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KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar and Opposition leader Siddaramaiah ahead of the all-party meeting in the wake of COVID-19, at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on March 29.

KPCC urges action against BJP leaders for communal statements

In a strong letter addressed to Praveen Sood, Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG & IGP) of Karnataka, D.K. Shivakumar, Karnataka Pra

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In Belagavi, Karnataka, an officer in a quarantine facility collects details of preachers from Indonesia who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat Markaz.

Karnataka C.M. issues stern warning against attacks on Muslims

Responding to the spate of attacks on Muslims in Karnataka, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa issued a stern warning on Monday in an interview to a Kann

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The office of the Karnataka State Board of Wakfs in Bangalore. A file picture.

Karnataka Wakf Board forbids congregations in graveyards on Shab-e-Barat

The Karnataka State Wakf Board has issued an order that forbids the congregation of Muslims in graveyards on the night of Shab-e-Barat which falls on

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A unique effort to help the needy during lockdown

A few minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on March 24 evening that the country would be locked down for 21 days starting that midnigh

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SHIVAMOGGA, KARNATAKA 19. 03. 2020.
Members of the KFD Janajagruti Okkuta submitting a memorandum to K.B. Shivakumar (fourth from left), Deputy Commissioner, in Shivamogga on March 19.

KFD, which is, like COVID-19, caused by a zoonotic virus, claims four lives in Shivamogga

In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, another zoonosis—disease transmitted to humans from animals—has already taken four lives this year in Shivamogga

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A bench-top test setup assembled at the IISc high-speed wind tunnel complex to test ideas and concepts during the ventilator prototype development phase. A test lung (seen in the bottom left of the image) is used in the experiments to roughly mimic a distressed human lung (Test lung courtesy Narayana Hrudayalaya).

IIsc team building ventilator prototype to meet COVID emergency

India currently has around 40,000 ventilators but there is a real fear that this number would be woefully inadequate if there is a surge in the number

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At the 24 X 7 coronavirus Command and Control Room opened at the head office of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike in Bengaluru on March 23.

Kannada newspaper accuses Muslims of spreading coronavirus

In a shocking case of irresponsible journalism, a leading Kannada newspaper,

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Volunteers distributing food to homeless people in Bengaluru on March 29.

In Karnataka, writers, activists write to C.M. seeking steps to prevent starvation among poor

More than 30 prominent writers and activists in Karnataka, including Ramachandra Guha and Devanur Mahadeva, have in a letter to Chief Minister B.S. Ye

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Workers leaving for their hometowns from Bengaluru after the lockdown was announced on March 24.

Report highlights workers’ suffering during lockdown

A report published by Maraa, a Bengaluru-based media and arts collective that runs a newspaper called

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Syed Ahmed Esar.

Syed Ahmed Esar: Rumi’s translator

With the publication of his Urdu translation of Rumi’s Masnavi, 97-year-old poet and translator Syed Ahmed Esar feels that he has accomplished everyth

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Patil Puttappa.

Patil Puttappa, veteran journalist and “conscience keeper” of Kannada culture, no more

Veteran journalist, freedom fighter and Kannada activist Patil Puttappa passed away in Bengaluru on March 16 at the age of 99. He was moved recently t

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Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa presenting the Budget in the Karnataka Assembly on March 5.

Demand to allocate funds, restore schemes for minorities’ welfare in Karnataka

The budgetary allocation for the Minority Welfare, Haj and Wakf Department in Karnataka has been reduced by almost 37 per cent in the State budget pre

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