Food and Civil Supplies Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan said that based on the district administration report, the state government would construct the houses for the 1,174 families which lost their houses in the natural disaster.

The Cabinet on Thursday decided to release Rs 178 crore package for the coconut growers whose coconut plantations have become unproductive due to continuous drought in the state.

Primary and Secondary Education Minister N. Mahesh clarified that the BSP would not make alliance with any political party in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.

The skeleton of Kantappa Poojary (85) who was missing for the last 60 days, was found on the Bhadra River bank here on Thursday.

Following cyclone in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, South interior parts of the state have cloudy weather with moderate rainfall, said Karnataka Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre Director Dr. G.S. Srinivas Reddy.

Welcoming the central government’s decision to cut Rs 2.50 cess on petrol and diesel, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said that at least now, the central government has learnt a lesson.

Finland Ambassador to India, Nina Vaskunlahti, called on Chief Minister H.D Kumaraswamy here on Thursday and discussed the collaboration and partnership between Karnataka and Finland.

Seeking divine intervention in trying times is not unusual and cracking an examination could be one of those.

However, the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Karnataka has not taken kindly to students making godly pleadings on answer sheets.