Bengaluru: Total six persons including Mangaluru Pandeshwara fire brigade personnel B Shekhar were given the President's Medal for 2018-19.

New Delhi: Janata Dal (Secular) leader Danish Ali on Friday said former president Pranab Mukherjee was being awarded the Bharat Ratna as he had visited the RSS headquarters in Nagpur and had described Sangh ideologue K B Hedgewar as the "son of the soil".

Shivamogga: A total of nine deaths due to Kyatsandra Forest Disease, also known as monkey fever, has been reported in Shivamogga district since it broke out there in December 2018, the Karnataka health department said Friday.

New Delhi: Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh, affectionately called Nanaji Deshmukh, is the second leader from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ranks after Atal Bihari Vajpayee to be conferred the coveted Bharat Ratna.

AMARAVATI: Chandrababu Naidu's advice to couples to have more than two children "without any worry" has startled many

Bagalkot: "I won't contest from Davangere Lok Sabha constituency. I won't contest from any constituency", former chief minister Siddaramaiah.

New Delhi: With a plea seeking a CBI probe into the murder of rationalist M M Kalburgi, the Supreme Court on Friday termed it a "very serious case" and said that it would hear the matter in detail on February 26.

New Delhi: President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh, L&T chairman A M Naik, late journalist Kuldip Nayar, late actor Kadar Khan and cricketer Gautam Gambhir were among the 112 prominent personalities who were named on Friday for conferment of this year's Padma awards.