As the train and bus services were completely called off, most of the workers have started to walk all the way back from Bengaluru to their home in Bihar.

More females have been testing Covid positive in the states for the last two days. 705 fresh COVID positive cases were reported in the state on Thursday.

The most number of cases were reported from Davanagere with 14 cases, while 12 of the new cases were from Uttara Kannada's Bhatkal town and 11 from Belagavi.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has designated various eminent institutions across the country as mentor institutions to raise testing capability.

Bengaluru, May 4 () A 56-year old man from Kalaburagi became the 26th COVID-19 related fatality in Karnataka, as the state reported 28 new cases, taking the total number of infections to 642, the Health Department said on Monday. Davangere, which was in the green zone has seen as purt in cases with 21 out of 28 cases coming from the district.The deceased was a known case of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and was admitted on April 29 with complaints of cough and fever, the department said in its mid-day situation update.His chest X-ray showed bilateral patchy pneumonitisand he died at designated hospital in Kalaburagi, it said."Twenty-eight new positive cases have been reportedfrom last evening to this noon...Till date 642 COVID-19positive cases have been confirmed. This includes

Satish Acharya on... Rahul Gandhi and mission Karnataka.

The Congress central leadership today began the process of consultations with MLAs on choosing the new chief minister with Siddaramaiah and Union Minister Mallikarjun Kharge locked in a close race for the top post. A four-member team of AICC ...

Karnataka Election Watch (KEW) also said today 93% or 203 MLAs of the total 218 analysed are crorepatis

Solar cell manufacturer First Solar is looking to setup a manufacturing unit with an investment of Rs 6,000 cr

The company has now received demand notice for the further period i.e. 2013-14 from the Commercial Tax Department, Karnataka aggregating to Rs. 85.19 crores (including interest & penalty) by treating the stock transfers of its Mangalore Plant as interstate sales to dealers.

The Karnataka government may not extend the daily working hours from 8 to 12, with Labour Minister A Shivaram Hebbar saying on Saturday that the move would neither benefit the industries nor workers. Hebbar told PTI that the proposal has not been discussed and it may come for final deliberations next week. He also noted that some States have already extended the working hours. More than extending working hours, there should be employment to be given. If there are no jobs what can be done by extending working hours? If it is done (working hours extended to 12 hours), it would not neither benefit workers nor industries. Let's see what happens, he said. Asked if the government was in favour of the extension, he said, "I don't think it will be ready for the (12 hour) proposal." Meanwhile, the Minister also said that their top priority now was to see that all MSMEs start operating again, salaries are paid to employees and there are no job losses for any reason. If industries ...

Thirty Six new COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of infections in the state to 789, health department said on Saturday. "36 new positive cases have been reported from last evening to this noon....Till date 789 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed. This includes 30 deaths and 379 discharges," the department said in its mid day situation report. The 36 new cases include- 12 from Bengaluru urban, seven from Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada, five from Davangere, three each from- Bantawal in Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga and Bidar, and one each from Tumakuru, Davangere and Vijayapura. While most cases are contacts of patients already tested positive, three are with travel history to Ahmedabad, two are from a containment zone in Bengaluru, and one person's contact is under tracing.

The Karnataka government has announced one-time financial relief of Rs 5,000 each to over 11,000 cobbler families in the state, whose daily life was affected by the COVID-19 induced lockdown. According to Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has announced one time financial relief of Rs 5,000 for each of these families. "Due to COVID-19 lockdown about 11,722 families involved in road side leather work, like mending chappals and shoes, are in financial distress and their daily life has been affected," he said on Friday. The compensation will be distributed to beneficiaries through Babu Jagjivan Ram Leather Industries Corporation, Karjol, who is also in-charge of Social Welfare department, said. A delegation of opposition leaders led by the leader of opposition Siddaramaiah had met Chief Minister Yediyurappa yesterday and demanded that people belonging to sections like goldsmiths, carpenters, cobblers, tailors and ironsmiths be considered ...

The Karnataka government has allowed garment units in red zone districts, but outside containment zones, to resume operations with one third of the workforce. Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar in the May 8 order, said all recognised garment factories having an Importer- Exporter Code (IEC) and those registered with the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) can start operations with one third of the total workforce in red zone districts, but outside containment zones. It said the permission is subject to following of the Standard Operating Procedures. Currently Bengaluru urban, Bengaluru rural and Mysuru are the red zone districts in the state. The government had recently allowed certain industrial activities other than in the containment zones to operate, while relaxing the COVID-19 induced lockdown in the state. During the earlier phases of lockdown, only those garments involved in the manufacture of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits for front line COVID ...

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Karnataka Power Minister K S Eshwarappa has alleged that liquor had been used to woo voters to vote for Chief Minister B S Yedyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra, who won the recently-held Lok Sabha polls from Shimoga.Eshwarappa's comments come in the wake of Yeddyurappa's allegations about the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader not doing enough to ensure that his won wins by a larger margin.

Subramaniam Vincent profiles eGovernments Foundation's partnership with Karnataka to create better property-tracking systems, and notes the early gains for the state.

