The Latest Breaking News from Karnataka

BENGALURU: Gujarat, Karnataka and Meghalaya were the ‘best performers’ in developing startup ecosystems for entrepreneurs last year, according to the latest ranking by the Centre’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and JK were in the next category of ‘top performers’.

BELAGAVI: After Hubballi, now Belagavi has got Krishi Udan scheme 2.0. Belagavi is among the five airports included in the scheme by the Central government. There are now 58 airports under the scheme.

BENGALURU: Acknowledging the shortage of learning resources in its schools, Samagra Shikshana Karnataka issued a circular last week asking schools to use funds from donors or CSR initiatives to get worksheets for the bridge programme photocopied for distribution among children.

BENGALURU: Senior IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police (Internal Security Division) Amrit Paul was arrested here on Monday for his alleged role in the police sub-inspector (PSI) recruitment scam. It's the first time in the state in recent times that such a high-ranking police officer has been arrested.

Bengaluru

They were on a strike for four days demanding that the Karnataka government regularise the services of pourakarmikas who are contractual workers 

Bengaluru

BENGALURU: The pourakarmikas (civic workers) — who had been sitting on indefinite dharna — have withdrawn their protest after Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday instructed the municipal administration department to commence the process of granting permanent employment status to the civic workers in three months.

BENGALURU: Investigations in the police sub-inspector (PSI) recruitment scam in Karnataka took a serious turn with the arrest of an IPS officer of the rank of additional director general of police in Bengaluru on Monday.