Bengaluru: Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday remarked that the state has incurred an estimated loss of Rs. 32 thousand crores due to heavy rains and floods recently in various parts of the state.

Bengaluru: State government on Tuesday issued transfer orders of senior IAS officer Akram Pasha along with three other IAS officers of the state.

Bengaluru: Indira Canteens, the pet project of the previous Congress government to provide highly subsidised food to the urban poor, is on the verge of closure as neither the state government nor the Bengaluru corporation (BBMP) have made any budgetary allocations.

Huballi: Former Karnataka CM and cabinet minister Jagadish Shettar on Tuesday said that the position of Deputy CM is not a constitutional position and is only created for the sake of respect. The Large and Medium Industries Ministers also added that he would not have accepted the post had it been offered to him.

Bengaluru: The PRS Legislative Research, which is an independent, not – for – profit institution looking into Legislative and Policies issues, has arranged a two and half a day comprehensive National Workshop for Karnataka Legislators on Education Challenges and Opportunities at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy from August 28 to 31 in New Delhi.

Bengaluru: The one-month-old B S Yediyurappa government has come under attack from senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah for making Laxman Savadi, who was caught on camera watching porn on his mobile phone during Assembly proceedings in 2012, as deputy Chief Minister.

Bengaluru: As three-time Lok Sabha member Nalin Kumar Kateel took charge as the new Karnataka BJP president, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday asked party workers to strengthen the outfit, even as he set the target of over 150 seats in the next assembly polls.

Hyderabad: A former CBI special judge has appeared in a court here as a witness in connection with a "cash-for-bail" case involving mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy and claimed that an offer of bribe to the tune of Rs 40 crore was made to him to grant bail to the former Karnataka minister in 2012.