Karnataka News

A 15-year-old girl has been arrested on charges of murdering her father and setting his body on fire with a friend's help in Bengaluru, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) N Shashikumar said today. According to police, the girl was angry with the 41-year-old victim -- a clothes merchant -- because he had allegedly beaten her up a few days ago over her "friendship" with the co-accused.

Congress leader Siddaramaiah today called Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa a "pathological liar" for claiming that he had sought a CBI probe into allegations of phone tapping by the previous coalition government led by HD Kumaraswamy.

Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya has hit out at a group of Kannada activists who allegedly vandalised Hindi banners put up for a Jain function in the Karnataka capital two days ago, claiming that such incidents only serve to defame "genuine" lovers of the regional language.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa will finally get a cabinet, over three weeks after he was sworn in following the fall of the previous Congress-Janata Dal Secular coalition government.

With Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa announcing a CBI probe into the alleged phone tapping case during the previous Janata Dal Secular (JDS)-Congress coalition government, former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday said he was ready for probe by even an international agency.

Heavy rainfall is predicted during the next 24 hours at most places over coastal Karnataka and south interior Karnataka and at a few places over the north interior of the state, the India Meteorological Department said today.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa's decision to order a CBI investigation into the allegations of phone-tapping during the coalition government of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal Secular, has drawn a sharp retort from Siddaramaiah.

Five high school students died of electrocution while allegedly trying to remove a flagpole erected for the Independence Day celebrations at their government-run hostel in Koppal as they came in contact with an overhead power line, police said.

Days after charges of phone tapping during the previous coalition government headed by JDS surfaced, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Sunday said he will order a CBI probe into the allegations citing demands by several Congress leaders.

The cabinet expansion of the BJP government in Karnataka will take place on Tuesday, over three weeks after party leader BS Yediyurappa was appointed as the Chief Minister. A meeting of the BJP legislature party will also be held that morning.

Police filed a chargesheet in the murder of Karnataka scholar MM Kalburgi today, four years after he was shot dead outside his Dharwad home in August 2015. The case was initially probed by the Crime Investigation Department, before being handed over to a special investigation team looking into the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh.

A 36-year-old Mysuru businessman allegedly shot dead his parents, wife and son before killing himself near Bandipur in Karnataka's Chamarajanagar district, the police said on Friday.

Security arrangements across major towns and cities in Karnataka have been beefed up after a high alert was sounded on Friday. The police said it was only an extension of the usual alert sounded for the Independence Day.

Even as the clamour grows for a probe into the alleged phone-tapping scandal during the previous Congress-JD(S) government headed by H D Kumaraswamy, senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Friday rejected the snooping charges, and appeared to take side with the former chief minister

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Friday and appealed for release of funds immediately to take up relief work in the flood-hit state.