Karnataka
Capital: Bengaluru
Breaking in Karnataka
Bomb threat emails hit Mumbai and Pune civic offices, and the searches find nothing
An email naming Mumbai's mayor office, a bank, a court, Amitabh Bachchan's Jalsa bungalow, Mahalaxmi Racecourse and the airport set off searches on Thursday morning. Pune Municipal Corporation received its own threat soon after. Nothing suspicious was found.
Arrogance of power: Rohit Pawar takes on Fadnavis as the NCP merger formula takes shape
Rohit Pawar accused Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of "arrogance" and of running a politics of blackmail over the NCP merger question. In the party, the formula under discussion gives Sharad Pawar the president post and Sunetra Pawar the working president post.
No eye on Gokul: Fadnavis says the amendment only unties a legal knot
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis defended amending the cooperative societies law, saying the government needed to end a statutory deadlock over the Gokul dairy chairmanship. Congress leader Satej Patil is going ahead with a November 9 protest, calling the move a trampling of the farmers' mandate.
Cancer bills fall from Monday: 137 drugs cut, some by 96%, ₹3,502 crore saved a year
Revised prices for 137 anti-cancer drugs take effect on Monday after the NPPA capped trade margins at 30% of the maximum retail price. Seventy-six companies have cut prices on 1,225 formulations, with 600 brands down more than half and the steepest cut at 96.45%. Estimated annual savings: ₹3,502.31 crore.
Ten thousand flagged land deals later, Telangana CID picks up four over the Dharani portal
Telangana's CID has searched the homes and offices of suspects in the alleged Dharani land records scandal and arrested at least four people, including a Bhu Bharati portal operator. The case turns on three acres in Kollur village, mutated in another man's name.
BREAKINGRs 81.5 crore in two days, and Netflix already has the papers: Suriya's Scene is on a run
Scene, the Tamil crime thriller with Suriya, Nazriya Nazim and Naslen, has grossed Rs 81.5 crore worldwide in two days. Reports say Netflix has bought the digital rights for Rs 88 crore, though no streaming date has been announced.
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ED searches CoinDCX and Delta over cross-border crypto trades
The Enforcement Directorate searched three premises in Bengaluru linked to CoinDCX and Delta Exchange India on November 4 and 5, alleging customer funds were routed abroad in breach of FEMA. Both companies deny wrongdoing.
₹64 crore for a Bengaluru firm to build AI-powered spy satellites that listen, not look
The Technology Development Board will give Astrome Technologies ₹64.05 crore to develop an indigenous space-based electronic intelligence satellite constellation that pairs AI with signal detection. The project costs ₹128.11 crore in all.
Eleven Indian languages, 50-plus voices: a homegrown AI lab ships a text-to-speech model
Indian AI lab Chariot on Thursday launched Chariot-1-TTS-Multilingual, a text-to-speech model covering 11 Indic languages and English with more than 50 voices. It can mix any two supported languages inside one sentence and clone a voice from a few seconds of audio.
Rs 1.6 billion in AI funding, but four companies took 72 per cent of it
Indian AI startups raised $1.6 billion across 81 rounds in the first nine months of 2026, up from $677 million a year earlier. Neysa, Sarvam, Yotta and Emergent alone accounted for 72 per cent. Funding for AI application startups fell 27 per cent, and the number of rounds dropped 43 per cent.
Two more bodies found in Tamil Nadu in Rajajinagar murders case
Bengaluru police recovered two more bodies near the Yercaud forest in Tamil Nadu's Salem district on Saturday, believed to be those of the prime accused's wife and mother-in-law. Three of the seven victims have now been found.
803 voter IDs, 397 people: Karnataka's election office admits the rolls are still tangled
In Bengaluru's Mahadevapura constituency, 803 voter IDs were found linked to just 397 people even after the Special Intensive Revision. The Chief Electoral Officer's office has called them procedural errors during data processing, and a second problem, one EPIC number in two constituencies, is on record.
A note in the toilet, 178 passengers, and a 90-minute search that ended in 'hoax'
A note threatening to hijack IndiGo flight 6E 451 to Lucknow was found in an aircraft toilet about 30 minutes after take-off. The plane returned to Bengaluru, a full emergency was declared, and police declared it a hoax after a 90-minute search.
