Karnataka

Karnataka Cong chief quits over poor show in byelections

7:26 pm December 9, 2019

Bengaluru: Congress state president Dinesh Gundu Rao on Monday announced his resignation, taking moral responsibility for the party’s poor show in the Karnataka assembly bypolls The Congress, which held 12 of the 15 seats where byelections were held on December five, won only two, in a huge set-back to the opposition party. In sharp contrast, […]

BLR airport’s second runway commences operations

7:53 pm December 6, 2019

Bengaluru: The Kempegowda International Airport here commenced operations on the new South Runway with the landing of the first flight on the 4,000-metres long and 45-metres wide airstrip on Friday. This makes the BLR Airport the first in the country to operate independent parallel runways, enabling aircraft to land or take-off simultaneously on both runways, […]

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Woman burnt alive in front of husband, 2 kids after car catches fire

7:21 pm December 5, 2019

Bengaluru: A woman was burnt alive right in front of her husband and two sons after the car she was travelling in suddenly caught fire on Thursday in Karnataka’s Bidar district. The incident happened when 39-year-old Kalyani from Hyderabad was driving the vehicle while her husband and their two sons aged 10 and 7 were […]

MLA attacked at wedding in Karnataka

11:05 am November 18, 2019

Bengaluru: Congress MLA and former Karnataka Minister Tanveer Sait was attacked by a man, with a knife, at a wedding ceremony in Mysuru late on Sunday night, police said. Sait, the Narasimharaja constituency MLA, was immediately rushed to a hospital in Mysuru, where he underwent a surgery, they said. The attacker has been identified as […]

Karnataka by-polls: ‘Crorepatis’ galore in Hoskote constituency

7:06 pm November 17, 2019

Bengaluru: Hoskote, one of the 15 assembly constituencies that is expected to witness a high stake battle for December 5 bypolls in Karnataka has “Crorepatis” in the fray. The constituency on the outskirts of Bengaluru is seeing a three-cornered contest between BJP, Congress and JD(S) supported independent candidate. While the ruling BJP has fielded MTB […]