The Karnataka government on Friday launched the Congress party's fifth 'guarantee' offering unemployment monthly stipend of Rs 3,000 to graduates and Rs 1,500 to diploma holders.

Seven men who allegedly barged into a hotel room and attacked an interfaith couple during their stay in this district have been charged with gangrape after the victim complained that she was sexually assaulted by them, police said on Friday.

Bengaluru: Amid rising incidents of hooliganism under the tag of religion in the state, Karnataka Home Minister Dr. G Parameshwara stated on Thursday that stringent action would be taken against those involved in religious hooliganism. “Strict instructions have been given to the officials of the department to take stringent legal action and the offenders won't be let go easily,” said Parameshwara addressing the press at his Sadashivnagar residence.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, who also holds the Bengaluru City Development portfolio on Thursday during the ‘Bagilige bantu sarakara, sevege irali sahakara’ (Government at your doorsteps, let your cooperation be there for the service) event announced supply of Cauvery drinking water in the upcoming three to four months to the people residing in the city’s southern region, who are facing a lack in drinking water supply. “Discussions will be held with the officials in this regard,” He further mentioned.

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has struck down a provision in the Indian Military Nursing Services Ordinance, 1943 which provided 100 per cent reservation for women in the cadre of 'nursing officers'.

Haveri (Karnataka), Jan 11: In a case of moral policing, a gang of six men allegedly barged into a hotel room and assaulted an interfaith couple during their stay in Hanagal Taluk of Haveri district, following which two of them have been arrested, police said on Thursday.

Chikkaballapura (K'taka): A class 9 student of a government residential school was eight months pregnant when she gave birth to a baby boy at a hospital here, police said on Thursday, following which a case of rape under the IPC and POCSO has been registered.

Belagavi (Karnataka): Seven men were arrested and two minors apprehended in a case of moral policing in which they allegedly assaulted two cousins whom they mistook to be an interfaith couple, in Belagavi, police said on Thursday.