Mysuru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday said the much-awaited Mekedatu balancing reservoir across the Cauvery river would be completed during the present term of the Congress government.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday demanded that Bharat Ratna should be conferred on former Chief Minister late D Devaraj Urs who was the voice of the downtrodden communities in the state.

Bengaluru: A class 7 student dies by suicide by jumping from the balcony of her 29th floor flat on Begur Road in southeast Bengaluru's Hulimavu area, police said on Wednesday.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday welcomed the decision to confer the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna on late socialist leader Karpoori Thakur and said he was considered as the "Devaraj Urs of Bihar".

Senior BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday predicted surprising results from South India in favour of BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Bommai claimed that there is a 'Modi wave' in the country as the whole country was eager to see Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister again.

Stating that he considered himself a devotee of the Indian Constitution and the citizens and, therefore, had no habit of visiting temples, Karnataka IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge said that he paid such visits only if invited and to learn the customs observed in temples

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said he would direct the concerned officials to withdraw the recovery notice issued by a Tahsildar to priest and Kannada writer Hiremagalur Kannan.

 Since January 21, when he went missing -- he left his coaching centre in Whitefield in Bengaluru and never returned home -- 12-year-old Parinav, a student of Deens Academy, Gunjur Branch, had always been one step ahead of the police.