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

State govt. to urge Centre to set up AIIMS in Kalyana Karnataka region, especially Kalaburagi

State govt. to urge Centre to set up AIIMS in Kalyana Karnataka region, especially Kalaburagi

Minister Sharan Prakash Patil says that the AIIMS can start functioning in the ESIC Hospital which is spread over around 50 acres of land in Kalaburagi. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil has said that the State government will urge the Union government to establish the All India Institute of … Read more

Establishment of Dharwad and Kalaburagi Benches created awareness on legal rights of North Karnataka residents: HC

Establishment of Dharwad and Kalaburagi Benches created awareness on legal rights of North Karnataka residents: HC

The establishment of two Benches of the High Court of Karnataka at Dharwad and Kalaburagi has created awareness of legal rights amongst the people of North Karnataka and led to an increase in number of both civil and criminal cases instituted every year since establishment of the two Benches in 2008, the court said. “The … Read more

BJP MLA joins farmers’ protest demanding release of TLBC water

BJP MLA joins farmers’ protest demanding release of TLBC water

Dr. Shivaraj Patil, MLA for Raichur, in the farmers’ protest at Saath Mile Cross near Raichur on Saturday demanding Tungabhadra waters to fields at tail-end of Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal. | Photo Credit: Santosh Sagar BJP MLA Shivaraj Patil and hundreds of farmers took to the streets on Saturday demanding the Irrigation Department release water … Read more

Rock Python rescued in Kalaburagi

Rock Python rescued in Kalaburagi

Snake rescuer Prashant Police Patil saved an Indian Rock Python from Buddha Vihar temple on the outskirts of Kalaburagi, on Thursday night. Displaying the slithering reptile, Prashant Patil said that the non-venomous snake measured around 10 foot in length and weighed nearly 14 kg. The reptile was spotted in the garden near the front gate … Read more

Women lock down GP office, demanding public toilets in Kalaburagi

Women lock down GP office, demanding public toilets in Kalaburagi

Demanding construction of public toilets, scores of women from Mashal village in Afzalpur taluk staged a protest by hanging the locks of the gram panchayat office on Thursday. The residents of Ram Nagar locality in Mashal village, who have made several complaints about the lack of sanitation facilities in the village, took out a protest … Read more