Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu tests positive for coronavirus
Aug 10, 2020, at 01:41 am
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister B Sriramulu on Sunday said that he has tested positive for COVID-19.
Karnataka: Heavy rain may obstruct rescue operations by NDRF at landslide sites
Aug 07, 2020, at 07:51 pm
Madikeri/UNI: The heavy rain in the region is likely to pose threat to the rescue operations being carried out by the NDRF, police and fire service personnel at the site where landslides had occurred at Talacauvery in Kodagu district on Friday.
Karnataka govt orders special poojas in temples during Ram temple 'bhoomi pujan'
Aug 05, 2020, at 01:29 am
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Government on Tuesday issued a circular asking the temples to organise the special puja and prayers following the COVID-19 guidelines for the successful ‘bhoomi pujan’ at Ayodhya for the completion of the Ram temple and the well being of the people of the country.
Karnataka: BJP MLA tests positive for Covid-19
Aug 04, 2020, at 08:45 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Former minister and senior BJP MLA, Haratal Halappa, representing Sagar Assembly seat in Shivamogga district, tested positive for the Covid-19 on Tuesday.
Karnataka: Local court issues summons to CM Yediyurappa for election code of conduct violation
Jul 25, 2020, at 06:47 pm
Gokak/UNI: A JMFC magistrate here issued summons to Chief minister B S Yediyurappa in relation to a complaint for the alleged violation of election code of conduct, during by-elections to the Gokak Assembly seat held last year.
Karnataka: Family of three die by suicide
Jul 25, 2020, at 05:18 pm
Dharwad/UNI: A 36 year-old man poisoned her wife and two year-old child before allegedly consuming poison over fear of losing job due to Covid-19 in the city on Saturday.
Karnataka: Dalit man stripped, beaten for allegedly touching bike
Jul 20, 2020, at 07:11 pm
Vijayapura/IBNS: In a video which has been trending on internet since Monday morning, a Dalit man was seen pinned to the ground, stipped and beaten for allegedly touching a bike of one who belongs to an upper caste, media reports said.
Covid-19: Karnataka announces complete lockdown in Bengaluru for 7 days
Jul 12, 2020, at 02:24 am
Bengaluru/IBNS: The Karnataka government has announced a complete lockdown in Bengaluru urban and rural districts for seven days starting from Tuesday to stem the further spread of Covid-19.
COVID-19: Karnataka imposes 33 hour curfew
Jul 05, 2020, at 03:21 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka imposed a 33 hour curfew as a precautionary measure to curb the increase of cases due to Coronavirus.
Covid-19: Karnataka Govt cuts down working days to 5; clamps complete lockdown on Sundays
Jun 27, 2020, at 11:21 pm
Bengaluru/ UNI: Alarmed by the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, the state government on Saturday decided to reduce the working days from six days to five days a week and clamp lockdown on every Sunday from next week.
HD Deve Gowda back in Parliament as all Karnataka Rajya Sabha candidates elected unopposed
Jun 13, 2020, at 11:37 am
Bengaluru/IBNS: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda will be back in Parliament as he along with three other candidates from Karnataka for the Rajya Sabha polls were elected unopposed last evening.
Karnataka govt permits plying of buses, autos during night curfew
Jun 05, 2020, at 01:43 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: The Karnataka government has permitted transport services to operate during the curfew hours between 9 pm and 5 am across the state with an immediate effect.
COVID-19 positive cases in K'taka soar to 4320
Jun 04, 2020, at 08:04 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: With the reporting of 257 fresh cases of COVID-19, the total number of infected surged to 4320 in Karnataka on Thursday.
Karnataka asks PM Modi to allow reopening of temples, mosques, churches from Jun 1
May 27, 2020, at 03:47 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: The BS Yediyurappa government in Karnataka has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow the reopening of all religious places, shut during the lockdown, in the southern state from Jun 1, media reports said.
Karnataka: Elephants create panic on Bangalore-Chennai highway
May 25, 2020, at 11:26 pm
Chittoor/UNI: A herd of elephants created panic on Bangalore – Chennai highway on Monday evening.
