When Madhya Pradesh denied entry to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, it was not without reason as the state government was aware of the impending crisis. Though it denied the firing on farmers who were protesting in Mandsaur initially, later it has admitted that six farmers were shot dead in the police firing. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tried ...

Karnataka private engineering colleges’ entrance exam for admissions under COMEDK UGET will be held on May 14, 2017, in 153 cities across the country, perhaps for the last time in its history of over two decades and the cutoff rank is likely to be higher this year. The COMEDK UGET 2017 will be conducted as an online test for admissions ...

Board of Research in Nuclear Science has granted Rs.25 lakh to Bangalore-based RV College of Engineering for conducting research on spatial distribution of uranium and its impact on water in five districts of Karnataka. The grant for three years enables Bangalore’s No.1 engineering college to undertake the project entitled “Spatial distribution of Uranium and associated water quality parameters in Bangalore, Bangalore ...

As Wednesday turned out to be normal with any violence reported, re-opened offices functioning as usual, private schools have finally decided to re-open schools on Thursday and parents may prepare to send their wards in the morning. The BMTC and KSRTC buses are seen plying on Bangalore roads bringing the look of normalcy back to busy Bangalore. However, Wednesday saw ...

Following Bakrid holiday on Tuesday and the State government of Karnataka declaring that it would obey the Supreme Court order and also deal with an iron hand to stop riots and vandalism on the streets, offices may open tomorrow while many schools and colleges in Bangalore decided to close for Wednesday too. BMTC and KSRTC buses may begin plying tomorrow. ...

After a hectic day of fear, social media rumours, TV footage of attacks on stores, buses and vehicles, the day of violence ended with the firing opened on a group of looters with one of them succumbed to death. Otherwise, Tuesday being a holiday for Bakrid, the city is peaceful with no untoward incidents reported so far. Now the tech ...

Following Monday’s riots and fire on the roads of Bangalore over Cauvery verdict by the Supreme Court, for those fearing whether to send their wards to schools or colleges, it is relieving to know that Tuesday remains a holiday for all schools and colleges in Karnataka due to Bakrid, a festival for Muslims. [ALSO  SEE: Bangalore Schools, Colleges to be ...

Supreme Court tweaks its Order on Monday reducing water to be released by Karnataka from 15,000 to 12,000 but increasing the number of day, which effectively means 30,000 more cusecs of water than last Thursday’s verdict. Soon the news spreads like a fireball with pro-Kannada activists taking to streets, burning more than 10 vehicles, damaging TN-bound buses and attacking shops ...

The ongoing dispute over water sharing by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu as per the Supreme Court verdict has turned violent with attacks and counter-attacks plaguing both states alike and another Karanataka Bandh called by pro-Kannada activist groups on Thursday, September 15. On Monday, the Supreme Court modified an earlier order saying Karnataka has to release less river water, instead of ...

The city of Bangalore has a history longer than expected as new stone-age implements discovered by archaeologists show that man wandered in the area 400,000 years ago. Dr K B Shivatarak, retired professor of ancient history and archaeology, Mangalore Universitiy told TOI that he has unearthed the earliest pre-historic evidence in Bangalore that can be traced to stone-age man. “The ...

For cab aggregators Ola and Uber, the message has finally come from the state transport department which has implemented the Karnataka On-demand Transportation Technology Aggregator Rules 2016 that they would be off-roads unless they seek and get a license. The stat transport commissioner’s office on Saturday issued a statement that said: “Web-based aggregators had to obtain licences to operate cabs ...

Sigaranahalli, just 2-km away from Haradanahalli, the native of former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda was in news for banning entry of dalits into a local temple and a community hall that was built from the government funds. On August 31, when members of Sri Basaveshwara Stree Shakti Sangha, a self-help group, consisting of 9 Vokkaliga community and four from ...

AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa will return as Tamil Nadu chief minister once again with the oath taking ceremony scheduled to be held in Chennai at 11 am on Saturday, May 23, 2015, eight months after she quit following her conviction in a Bangalore court over unaccounted assets. Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah will administer the oath tomorrow at the Centenary ...

Karnataka will hold election to 5,844 rural local bodies (gram panchayats) in two phases on May 29 and June 1, said the government ending months-long speculation on civic polls. Counting of votes for both phases will be taken up on June 5. “As new rural local bodies have to be constituted following the expiry of their previous five-year tenure, polling will ...

The ruins of Hampi, known for Vijayanagara Empire, are in news this time for a new species of day-gecko lizard by a team of researchers from Osmania University, Hyderabad and has been named Cnemaspis adii, after a volunteer Aditya Srinivasulu.   Usually habitable in the Western Ghats of India, the new species was found for the first time in the ...

Karnataka organisations and pro-Kannada outfits have called for a bandh on Saturday in the state and Bangalore from 6 am to 6 pm for 12 hours in protest against what they said Tamil Nadu’s attempts to stall the Mekedatu drinking water project across the Cauvery. The move in response to similar bandh observed by Tamil Nadu on March 28 against ...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has been on sabbatical with his mother Sonia Gandhi’s permission but BJP is in a hurry to make him come out of his hiding as soon as possible. His absence in the budget session of Parliament had caused surprise in the party and in the ruling BJP too. While posters in his constituency cropped up ...

Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy came out in the open to accuse the chief minister of Karnataka and his bete noir on Wednesday for visiting the place where post-mortem of the deceased IAS officer D.K.Ravi Kumar’s body took place. “The way our Chief Minister visited the place where post mortem was conducted, (prompts) people feel that he went there ...

Every weekend, Bangalore wakes up to listen to the sad news of some teenagers who went to Mekedatu returning dead and in some cases even their dead bodies are not traceable unless ransom is paid to locals. This weekend too two engineering students who went to Mekedatu never returned and after a day, locals helped to trace the dead body ...

The dreaded swine flu has begun spreading in neighbouring Karnataka from Andhra Pradesh and claimed six lives in the state, including 4 in Bangalore and one each in Bidar and Raichur districts, a senior health official said on Sunday. “Though 95 people, affected by the H1N1 influenza over the last two weeks, tested positive and have been under treatment, six ...