Water table reports in Karnataka show that the future looks bleak. While rainwater harvesting (RWH) is looked upon as a viable solution and has become a buzzword, the state has only taken an incremental implementation path, with urban areas currently leading rural areas, reports Padmalatha Ravi.

A citizens forum at Bangalore has been spearheading interventions using the Karnataka Right to Information Act for the past year. The Katte members' focus has helped expose the law's weaknesses and make recommendations to better the recently passed Central Right to Information Bill. Kathyayini Chamaraj reports.

The proposed 1000 MW coal-fired power plant at Chamalapura, Mysore, to be located on agricultural land and within 30 kilometres of the Nagarhole and Bandipur national parks, evoked strong protests last year. Recent announcements indicate that the government is going slow. Nandini Chami has more.

Karnataka's plan to harvest power from the Gundia river that runs through the Hassan and Dakshin Kannada districts has been criticised by environmentalists, farmers and the Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. Bhanu Sridharan investigates.

A long history of questionable practices in the mining industry catches up with its practitioners, landing the whole affair in the Supreme Court. Kanchi Kohli reports.

For the last one year, Parameshwara Hegde Tumbemane hasn’t taken his banana crop to the market. He has instead used it to make sukeli, a delicious dried version and that is getting popular in the Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Shrikrishna D has more.

Even as Justice Santosh Hegde credibly exposed the Karnataka government for its many scams, senior state politicans and Bangalore's academics worry that nothing will eventually come of it. Sriram Vittalamurthy reports from an October meeting in the city.

Legal and procedural lapses as well as disregard of critical public submissions are tarnishing the EIA of the proposed Tadadi Port in Karnataka. Kanchi Kohli reports.

A 24-year-old woman, with her four-month-old son in arms, walked nearly 15km under the blazing sun in Bagalkot district on Thursday to seek police protection from her jail-returned husband, who threatened to kill them late Wednesday.

The coronavirus count touched 61 in Davanagere with 14 more testing positive for the virus on Friday. Five of them are children between 3 and 13 years.

In a few videos by News18, some people in Kolar, a small town in Karnataka, were spotted bursting crackers outside wine shops as well.

The man, named Kumar, had just bought a few bottles of alcohol from a liquor shop on Tuesday and was riding away when he ran over the snake.

Opposition and Karnataka residents slammed the state government for treating migrant workers as "bonded labour" and holding them against their will.

A total of 19,245 players registered for the CheckmateCovid Chess Tournament and GM Ankit Rajpara won it.

Although both the state and central governments have relaxed restrictions of the lockdown primarily to steer the economy back on track, the rising number of Covid-19 cases across Karnataka is likely to further delay reopening of schools and colleges for the 2020-21 academic

Former chief minister of Karnataka and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday asked the state government to demand a special economic package of at least Rs 50,000 crore from the centre to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

J Arunkumar was on Tuesday announced as the new head coach of the USA men's cricket team. Arunkumar played 109 first-class matches for Karnataka and scored 7208 runs and is also one of the most successful coaches in Karnataka's history.

The order comes as Karnataka generated nearly Rs 200 crore in revenues due to the sale of alcohol this week.

The transfer of over 100 miscreants, who are accused of attacking the health workers in Bengaluru, to neighbouring Ramanagara district prison, has snowballed into a full blown political war in Karnataka.

In his letter to Thackeray, the Karnataka Chief Minister said there is severe drinking water problem in Belagavi, Vijayapura, Bagalkot, Kalaburagi, Yadgir and Raichur districts since the onset of summer in March.

In a damage control exercise, state chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Saturday directed the KSRTC to charge only single fare for ferrying the migrant labourers.

The Congress on Monday had said its state units will bear the cost of rail travel of needy migrant workers stranded at their workplaces due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

The Congress said the decision to go back or stay in the state should be with the labourers and not the government, with the former being free to choose health or work.

Here's the full list of Karnataka State Film Awards 2018 winners announced by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa.

Bengaluru, Apr 29: The Karnataka government has sought the help of ISRO on improving the efficiency of road transport corporations in the state, using its technology. Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, who is also the Minister in-charge of Transport Department,

The BSE benchmark Sensex tumbled over 245 points in early session on Wednesday amid uncertainty over government formation in Karnataka and sustained foreign fund outflows. The 30-share index was trading lower by 245.23 points, or 0.69%, at 35,298.71. On Tuesday,

The Dakshin Kannada Pre University Principals Association (DKPUCPA) has released the 1st PUC result 2020 on May 5. The sources suggest that 1st PUC result would be available both online and offline. The 1st PUC result Karnataka would be sent through

Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has rescheduled the dates of Karnataka CET 2016. The KCET 2016 is rescheduled to be held on May 4, 2016 instead of May 1, 2016. The dates are rescheduled as the earlier exam dates were in clash

Karnataka Management Aptitude Test (KMAT) 2016 exam dates is declared. The Karnataka Private Post Graduate Colleges' Association (KPPGCA) has scheduled the exam date for May 29, 2016. Students who wish to seek admission to any of the following courses- Master of