Grand public meeting to follow multiple events to celebrate Basava Jayanti in Kalaburagi on April 29

Grand public meeting to follow multiple events to celebrate Basava Jayanti in Kalaburagi on April 29

Afzalpur MLA M.Y. Patil, along with Lingayat leaders, addressing a media conference at the Dasoha Mahamane of Sharana Basaveshwara Samsthan in Kalaburagi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI In a press conference held at the Dasoha Mahamane of Sharana Basaveshwara Samsthana in Kalaburagi on Sunday (April 13, 2025), M.Y. Patil, MLA for Afzalpur and … Read more

Lokayukta conducts raids in six districts across Karnataka

Lokayukta conducts raids in six districts across Karnataka

The Lokayukta officials on Tuesday carried out a series of raids against ten government officials in six districts across the State. The officials were found to have disproportionate assets totally worth over ₹48.5 crore to their known source of income. After gathering information based on the complaints, several teams conducted raids in Bengaluru, Bengaluru Rural … Read more

Medical malpractice destroys profession’s nobility, says BLDE Vice-Chancellor

Medical malpractice destroys profession’s nobility, says BLDE Vice-Chancellor

Dental graduates of S. Nijalingappa Institute of Dental Sciences and Research at the graduation ceremony in Kalaburagi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI Terming medicine as a noble profession, R.S. Mudhol, Vice-Chancellor of BLDE (deemed-to-be-university), said that doctors and hospitals deviating from their noble path would lead to the destruction of the profession’s dignity. … Read more

Three Hyderabad-based pilgrims of a family, driver killed in road accident near Kalaburagi

Three Hyderabad-based pilgrims of a family, driver killed in road accident near Kalaburagi

Police personnel investigate a collision between a car and a pickup truck in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka on Saturday (November 9, 2024). At least four people were killed in the accident, according to officials. | Photo Credit: PTI Three Hyderabad-based pilgrims of a family and a driver were killed in a road accident near Kalaburagi. A … Read more

Tungabhadra crest gates will be replaced in a year after consulting riparian States, says D.K. Shivakumar

Tungabhadra crest gates will be replaced in a year after consulting riparian States, says D.K. Shivakumar

Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar speaking at a public meeting at Munirabad in Koppal district on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who also holds the Department of Water Resources portfolio, has said that all 33 crest gates at the Tungabhadra reservoir will be replaced within a year. Addressing a … Read more

Boy killed in lighting strike as rains lash KK region (page 1)

Boy killed in lighting strike as rains lash KK region (page 1)

Roads were flooded after the rains in Kalaburagi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI Roads were flooded after the rains in Kalaburagi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI A 10-year-old boy was killed in a lighting strike at Narona village in Aland taluk of Kalaburagi district on Saturday, as the Kalyana Karnataka region … Read more

Calm in Kalaburagi after tension over desecration of Ambedkar statue

Calm in Kalaburagi after tension over desecration of Ambedkar statue

People staging a protest on Tuesday condemning the desecration of an Ambedkar statue at Lumbini Gardens in Kotnoor (D) on the outskirts of Kalaburagi. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI Spontaneous protests hit Kalaburagi city on Tuesday as the news of defilement of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s statue spread quickly early in the morning and continued through … Read more

Karnataka Health Department launches doorstep eye care programme in Chickballapur district

Karnataka Health Department launches doorstep eye care programme in Chickballapur district

The State Health Department, in collaboration with the National Program for Control of Blindness, on Friday launched a transformative initiative – Asha Kirana – Eye Care at Your Doorstep — in Chickballapur district. This programme will be extended to cover Kalaburagi, Haveri, and Chamarajanagar districts from September 4. According to an official press release, the initiative … Read more

Central University to host national conference on Mitakshara school of thought in Kalaburagi on Saturday

Central University to host national conference on Mitakshara school of thought in Kalaburagi on Saturday

Dean, School of Legal Jurisprudence Studies at Central University of Karnataka (CUK), Basavaraj Kubakaddi has said that a one-day national conference on Mitakshara will be organised at the university here on Saturday. In a media release here on Tuesday, he said that Bharatiya Jurisprudence has been given less emphasis in the Indian legal system as … Read more

Trainer aircraft makes emergency landing on agriculture field in Kalaburagi

Trainer aircraft makes emergency landing on agriculture field in Kalaburagi

A trainer aircraft operated by Redbird Flight Training Academy, after it made an emergency landing on an agricultural field near Pete Sirur village in Chittapur taluk of Kalaburagi district on June 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A trainer aircraft operated by Redbird Flight Training Academy made an emergency landing on an agricultural field … Read more