Bengaluru

Initially there was a poor turnout with an average polling percentage of 8.5 till 10 am. However, it picked up later in the afternoon.

As epicentre of the virus, accounting for 50 per cent of the state's cases, Bengaluru Urban district registered 2,468 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, taking its Covid tally to 3,25,773, including 51,672 active cases, while 2,70,366 recovered so far, wit...

Ganesh went to a butcher's shop at Cottonpet area to purchase meat, stole a knife from there, ran away and stabbed six people at random.

He claimed that the CBI has accounted for only Rs 6.78 lakh cash seized at their premises, though it said Rs 57 lakh was recovered during the searches.

Monday's searches may not have come as a shocker to Shivakumar who, on a few occasions in the recent past, had made some references in his statements to an imminent CBI operation.

Most new housing projects are either unsold or delayed due to the Covid-19 at the fastest rate in the world – causing massive job losses, pay cuts and migration of labour out of top-tier cities.

The Chief Minister had said after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president JP Nadda last week that he expected directions from them in a couple of days.

n the wake of the pandemic, Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri has made it mandatory for all those attending it to undergo RT-PCR test for COVID-19 infection, 72hours prior to the start of the monsoon session from September21.

If the labs delay results for more than 48 hours, they will have to pay a 10% additional penalty fee. They will also have to simultaneously upload the results on the ICMR portal, a practice followed since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

The officer, RP Sharma, serving as the Director General of Karnataka Police Housing Corporation, has been admitted to a private hospital with a bullet injury in his neck.

The economy is forecast to contract 8.1% in the current quarter and 1.0% in the next – a downgrade from 6.0% and 0.3% contraction, respectively, predicted in a July 29 poll, dashing hopes of a recovery this year.

The tweets by Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar came amid reports that 23 Congress leaders have written to party chief Sonia Gandhi on the leadership issue.

The incident occurred almost 10 days ago and police registered a case on Wednesday on the offence and are interrogating the matter.

For the past few days the officials have been scouring a suitable place to conduct the council meeting.

Besides criticism from opposition Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), education experts, teachers and students protested against dropping the lesson on the Mysore ruler.

According to reports, the "flash mob" at Bellaris Government Dental College on Sunday included doctors and medical staff.