“As per government norms, if there is cost escalation beyond 20 per cent, an administrative approval is needed, but this was not done in the case of the new high court building. Similarly, the A...

Karnataka governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot on Tuesday gave his assent to the contentious anti-conversion ordinance, a day after a delegation of Christian bishops met him and appealed against doing so. T...

Class X students in BJP-ruled Karnataka government’s school board will from the upcoming academic session study content related to RSS founder and Hindu Rashtra proponent Keshav Baliram Hedgewar...

Shares of the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) were clobbered on listing on Tuesday. The blow left an army of newbie investors from the country’s small towns and cities, who had bee...

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The University Grants Commission notified guidelines empowering students in higher education to pursue two academic programmes simultaneously. They can now study for two degrees/diplomas concurrently ...

Abortion has for long been one of the most bitterly-contested ethical and political questions. Recently, a medical practitioner has moved the Supreme Court to further finetune the provisions of the Me...

Kashmir Valley’s bloodstained landscape was spattered in red, once again, last week when a government employee was shot dead by terrorists at his office. The killing of the Kashmiri Pandit has s...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday sent out multiple messages on several aspects to civil and police administrations and to her colleagues in the Trinamul Congress. Although the chief minister sent the messa...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked the departments that execute development projects in the state — collectively called works departments — to set up a “crisis management fund” a...