Bengaluru: In a big push to help unemployed youth find jobs, the Karnataka Government on Wednesday said it will hold a mega two-day job fair Yuva Samruddhi Sammelana' from February 26 here, in which over 500 firms will take part and 31,000 job seekers have registered so far.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday was drawn into a debate on the rising rates of water supplied by private tankers in Bengaluru after opposition BJP MLAs raised the issue in the state assembly.

BJP MLAs trooped into the well of the Karnataka Assembly here protesting the registration of a case against 40 lawyers in Ramanagara district.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill to slash the penalty on property taxes in Bengaluru city limits by 50 percent.

Bengaluru: Strongly defending his government's guarantee schemes, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said there was nothing called "Siddanomics" and he and his government believed in "good economics", which means taxing the rich in accordance with law and spending the money on the poor for their uplift.

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.