Crypto cash going abroad? ED searches CoinDCX and Delta Exchange over FEMA breach
The Enforcement Directorate has searched three premises in Bengaluru linked to Neblio Technologies, which runs CoinDCX, and Excelium Technologies, which runs Delta Exchange India. It alleges rupees deposited with the platforms were converted to USDT and moved to overseas exchanges in transactions running into thousands of crores.
Startup funding doubles in a week: 28 companies raise $258 million, GIVA alone takes $100 million
Twenty-eight Indian startups raised $258.1 million in the week to November 7, more than double the $115 million of the previous week. Jewellery brand GIVA led with a $100 million round, followed by Bengaluru's EloElo Group at $80 million.
JD(S) stakes claim to Hiriyur bypoll ticket, Kumaraswamy says BJP brass will decide
JD(S) has made a strong pitch to contest the Hiriyur assembly bypoll as the NDA candidate, with Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy saying he will take the demand to the BJP's central leadership. The seat fell vacant after the death of former minister D. Sudhakar. The Congress is expected to field his son, Suhas Sudhakar.
Bus commute gets dearer from midnight: BMTC up 33-35%, KSRTC 23%
Transport Minister Byrathi Suresh announced fare revisions for all four state-run bus corporations on Wednesday. KSRTC fares rise 23% on average and BMTC 33-35%, with the new rates applying from Wednesday midnight. The minister said the aim was to cut losses, not to earn a profit.
Shivakumar heads to Hiriyur as Congress and BJP gear up for a bypoll with a deadline
Karnataka Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar visits Hiriyur on Tuesday to launch development works, including a Rs 244 crore project to fill 16 tanks and the Gayatri reservoir. The seat fell vacant after the death of MLA D. Sudhakar on May 10. A bypoll must be declared within six months, a deadline that ends on November 10. BJP state president B. Y. Vijayendra said the NDA wants the seat and will discuss a joint candidate with JD(S) leader H. D. Kumaraswamy.
16 years old, 56.27 seconds, a national record: India's first Youth Olympics swimming medal
Bengaluru's Dhinidhi Desinghu, 16, won bronze in the women's 100m freestyle at the Dakar Youth Olympics in 56.27 seconds, lowering her own national record. She is the first Indian swimmer to win a medal at an Olympic event, youth or senior, and India's first medal of these Games.
ChatGPT's biggest market in the world is now India. Next stop: UPI
India has become ChatGPT's largest market by weekly active users, with the local base doubling since January, OpenAI India managing director Prabhjeet Singh said. The company is pushing voice and Hindi, working on entry-level phones, and will announce UPI and payments features in the coming weeks.
Rs 4,600 crore moved out through stablecoins, ED says after raids on Mudrex-linked offices
The Enforcement Directorate searched three premises in Bengaluru and one in Madhya Pradesh in a FEMA case against RPAS Technologies, which runs Mudrex and Saber.money. Its preliminary finding: unauthorised cross-border transfers and foreign crypto balances above Rs 4,600 crore.
CCB says the sting aimed at Siddaramaiah is fake, and the trail leads outside Karnataka
Bengaluru's Central Crime Branch says the viral sting video targeting former chief minister Siddaramaiah appears to contain fabricated allegations of sexual abuse, and that statements and evidence gathered so far do not support what it shows. A freelance content creator, Ritesh Pandey, was arrested in the NCR on October 24 for allegedly procuring the phone used to circulate it.
64.5 lakh voters missing from Karnataka's rolls — and most of them are young
Around 64.5 lakh electors are potentially missing from Karnataka's final electoral rolls released after the Special Intensive Revision, according to an estimate based on an elector-to-population ratio of 66.11. Most of those missing are young voters. The Cockroach Janta Party has backed the INDIA bloc's November 1 rally against the exercise.
₹1.10 crore for Molineux, a ₹10 lakh record for 15-year-old Kashvi at WPL auction
Australia captain Sophie Molineux was the costliest buy at the WPL mini auction in Kochi, going to UP Warriorz for ₹1.10 crore against a base price of ₹50 lakh. Kiran Navgire went to Delhi Capitals for ₹75 lakh, and 15-year-old Uma Kashvi became the youngest player ever bought in the league.
