The Latest Breaking News from Karnataka

“If not for the Shakti, the free travel for women in State Road transport corporation buses scheme, we would not have visited a faraway pilgrim centre like Kukke Subrahmanya,” said one of the 15-member women’s team from Bidar district.

Almost into the last week of June, the southwest monsoon has been scanty across Karnataka and water levels across major reservoirs are depleting. Though the last 24 hours have seen some traction with moderate to heavy rain in different parts of the State, there is a nearly 66% shortfall if…

The Karnataka government has proposed to procure rice from the Central government’s National Cooperative Consumers Federation (NCCF), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED), and Central Bhandar, and its availability of quantity and price will be known in a week’s time, said Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs K.H. Muniyappa.

An off-shore trough at mean sea level that ran along Karnataka-Kerala coasts persisted, the bulletin said here on Saturday.