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Friday, November 28, 2025
TopicKarnataka High Court

Topic: Karnataka High Court

SC seeks feedback from HC chief justices on model rules to live stream court hearings

The rules for live telecast of hearings in high courts and trial courts were finalised by a panel of four SC judges that was set up in November 2020.

SC refuses to interfere with HC order directing Centre to supply 1200MT of oxygen to Karnataka

The apex court refused to accept the Centre's contention that if every high court start passing orders for allocating oxygen, it will throw the country's supply network haywire.

Karnataka High Court stops Franklin Templeton debt funds closure without investor consent

Franklin Templeton shut six of its fixed-income and credit-risk funds run in India in April, locking in Rs 308 billion of investor monies following a liquidity crisis.

Second marriage lawful but is cruel to first wife, says Karnataka HC

A high court bench said this while hearing a case where a woman, Ramjanbi, sought dissolution of marriage after her husband married another woman, as per Sharia law.

HC says courts should act like Lord Krishna to protect women, they ‘can’t be mute spectator’

The Karnataka High Court made the observation as it rejected an appeal filed by a man who is convicted of raping a 69-year-old woman. 

Yediyurappa says state govt will recover costs of damage from culprits in Bengaluru riots

The Chief Minister said stringent action has been initiated against those responsible for the violent incidents including invoking the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

Unbecoming of Indian women to sleep after rape — HC notes while giving anticipatory bail

Karnataka HC also noted complainant’s failure to explain why she went to her office at 11 pm on the day of alleged crime & didn't object to consuming drinks as reasons for bail order.

Social media creating communal divide: HC grants bail to Muslim men arrested over viral video

19-year-old Rihan and 20-year-old Shahbaz were arrested after a video, where they could be seen picking watermelons from a drain, went viral.

SC collegium willing, this Karnataka judge could become first woman Chief Justice of India

Justice B.V. Nagarathna’s seniority and the fact that her parent HC, Karnataka, has 3 representatives in the Supreme Court could work against her.

No bail for techie who urged people to spread Covid, HC says act threat to India’s integrity 

Karnataka HC says the software engineer’s social media post is ‘likely to cause disharmony, hatred and hostility to humanity… (and) panic amongst the people’. 

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Karnataka startups feel the chill as global funding winter sets in. Fintech emerges as sole bright spot

The state raises just $2.7 billion in first nine months of 2025 compared to $4.5 billion last year, with late-stage investments hit hardest.

What’s expected from Putin’s India visit in December—Defence Secretary explains

ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.