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No minor girls were raped in Karnataka, shows NCRB data

Highlights There are no incidents of rape of girls below 18 years of age in Karnataka, the recently released ‘Crime In India - 2021’...

Two Idgah grounds: Ganesh festival on at Hubballi, not in Bengaluru

Highlights Two petitions opposing permission to hold Ganesh Chaturthi festival at two Idgah grounds in Karnataka drew two different rulings on Tuesday. While the...

Corruption charge: B C Nagesh to sue school forum chief

Highlights Minister for School Education & Literacy B C Nagesh said Monday that he would sue for defamation Lokesh Talikatte, president of the Registered Unaided...

Aspirants of govt quota seats worried as KEA delays allotment process

Highlights Thousands of students waiting for engineering admissions at private universities through the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) based on Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET)...

Ganesha fest at Idgah Maidan: Wakf Board moves SC

Highlights The State Wakf Board has approached the Supreme Court challenging the the Karnataka High Court’s interim order favouring the Revenue Department to go...

One lakh housing scheme: Finally, 2K houses ready in Karnataka

Highlights Six years after the scheme to provide one lakh houses to the urban poor was announced, the Karnataka government is ready to distribute...

Six BJP rallies in Sept, Oct: Bommai

Highlights Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said that the BJP will hold big rallies at six places in Karnataka in September and October....

Bengaluru-Mysuru highway flooded, 249 buses diverted

Highlights Several buses heading towards Mysuru were diverted by KSRTC on Monday due to heavy flooding on the busy Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway via Kanakapura-Harohalli and...

Copious rain, poor infra work leaves Karnataka flooded

Highlights The severe flooding in Chamarajanagar, Ramanagara and surrounding areas is an unusual phenomenon, and locals and experts say this is the first time...

NHAI asked to install temporary drains along Bengaluru-Mysuru highway to prevent highway flooding

Highlights Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the state government has directed National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to install a temporary drainage...