Sirisha Bandla remembers the moment she learnt that she was fascinated by space. It was as a little girl, growing up in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district.

Karnataka agriculturalist, Ayyappa Masagi has been working out ways to best use rainfall and is keen to share what he has learnt over the decades. He says that with good rainwater usage farmers can have more control over the success of their crops.

Rainwater - a pure and natural form of water - is the only water used in the home of A R Shivakumar and his family in Bengaluru.

Where have all the sparrows gone? Bengaluru's Edwin Joseph misses them - and has been doing all he can to make sure they remain daily visitors to his house in the city.

The old slogan 'Unity in Diversity' needs to be revived in spirit - for languages too. And for that, there needs to be a respect for all the languages in this incredible country. No language is more equal than any other.

KS Eshwarappa, a Karnataka BJP leader, has shot to national prominence, but not in a good way. "Mr 40% Cut Money" is among the labels assigned to him after a contractor, who allegedly died by suicide, accused him of demanding kickbacks.

After the confrontation over Muslim students wearing hijab on campus, the latest flashpoint in Karnataka seems to be halal meat.

A 160-year-old church in Karnataka's Chikkaballapur was found vandalised by unknown people. A police complaint has been filed by the church authorities. The incident at Karnataka's newest district formed in 2007 after carving it out from Kolar.

Karnataka has asked officials to trace, track and quarantine primary and secondary contacts of Covid patients in the state in a fresh notification issued by the state's health department.

The contentious anti-conversion bill was tabled in the Karnataka assembly on Tuesday despite concerns raised by the opposition and Christian leaders over its potential misuse to target religious minorities.

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee Chief D K Shivakumar tweeted that it was a sign that "all of us men in politics need to do better to shed our inherent regressive attitudes towards women."

Hours after his reprehensible remark on rape triggered massive outrage, a senior Congress leader in Karnataka has now apologised for the "indifferent and negligent" comment made in the state assembly.

The ruling BJP in Karnataka won 11 of the 25 Legislative Council seats, for which voting was held last Friday. After counting, the party fell short of majority in the 75-member house.

"I think the last call he made was about the film," said Amoghavarsha

The Karnataka Health Department on Friday released guidelines for the discharge of COVID-19 patients who have recovered after testing positive for the Omicron variant.

There have been many concerns expressed on social media by students who are required to appear for offline exams despite taking online classes for months, particularly from those who have to travel for these exams.

Following the detection of two cases of Covid's Omicron variant in Karnataka, there is concern over what the state government can and should do next.

Amid concern over two cases of Omicron detected in Karnataka, NDTV spoke to Dr Vishal Rao, member of the Genomic Surveillance Committee of the state Covid Task Force, on how the Bengaluru doctor may have been infected and the way ahead.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will hold a meeting today with his colleagues and health experts on how to deal with the Omicron threat. With two Omicron cases, Karnataka is the first state to find this coronavirus variant of concern.

Comedian Munawar Faruqui indicated he may not do any more shows, after at least 12 of his shows were cancelled in the last two months due to threats from right-wing groups.

Residents of Bengaluru finally had the fortune to see the bright sun this morning after days of incessant rainfall caused widespread damage across the capital city of Karnataka.

An anti-conversion bill, which is likely to be tabled in the Karnataka Assembly next month, could "become a tool for the fringe elements to take law into their own hands", Bengaluru Archbishop Reverend Peter Machado said today.

Schools in Bengaluru Urban and in some other districts in south interior Karnataka are closed today due to heavy rainfall forecast.

A ceremony to pay tribute to Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar was organised at the Bengaluru Palace grounds this afternoon.