Karnataka News

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.

The family from Tumkur was living in a lodge in Mysore, 145 km away from state capital Bengaluru.

Faced with criticism in some quarters over his government's offer to rename flood-hit villages after donors who contribute more than Rs 10 crore for relief works, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Friday said only new layouts would be rechristened.

A 12-year-old boy who safely guided an ambulance out of a flooded bridge was felicitated by Deputy Commissioner Sharat B on Independence Day.

Several Congress leaders in Karnataka on Thursday sought a probe into allegations of phone tapping during the previous coalition government headed by HD Kumaraswamy in which they were partners, as the ruling BJP upped the ante on the matter.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday said he will be in Delhi for the next two days during which he would hold talks with party president Amit Shah and finalise the much awaited expansion of his cabinet.

Amid growing demand to reserve jobs for Karnataka residents, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said today that his government is committed to ensuring that employment opportunities of Kannadigas are never compromised and they get a lion's share of jobs.

A 12-year-old boy emerged a hero after guiding an ambulance across a bridge, near the Hirerayanakumpi village in Karnataka's Raichur district, submerged by incessant rain

The Indian meteorological department (IMD) sounded red alert in south Karnataka, as heavy rains set to pound Kodagu, Chikkamagluru and Dakshina Kannada districts on Thursday, while there was a respite from rains in the other regions of the state.

Karnataka floods: Incessant rain in the state has weakened the roots of several trees. Coupled with strong winds, tree felling has become a common sight.