Bengaluru: Starting this month, Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) consumers across all categories will see an additional charge of Rs 1.15 per unit due to the recent revision in its Fuel and Power Purchase Cost Adjustment (FPPCA).

Udupi: Laxmi Hebbalkar, the Minister of Women and Child Development and Udupi district in-charge, demonstrated an act of compassion on Saturday by assisting in transporting an injured student to the hospital after an accident near Kaup Cross.

A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and a former legislator from the party on Saturday joined the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, where Assembly polls will be held at the end of the year.

Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, who is responsible for the water resources portfolio, announced on Friday that the Karnataka government will adhere to the Supreme Court's order to release water to Tamil Nadu while safeguarding the interests of Cauvery basin farmers in Karnataka.

In a move that has drawn criticism, the Karnataka government has decided to purchase 33 hybrid vehicles of the Toyota Innova Hycross model for its ministers. Each of these multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) costs approximately Rs 30 lakh, resulting in an expenditure of around Rs 10 crore for the exchequer.

 The government on Saturday notified an eight-member high-level committee to examine and make recommendations at the earliest on the issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies, municipalities and panchayats.

In a recent judgment, the Second Additional District and Sessions Court in Virajpet sentenced the editor and a reporter of the 'Cauvery Times,' a daily newspaper in Kodagu district, to one year of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on each of them. This decision came in response to their violation of the law by publishing the photograph of a minor who was raped and murdered in 2019.

The Karnataka government has established a new protocol requiring the Chief Minister's authorization for the appointment of officers in any government department. This directive comes after the conclusion of the official period for public transfers, as announced by JD Madhuchandra Tejaswi, the additional secretary of the government in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) of Karnataka.