Covid-19: Karnataka gearing up for 36-hour lock-down tomorrow
May 23, 2020, at 01:53 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka, which is witnessing sharp increase in the number of affected due to coronavirus in the recent days, is gearing up for a 36-hour statewide total lock-down from Sunday.
Nursing students from Goa stranded in Karnataka, Kerala brought back
May 15, 2020, at 01:50 pm
Panaji/UNI: As many as 60 nursing students from Goa who were stranded in Karnataka and 25 people stranded in Kerala due to national wide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, were brought to Goa by five different buses on Thursday.
22 migrant labourers flee quarantine centre in Chhattisgarh
May 08, 2020, at 02:59 pm
Raipur/ IBNS: At least 22 migrant labourers, who had returned from Telangana, ran away from a quarantine centre in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, said a media report.
Facing flak, Karnataka resumes train services for migrant workers
May 07, 2020, at 06:18 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: After facing flak for cancelling special trains for the stranded migrant workers, the Karnataka government has decided to resume services from Friday, media reports said.
After Yediyurappa's meeting with builders, Karnataka cancels trains for migrant workers
May 06, 2020, at 02:09 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: The Karnataka government on Wednesday cancelled all trains which were about to take stranded migrant workers back to their homes, following a meeting between between Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and property builders, media reports said.
Covid-19 Outbreak in India: Elderly woman dies in Karnataka's Vijyapura
May 05, 2020, at 01:37 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: A 62-year-old COVID-19 positive woman succumbed to the deadly virus in a Vijayapura hospital on Tuesday morning.
Covid-19: Karnataka govt extends free bus service to migrant workers for 2 more days
May 04, 2020, at 03:48 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddiyurappa on Monday extended free bus services to migrant workers leaving to their native places for two more days.
COVID-19: Karnataka announces free travel for migrant labourers returning home within the state
May 03, 2020, at 03:54 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: The Karnataka government on Sunday announced that migrant labourers returning home could travel for free for the next three days on state-run buses.
Karnataka: COVID-19 patient jumps off Victoria Hospital building
Apr 27, 2020, at 12:14 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: A 50-year-old Covid-19 patient committed suicide by jumping from the top floor of the Victoria Hospital here on Monday.
Four labourers from Kerala held while entering Karnataka via forest
Apr 27, 2020, at 12:06 pm
Madikeri/UNI: Four labourers, who were travelling to Kerala via Makutta on foot, were stopped by Karnataka Forest Department officials and handed over to police.
Covid-19: Five held for assault on doctors and Asha workers, test positive in Bengaluru
Apr 24, 2020, at 02:58 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Five people among those arrested for the violence against doctors and Asha workers in Padarayanapura last Sunday have tested positive for the dreaded Coronavirus, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said on Friday.
Covid-19 quarantine team attacked by mob in Bengaluru; 54 arrested
Apr 20, 2020, at 05:55 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: At least 54 people have been arrested after a team of health workers and policemen were attacked in a West Bengaluru neighbourhood on Sunday evening, when they went to quarantine the people who had come in contact with three coronavirus patients, said media reports.
Apr 17, 2020, at 08:24 pm
Kalburgi/IBNS: In another incident of blatant defiance of lockdown norms, a large number of people gathered at a temple in one of Karnataka's COVID-19 hotspots Kalburgi, said media reports.
HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil marries former Congress minister's grand-niece amid lockdown
Apr 17, 2020, at 06:20 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: Drawing criticism for allegedly flouting social distancing norms amid the COVID-19 crisis, former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil tied the nuptial knot with ex-Congress minister M Krishnappa's grand-niece Revathi on Friday morning.
Karnataka BJP MLA violates lockdown rules by hosting birthday party in Tumkuru
Apr 11, 2020, at 03:58 pm
Bengaluru/IBNS: A Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA blew out the social distancing norms out of the window amid the nationwide lockdown by hosting his grand birthday party in Tumkuru, media reports said.