Six space startups get ₹1 crore each to put AI on board Indian spacecraft
IN-SPACe has picked six private space companies for seed grants of up to ₹1 crore each under its AI INSPIRED programme, out of a ₹6 crore outlay. Agnikul Cosmos, Digantara, EON Space Labs, OrbitAid Aerospace, Omnipresent Robot Technologies and TakeMeToSpace are the grantees.
NDA takes 16 of 28 Council seats, SP sweeps Varanasi, Jan Suraaj opens account
The BJP-led alliance won 16 of the 28 Legislative Council seats decided across Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka, with the BJP alone on 13. The Congress managed one seat and lost all four in Karnataka, while the Samajwadi Party took five in UP, two of them in Varanasi. The Jan Suraaj Party won its first Bihar MLC seat.
SIR screened 10 crore voters and found 1,600 'foreigners'. Congress wants the CEC out
The Congress on Thursday called the Special Intensive Revision a conspiracy run by the PM and home minister, and demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's removal. Jairam Ramesh said just 1,600 suspected foreign nationals were detected across six states after nearly 10 crore people were screened. The Election Commission has defended the exercise in a 248-page affidavit to the Supreme Court.
Prasidh out of New Zealand ODIs, J&K's Auqib Nabi gets the call
Prasidh Krishna has been ruled out of India's five-match ODI series in New Zealand starting November 4, with Jammu and Kashmir seamer Auqib Nabi replacing him. New Zealand also lost Lockie Ferguson and Matt Henry to low-grade tears.
Ranji round three: Mumbai, Bengal, Vidarbha and Karnataka close out innings wins
Mumbai beat Haryana by 10 wickets for a third straight bonus-point win, with Tanush Kotian's career-best 8/81. Bengal crushed Kerala by 287 runs, Vidarbha beat Goa by an innings and 27, Karnataka beat Tripura by an innings and 116, and Madhya Pradesh thrashed Bihar by an innings and 174.
Nandini milk to cost Rs 8 a litre more from November 1 as Karnataka Cabinet clears hike
The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday approved an Rs 8 per litre increase in Nandini milk prices, with the revised rates taking effect from November 1. The government has not yet released the reason for the increase or the new price for each variant.
A torch, a parcel and a YouTube tutorial: how police unravelled the Jeremiah Road blast
Bengaluru police have arrested a 27-year-old bakery salesman who allegedly built an IED inside a torch with two childhood friends to kill his uncle over property and money. The device exploded on 20 October, injuring his uncle and a security guard. About 1,200 personnel worked on the case.
Two months after selling Unacademy, Munjal and Saini are raising a ₹700-crore AI fund
Unacademy founders Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini are raising a ₹700-crore venture fund called Longshot Capital, focused on AI and deep tech. About ₹300 crore of commitments are in, with a first close targeted for January 2027.
₹1.30 crore for a leaked paper: Karnataka clears prosecution of IAS officer in KPSC scam
The Karnataka government has sanctioned the prosecution of jailed IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar, former KPSC controller of examinations, in the veterinary officers' recruitment paper leak case. The CID alleges he took ₹1.30 crore of ₹1.52 crore collected from candidates.
61,059 deletion requests, not one with a reason: election officials filed Form-7 against voters
Electoral Registration Officers and Assistant EROs in Karnataka filed 61,059 Form-7 applications to strike names off the rolls, and none records why. Officials blame auto-generated forms. The final roll is due on October 27.
'In Karnataka, the Kannadiga is sovereign': CM warns IT firms over hiring, and Bengaluru picks sides
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar warned private firms of action if they are found deliberately sidelining Kannadigas in recruitment, after a video alleging that Bengaluru IT companies reject candidates who list Kannada as their mother tongue went viral. The claims have not been independently verified and the government has not named any company.
One line in Patna, protests in five cities: BJP takes Kharge's 'baap' jibe to the street
A day after the Congress president's remark in Patna, the BJP staged protests at state headquarters across the country on Monday. Effigies were burnt in Patna, a march was stopped in Delhi and protesters were detained in Bengaluru. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh called the remark an insult to the country.