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The State Election Commission on Monday announced elections to 5,762 of Karnataka’s 6,004 gram panchayats. Polling will be held on December 22 and 27, and results will be declared on Dec 30.Some 162 gram panchayats will not go to the polls since their term ends only on Dec 20. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

(This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on December 01, 2020) from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Twenty-three people from five Christian families in Haliyal taluk converted to Hinduism in the presence of BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde, in an event described by saffron outfits as “ghar wapsi” (homecoming) and voluntary action. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Vasanthapura, Hoodi, Horamavu, Kadugodi Hemmigepura, Byatarayanapura and Bellandur wards on the outskirts of Bengaluru are reporting more Covid-19 cases now. These seven wards have been reporting at least 10 positive cases daily for the past 10 days, according to BBMP data. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Karnataka’s Covid-19 trajectory witnessed a major milestone on Monday when the day’s fresh cases dipped below the 1,000 mark for the first time in five months. The state reported 998 new cases on the day. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Karnataka reported less than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases and 13 related fatalities on Monday, taking the total number of infections to 8,84,897 and the toll to 11,778, the health department said. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on November 30, 2020 from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

The state election commission on Monday announced a two-phase poll to over 5,762 gram panchayats across 30 districts in Karnataka. Elections will be held on December 22 and 27, and the results will be announced on December 30. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Investigation into an international drug racket busted by Bengaluru police earlier this month has revealed that the racketeers had sent a consignment of 310 LSD strips to a city hospital address, where one of the employees was supposed to have received them and passed on to local peddlers. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

A woman, accused of opening fire at her husband thrice in an alleged attempt to kill him inside their SUV in May 2017, said two men who had taken her four-wheeler on rent cheated her by selling it. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

A year after the government launched a common emergency number ‘112’, the police department has decided to hire manpower from private firms to operate the helpline’s command centre or Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) in Bengaluru. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Two men and a woman, who were running a company that took properties on rent and leased them to generate capital for their construction project, landed in custody after their business ran into trouble in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

(This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on November 30, 2020) from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

With the panchayat election bugle set to be sounded soon, 33 gram panchayats across the state have been upgraded into or made part of an urban local body (ULB) in the past two months, and 100 more will get the tag in the next two years. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

While Covid-19 gaining a fatal edge in senior citizens was anticipated, those in the youngest (60-69) and the oldest (centenarians) age brackets among the infected elders have reported the lowest case fatality rates (CFR) in Karnataka. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Pro-Kannada organisations have expressed reservations over renewed calls to split Belagavi into three districts, saying this is not the right time for such a move as the border dispute with Maharashtra has not been resolved. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Two days after a pro-terror graffiti was spotted in Mangaluru, a second wall writing surfaced in the city on Sunday. Police removed the graffiti painted on the wall of an old police outpost on the city court premises. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Karnataka on Sunday reported a decline in the number of new Covid-19 cases at 1,291, and 15 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 8,83,899 and the toll to 11,765, the health department said. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on November 29, 2020 from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday predicted a 'generally cloudy' sky in Bengaluru, and 'light rain with no thundershower' in some areas here in the next 24 hours. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Come December 1, the participation limit in marriages or similar gatherings can be limited from 200 to 100 by district authorities if there is a surge in Covid cases. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Chennammanakere Achukattu police on Saturday arrested four persons, including a woman, and recovered 400 leopard nails, six tiger nails, a blackbuck and jackal skin each, seven pangolin nails, two jungle cat paws and three sloth bear claws from them. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

(This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on November 29, 2020) from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

A day after chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s political secretary and grandnephew NR Santosh, 31, attempted suicide, Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said the government is ready to probe the incident if the opposition Congress furnishes evidence of its charges. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

A 25-year-old Nigerian who allegedly cheated a Bengaluru woman of Rs 25 lakh after befriending her on a matrimonial site has been arrested from Delhi. Probe has revealed he and his associates siphoned off crores of rupees by creating fake accounts. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Senior BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal and opposition leader Siddaramaiah’s recent statements that chief minister BS Yediyurappa is on his way out evoked instant reactions from some ministers and party office-bearers in Karnataka, but the brass has maintained a studied silence on the from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

