Karnataka, India News

Bangalore: The Karnataka Government on Wednesday announced Ekalavya Awards for 30 sportspersons for the years 2007 and 2008.

SHIMOGA: Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer Pankaj Kumar Pandey said here on Sunday that preparations for election to the Shimoga Local Authorities constituency of the Legislative Council had begun.

HUBLI: The special flight carrying the former Union Law Minister Ram Jethmalani had to delay its landing at Hubli airport as the dry grass next to the runway caught fire.

MANGALORE: The Students' Federation of India , Democratic Youth Federation of India and Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike have condemned the alleged vigilante attack on six students of Government PU College at Vamanjoor on Sunday.

Mumbai Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty is now a married woman. In one of the most awaited weddings of tinseltown, the actress tied the knot with London-based businessman Raj Kundra in a lavish ceremony in Khandala.

Nearly a year after the Mumbai attacks, the country's Western coast hosting several petroleum and nuclear installations are still vulnerable to terror strikes from the sea route.

MK Madhusoodan / DNAFriday, November 20, 2009 9:11 IST Email Bangalore: Just three days after the Andhra police's anti-terrorist squad nabbed three Naxals from the suburbs of Bangalore city, an anti-Naxal force constable of the Chikmagalur base, was found dead on the road in Shyamabattarapalya in Nelamangala taluk of Bangalore Rural district on ...

Belgaum, Nov. 20- Former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader B. Shankaranand died at a private hospital here in the wee hours of today following a cardiac arrest, according to family sources.

Goa Police Thursday dismissed media reports about a possible terror threat to the forthcoming International Film Festival of India which gets underway here Nov 23.

India Gazette Wednesday 18th November, 2009 A church in north Karnataka has been vandalized and a cross, doors and windows have been damaged, police and church authorities said Wednesday.

An understanding: Newly-sworn in Minister Jagadish Shettar , Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Governor H.R. Bhardwaj after the swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Bangalore on Tuesday.

BANGALORE: Aniketh B.L, an eighth standard student of M.G.N. Pai High School Shimoga secured first prize in the State-level essay competition conducted by Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd.

Udupi, Nov 14: Deputy Director General , Recruitment Zone, Bangalore, Brig J C Kushalappa, today said the response from youths to join the army was comparatively low in south Karnataka than north Karnataka.

Karnataka Assembly Speaker Jagadish Shettar, a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party leader in the state, is set to return to active politics at a time when the party's first government in southern India is battling dissidence.

KANNUR: Parents of James, who was found dead at Kuntady near Thottathady in Karnataka on July 30, have sought an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the cause of their son's death.

It's free for all in Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the state government even though it just about survived a dissident assault to unseat Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.

Bangalore, Nov 11: As India's premier IT destination, Karnataka is pitching for rapid growth of the electronic hardware industry to replicate its success in the software sector achieved over the last decade.

BELGAUM: Global aerospace majors such as Europe's SABCA and Canada's Magellan Aerospace will set up shops in India's first special economic zone devoted exclusively for the aviation industry here.

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Bangalore: The Anti-Naxal Force of the Karnataka police conducted a three-day combing operation in the thick forests of the Western Ghats encompassing four districts of the State.