A Goa court on Thursday extended by four days the police remand of Ajay Gupta, co-owner of Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, where a devastating fire on December 6 killed 25 persons.
Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Thursday said the state is ending up as losers for following financial discipline.
Home Minister Dr. G. Parameshwara on Thursday said that the Finance Department has approved the recruitment of 3,600 vacant posts in the State Police Department and that the process of issuing the recruitment notification is underway.
Three people were arrested on Thursday for their alleged involvement in the sale of blood outside the government hospital in Satna where six children have been found to have contracted HIV during transfusion, officials said.
A four-year-old girl was killed and three others injured on Thursday after hollow bricks from the fourth floor of an under-construction building fell onto a cement sheet shed in the city, police said.
India's footballing future was brought up in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday by Congress member Jose K Mani as he cited tiny Dutch-Caribbean island Curacao's World Cup qualification to ask Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya about the long-term plan for the game that is on a downward spiral.
Karnataka has a shortage of 45,590 teachers against the sanctioned post of 1,78,935 for 41,088 government primary schools, state School Education and Literacy Minister Madhu Bangarappa said on Thursday.
The Commission for Air Quality Management has directed civic bodies and state agencies across the National Capital Region to urgently strengthen municipal solid waste management, flagging persistent open burning of waste, delays in clearing legacy dumps and gaps in enforcement.
Circumstantial evidence can be used to convict an accused in a criminal case if it is of such a nature that is "consistent only with his guilt", the Supreme Court said on Thursday.
A man allegedly killed his wife and later died by suicide here, police said on Thursday.
