Bengaluru: Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday rubbished reports that claimed the BJP government in the state was planning to drop implementing National Register of Citizens (NRC). Bommai added that there was no question of dropping the NRC.

New Delhi: Shares of IT services firm Infosys on Tuesday plummeted nearly 17 per cent, wiping Rs 53,451 crore from its market valuation, on concerns over a whistleblower complaint which alleged that two top executives of the company were indulging in unethical practices to increase short-term revenue and profits.

New Delhi: Days after quitting the Congress and his Rajya Sabha membership, Karnataka leader K C Ramamurthy joined the BJP on Tuesday, praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership.

Mangaluru/Udupi: Banking services in Dakshina Kannada district were hit as a majority of employees went on strike on Tuesday as part of the nationwide stir called by various employees unions to protest mergers of banks.

New Delhi: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, who met Narendra Modi here on Tuesday, said the prime minister joked about the media trying to bring out "anti-Modi" remarks from him.

Mangaluru: Local Police has arrested nine people in connection with the recent attack on a auto-rickshaw driver near Neermarga. The police team investigating the matter made the arrests on Tuesday afternoon.

Bengaluru: With exit polls forecasting a facile victory for the BJP in Maharashtra and Haryana and a rout for its rivals, led by the Congress, former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday expressed suspicion about the credibility of the Electronic Voting Machines.

New Delhi: With registration of over three lakh FIRs, Uttar Pradesh topped the crime list in the country, followed by Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Delhi, according to the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2017.