The first Maasika Janasamparka Divasa (Monthly Public Contact Day) organised by the city police on Saturday received tremendous response with citizens overcoming pandemic fears and visiting police stations to highlight various problems faced by them. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

The BJP's Karnataka unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Saturday reaffirmed that there has been no talks in any of the party forums on leadership change in the state, as speculation about the high command mulling over replacing chief minister B S Yediyurappa refuses to die down. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Battle for gram panchayat polls is heating up. Close on the heels of the BJP state leadership kickstarting its gram swarajya convention in this temple town on Friday, Congress has roped its trouble-shooter and KPCC chief D K Shivakumar to take the battle to the rival Saffron camp on Sunday. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Karnataka has reported 1,522 new cases of Covid-19 and 12 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 8,82,608 and the death toll to 11,750, the health department said on Saturday. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

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This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on November 28, 2020 from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Even as chief minister BS Yediyurappa has deferred a decision on including Veerashaiva-Lingayats in the OBC list of the Central government, BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel kept mum on the issue saying that the issue has been resolved. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Chief minister BS Yediyurappa had called a meeting of MPs from Karnataka on Friday, but many couldn’t attend it because the invite was reportedly a bit last minute. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

A 32-year-old anganwadi worker who went missing on Tuesday was found dead in a hotel room in Kalasipalya on Friday morning. Police have booked a case of murder against the woman’s neighbour based on her husband’s complaint. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Two men and a woman robbed a goldsmith of diamond-studded bangles worth Rs 10 lakh at gate number 5 of Manyata Tech Park last week.Police registered a case against Aisha, Senthil, Imran and others based on a complaint filed by N Balaji, 39. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Around 25 city-based cadets of Hindustan Scouts and Guides underwent a short-term course in commando training at the Centre for Counter Terrorism in Kudlu, near Parappana Agrahara. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

N R Santosh, the political secretary to chief minister BS Yediyurappa, is said to have attempted suicide at his Dollars Colony residence in Bengaluru on Friday. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

The Karnataka cabinet on Friday deferred a decision on recommending the inclusion of Veerashaiva-Lingayat community in the Centre’s list of Other Backward Classes (OBC) after the BJP’s not-so-subtle message that the issue should be discussed in the party for a first to study its feasibility. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

(This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on November 28, 2020) from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

The state’s Covid-19 management team is at its wit’s end as primary contacts of patients infected over the past few weeks across several districts have not been traced and screened. For instance, in Ballari, 65% of those found positive between November 17 and 23 have no primary contacts. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Despite some protests against the plan to split Ballari district, BS Yediyurappa’s cabinet on Friday approved the borders of the new Vijayanagara district. Hospet will be the capital of Karnataka’s 31st district, which will comprise six taluks carved out of Ballari. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

The Karnataka state cabinet on Friday formally approved the borders for the newly carved out Vijayanagara district from the existing Ballary district. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Karnataka reported 1,526 new cases of Covid-19 and 12 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 8,81,086 and the toll to 11,738 on Friday, the health department said. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on November 27, 2020 from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa on Friday deferred at a last minute a proposal to recommend inclusion of the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community under OBC list following lack of consensus in his cabinet and intervention of the BJP central leadership, sources said. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Dakshina Kannada district has witnessed a steady decline in HIV/AIDS cases since the last several years. District health and family welfare officer Dr Ramachandra Bairy said that awareness programmes undertaken by the department helped in bringing down the number of cases in the district. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

Work on the airport halt station is over and so is electrification of Byappanahalli-Hosur line. Yet passengers are waiting to make use of these facilities. Reason: South Western Railway (SWR) is still to operate suburban services. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

The Mangaluru City Police have launched an investigation after wall graffiti on pro-terror organisations have come up at an apartment wall near Kadri, on Friday morning. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India

BBMP commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad has ordered his officials to conduct a detailed re-survey of manual scavengers in the city and neighbouring areas. from Bangalore News: Latest Bangalore News Headlines & Live News Updates from Bangalore - Times of India