New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday asked the Central government to release Rs 18,171 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for Karnataka reeling under the impact of severe drought.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday hit out at the opposition BJP questioning the contribution of the party in taking up development works in Bengaluru when its government was in power for four years in the state.

Belagavi: The Karnataka government moved three bills, including one that seeks to replace an ordinance to scrap the mandatory one-year service in rural areas for students graduating from medical colleges in the state, in the assembly on Tuesday.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (KSAT) has upheld the suspension of three officers in connection with the blaze at a firecracker shop and godown at Attibele that claimed 17 lives in October.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday suspended video conferencing facilities in the principal bench in Bengaluru and the circuit benches at Dharwad and Kalaburagi and also live streaming of proceedings on YouTube following what it called "mischief" and "unprecedented situation".

Belagavi: There are about 25,000 "worthy monuments" in Karnataka that the state has not been able to protect and a plan will be drawn up to develop tourism with private partnership, Tourism Minister HK Patil said on Tuesday.

Belagavi: Karnataka Excise Minister R B Timmapur on Tuesday said rules for issuing liquor licences to hotels and boarding houses will be revisited, with ruling Congress legislators in the Assembly alleging that there are large-scale irregularities in the process.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has expressed his outrage over BJP MP Tejasvi Surya allegedly misrepresenting his statements regarding Martyr Captain M V Pranjal who was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing the press in the city, he stated, “ It has come to my notice that a BJP MP named Tejaswi Surya has distorted my statement by misrepresenting it, giving it a wrong angle and spreading it on social media.”