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Topic: Karnataka

Ex-IPS officers write to Siddaramaiah, say Bengaluru police chief & cops ‘made fall guys’ for stampede

The 30 retired IPS officers say suspended cops, including Commissioner Dayananda, are being victimised while those who contributed to Chinnaswamy stampede were let off the hook.

Bengaluru stampede: 4 held after suo motu FIR, senior police officers suspended as blame game continues

Siddaramiah govt holds police & organisers responsible for mishap, while police’s FIR books RCB, event firm & state cricket body for culpable homicide.

Bengaluru stampede: Dy CM Shivakumar apologises, Siddaramaiah promises compensation to kin of deceased

The chief minister addressed a press conference and said the government would also provide free treatment to the injured.

Karnataka Deputy CM Shivakumar’s big-ticket projects facing heat. Hemavathi Canal latest to draw fire

Several farmers, BJP & JD(S) members, and religious seers have staged protests demanding the project be scrapped. Shivakumar, however, says the uproar is ‘politically motivated’.

Once booked for Babri play, now in dock for inflammatory speech—who is RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat

Bhat is a prominent Hindutva activist who runs a chain of educational institutions & heads other organisations, largely based in Dakshina Kannada district.

‘Love for Karnataka is true,’ Kamal Haasan refuses to apologise for controversial Kannada comments

He claimed that alleged warning by pro-Kannada groups threatening to boycott his film if he did not apologise for his remark, was not new and that he has been threatened in the past.

3 killed as heavy rain, landslides create havoc in coastal Karnataka

A woman and her child were pulled from the debris and hospitalised in critical condition. However, another child of the woman was found dead.

A chain of retaliatory killings & a political blame game keep coastal Karnataka on boil

Karnataka govt’s ‘anti-communal force’ is yet to become operational, even as tensions in communally sensitive coastal regions remain dangerously close to spiraling out of control.

70-year-old man who tested positive for Covid-19 dies in Karnataka hospital

The elderly patient, a resident of Benakanahalli village in Belagavi, was already suffering from age-related diseases when he was brought into the hospital, where he tested positive.

BJP expels MLAs Somashekar, Hebbar but ‘Bombay Boys’ continue to stir trouble for Karnataka unit

Both Somashekar & Hebbar were among 17 MLAs whose defection led to fall of Kumaraswamy-led coalition govt. BJP later accommodated both as ministers in Yediyurappa, Bommai govts.

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What is Skinimalism? It isn’t laziness, but skincare for those who want results without clutter

Think of skinimalism as the Marie Kondo of beauty trends: if a product doesn’t spark joy, or at least actually do something for your skin, it’s time to bid it a grateful goodbye.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.