Bengaluru: Congress party’s Puttanna has won the Bengaluru Teachers constituency by-polls for the legislative council by defeating the BJP-JD(S) alliance candidate A.P Ranganath by a margin of more than 1,506 votes.

In a recent statement, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah highlighted the significant investment of ₹77,000 crore in Karnataka within just 9 months of his government coming to power as evidence of the state's smooth law and order situation.

A special court here has said 27 kg of gold and diamond jewelry - part of the material evidence in the disproportionate assets case against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister late J Jayalalithaa and others - would be handed over to the neighbouring state's government on March 6 and 7, paving the way for unlocking value of the assets to mobilise the Rs 100 crore fine imposed on her. While 20 kg could be sold or auctioned, the remaining was exempted by the Court on Monday considering the fact that the late Jayalalithaa inherited them from her mother.

The BJP on Monday accused the Karnataka government of "illegally allocating" Rs 15 lakh to the kin of a Kerala man who was killed by a tuskless elephant that was captured in Karnataka but later strayed into Wayanad in the neighbouring state.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has made snakebite a notifiable disease in the state across all health facilities on the Integrated Health Information Platform, an official order released on Monday said.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Higher Education Minister Dr. MC Sudhakar have revealed plans to take action to fill up 1,242 vacant positions of assistant professors of various subjects in the government first-grade colleges under the Collegiate Education Department through exams conducted by the Karnataka Examination Authority. He was responding to a query by MLA Chidanand M. Gowda during the question hour of the assembly session on Monday.

Mysuru: A man, along with his first wife and her children allegedly killed his second wife for property here at Naidu Nagar.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Housing and Minorities Welfare Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan on Monday wondered why development funds for minorities should be sanctioned in a BJP MLA’s constituency who spoke ill of Muslims.