Karnataka News

An event during the ongoing Dasara festivities in Mysuru turned into a nightmare for several women who complained of being stalked, sexually harassed and molested.

In an attempt to confront a man for allegedly demanding sexual favours, a women is seen thrashing him on the streets in South Karnataka's Davangere city, some 260 kilometers from Bengaluru.

Three teenage students drowned after they fell into a lake on the outskirts of Bengaluru while taking a selfie, the police said on Monday. The boys were among 50 students from Siddaganga Pre-University College in Tumakuru district who were on a visit to Dobbespet to participate in the National Service Scheme or NSS camp.

By-elections for three Lok Sabha seats and two Assembly seats in Karnataka will be held on November 3. Apart from the Jamkhandi Assembly seat, in which Congress lawmaker Siddu Nyamagouda died earlier this year, all the other seats fell vacant because of resignations.

The principal of a school in Bengaluru was hacked death inside the campusby a gang last morning, police said. The principal was in his office, trying to resolve a dispute related to the land on which the school is built, when a gang of six men barged into his room and allegedly murdered him.

After reports about a fresh batch of swine flu cases in Karnataka surfaced, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner Manjunath Prasad on Sunday assured that there is no need to panic, as the reported numbers are less than the previous year's figures.

A school principal was hacked to death Sunday by a six member gang in front of 20 students, for whom he was holding a special class, police said.

Ending uncertainty over her candidature, the JD(S) on Sunday announced fielding Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's wife Anitha Kumaraswamy in the by-poll to the Ramanagara Assembly constituency.

A 23-year-old man from Karnataka was arrested for allegedly raping and killing a middle-aged woman at Old Goa village, 10 kilometres from state capital Panaji, police said Sunday.

Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa on Friday sought to play down claims by some party colleagues that the Congress-JDS government's days were numbered and BJP would come to power, saying there was no meaning to such comments and his party would function as an opposition.

The Congress, which is in a coalition with the Janata Dal Secular in Karnataka, has reacted to the resignation of N Mahesh from the post of minister of primary and secondary education.

Not for the first time, the global environmental NGO, Greenpeace, is facing the heat from the Indian government. In a move that the organisation has called an effort to "muzzle democratic dissent", the Enforcement Directorate has conducted searches in its offices in Bengaluru and other establishments associated with it and frozen its accounts.

The turf war between the Lokayukta and the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Karnataka will soon be settled by the Karnataka High Court. The High Court will be deciding on two related issues - the legality of the Anti-Corruption Bureau constituted in 2016 by the erstwhile Congress government led by Siddaramaiah and the restoration of power to the Lolayukta to investigate Prevention of Corruption cases against top government officials.

A lawyer, allegedly drunk, thrashed two traffic cops who asked him to stop for a breathalyser test in Karnataka. The incident was caught on cellphones. Rudrappa was riding his motorcycle in Davangere, about 260 km from Bengaluru, when traffic cops suspected he was drunk and asked him to stop.

When an ISKCON temple in Bengaluru organised a quiz on the Bhagavad Gita, a Muslim youngster took home the first prize. Shaik Mohiuddin, a Class 9 student of Subhash Memorial English High School, believes all religions are equal.