuesday, wi
‘Siddaramaiah has not changed’
Bengaluru: Many in the party, particularly those in the coterie of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, feel that Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Dr G. Parameshwar is out to create pr
Karnataka launches Re 1 rice scheme
Bengaluru: Amid voices of dissent even within the ruling party over the viability of such a cripplingly expensive scheme and criticism by Opposition parties that it would turn a labour force into laz
BJP will instigate communal riots in Congress states: Digvijay Singh
Bengaluru: AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday alleged that BJP would instigate communal riots in Congress-ruled states ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as the opposition party feel
Manipal victim raped 7 km from campus
Udupi: Scared that the gangrape victim would escape and attract public attention in Eshwar Nagar, the three accused took the Kasturba Medical College student to a secluded place in Atrady, around 7 k
Manipal: Rape confirmed, no arrests yet
Udupi: The medical report by Kasturba Medical College Hospital (KMC) in Manipal has confirmed that the 22-year-old MBBS student who was abducted in an autorickshaw by three men from the university
10 fast track courts for sex crimes
Bengaluru: In the wake of the gangrape at Manipal, the state government has decided to quicken the process of setting up 10 fast track courts to cases on atrocities against women. Speaking to reporte