Belagavi: There are about 25,000 "worthy monuments" in Karnataka that the state has not been able to protect and a plan will be drawn up to develop tourism with private partnership, Tourism Minister HK Patil said on Tuesday.

Belagavi: Karnataka Excise Minister R B Timmapur on Tuesday said rules for issuing liquor licences to hotels and boarding houses will be revisited, with ruling Congress legislators in the Assembly alleging that there are large-scale irregularities in the process.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has expressed his outrage over BJP MP Tejasvi Surya allegedly misrepresenting his statements regarding Martyr Captain M V Pranjal who was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing the press in the city, he stated, “ It has come to my notice that a BJP MP named Tejaswi Surya has distorted my statement by misrepresenting it, giving it a wrong angle and spreading it on social media.”

Belagavi: The Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Tuesday saw a heated exchange of words between a senior member of the ruling Congress and the Speaker over Question Hour proceedings going on for a longer duration than scheduled.

Belagavi: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday wondered what was wrong in increasing the state budget allocation for minorities.

Bengaluru: Karnataka saw a steady rise in cases related to economic offences in the last three years, a latest report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said, as the southern state lodged 7,565 FIRs for such offences in 2022.

Lokayukta sleuths on Tuesday carried out searches against 13 government officers at more than 70 location across Karnataka in connection with disproportionate assets cases.

Seven labourers from Bihar died after a gigantic processing machine collapsed, trapping them under a heap of about 100 tonnes of corn at a godown of a private food processing unit in Aliyabad industrial area here, police said on Tuesday.