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H.S. Doreswamy.

Freedom fighter H.S. Doreswamy passes away

Harohalli Srinivasaiah Doreswamy, the centenarian and freedom fighter who was known as the keeper of Karnataka’s conscience, passed away of cardiac ar

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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike is planning to provide ‘oxybuses’ for those who are in critical need of oxygen.

Grim situation in Karnataka with second wave of COVID-19 pandemic

Bengaluru and several districts reel under the rising caseload and casualties even as a young MP in a brash act attempts to communalise a so-called be

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Girish Karnad’s memoirs now available in an English translation

The English translation of Girish Karnad’s memoirs, titled

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Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa.

Karnataka announces a COVID-19 relief package for farmers and workers in the unorganised sector, opposition leaders call it ‘inadequate’

Senior members of the opposition in Karnataka, including D.K. Shivakumar, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president, and former Chief Minister H.

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Dr K. Sudhakar, Health Minister of Karnataka.

Black fungus, a post-COVID-19 infection, claims four lives in Bengaluru

Four persons have died while 97 people have fallen victim to the dreaded “black fungus”, an infection caused by a group of fungi, that is on the rise

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Siddaramaiah (right) during a visit to the district hospital in Chamarajanagar, Mysuru, on May 4. D.K. Shivakumar, KPCC president, is to his right.

Siddaramaiah questions Karnataka government’s COVID-19 statistics on deaths, testing and recoveries

Siddaramaiah, senior Indian National Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister, in a letter to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said the peop

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At a new crematorium built for COVID-19 in Bengaluru on April 28. Crematoria in the city are overwhelmed by the number of bodies brought for cremation.

Karnataka: Pandemic situation out of control

Karnataka faces a severe challenge with shortage of hospital beds and vaccines as the infection spreads and cases surge.

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Tejasvi Surya (centre) at BBMP’s South Zone War Room along with three other MLAs on May 4.

Tejasvi Surya, BJP MP of Bengaluru South, alleges big scam in the allotment of COVID-19 beds, targets Muslim workers in BBMP’s COVID War Room

In a widely shared video that was originally made available on the Facebook page of Tejasvi Surya yesterday, the young BJP MP of Bengaluru South along

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Returning officer K. Harish kumar (third from left) hands over the victory certificate to Mangala Suresh Angadi (to his left) of the BJP on April 2.

BJP wins the byelection to Belagavi Lok Sabha Constituency in a nail-biter of a finish

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At an Indira Canteen in Bengaluru on April 4, 2020, during the nationwide lockdown.

Karnataka's Indira canteens starved of funds

Karnataka’s Indira Canteens, which offer subsidised meals to the urban poor, are staring at closure owing to the lack of budgetary allocations by the

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A fleet of ambulances carrying bodies of COVID-19 victims waiting at a crematorium at Medi Agrahara in Yelahanka, Bengaluru, on April 14.

Rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru

Bengaluru has more than 65 per cent of all active cases recorded in Karnataka in a virulent second wave where the test positivity rate in the State is

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KARNATAKA MYSURU 10/04/21 Syed Ishaq standing in front of his burnt library.

Mysore University professor launches campaign to collect books for a public library that burnt down

On April 9, miscreants burnt an informally set up public library that was being managed by 62-year-old Syed Isaaq in the Rajiv Nagar area of Mysuru. I

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