Bengaluru

"The final year offline classes are already underway successfully.The classes of first, second and third year students will start from January 15," Narayan told reporters after chairing a meeting with the officials.

Speaking to reporters here after two days of marathon region wise meeting with MLAs by the Chief Minister in the presence of BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel, he said legislators have lauded efficient and able administration despite COVID and flood...

The move seems to be aimed at generating employment and accelerating economic growth which has taken a hit following the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the latest official information, a total of 5,068 people have come to Karnataka from the UK since November 25, out of which 4,238 people have come since December 9, and 810 were transit passengers traveling to other states.

Following a report in a Kannada daily, the Bengaluru South MP shot off a letter to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (city corporation) Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad saying only Muslim names were chosen for christening the roads.

The decision to impose night curfew for nine days from 11 pm to 5 am starting from Thursday was taken on Wednesday in line with the Centre's advice, amid concerns over a new COVID-19 variant spreading in the UK.

Voting began at 7 am and will go on till 5 pm in over 23,000 booths. A total of 4,377 candidates have been elected unopposed already, the officials said.

"..those who are involved in beef exports are mostly from BJP, see their names, they are all BJP supporters," the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly told reporters, listing out some names.

Noting that gambling, hookah bars, drug consumption, crime and illegal arms are all inter-connected, he said action at the ground level and strong legislations, both are being worked out to control it.

Informing the outcome of the BAC meeting to the Assembly, Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri said, the proceedings of the House on Friday, Monday and Tuesday stood cancelled.

The minister, who has already announced that the anticow slaughter bill will be introduced during the state legislature session starting from December 7, is currently on a visit to Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to study and gather information on implementatio...

Expressing concern over ministers, legislators and party leaders making public statements, he urged Kateel to rein in them immediately.

After receiving the report, Yediyurappa asked the deputy CM, who holds the Higher Education portfolio, and minister for primary and secondary education to present the report in the next Cabinet meeting.

CM BS Yediyurappa seems to have faced opposition from within his Cabinet to take the proposal forward, as he belongs to this dominant community that has always been his steady and reliable votebank.

A study by the Azim Premji University, called 'Busting Myths of Online Educations', has revealed how the new normal of online education comes with many perils.

The development has raised some eyebrows in political circles as this is the second such meeting between the two after the BJP came to power last year following the collapse of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government headed by Kumaraswamy.