Following the arrest of Puneeth Kerehalli, accused in the murder of the cattle transporter Idrees Pasha in Karnataka’s Ramanagara, two more persons have come fo

In an incident of moral policing and alleged rape in Karnataka, an interfaith couple staying at a hotel in Haveri district was verbally abused and physically as

When actor and activist Chetan Kumar was arrested by the Bengaluru Police in February 2022, he received support from just a couple of his colleagues in the Kann

For decades, large sections of the Billavas have been loyal foot soldiers of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Hindutva ideology in Karnataka. However, a growi

In Kolar’s Pethandlahalli village, caste-based segregation and untouchability have gone unchallenged since its constitutional abolition in 1950. Madiga Dalits i

What allegedly provoked the Vokkaliga men who brutally attacked 27-year-old Dalit man Anish Kumar and severed his arm was the mere act of him and his uncle walk

The order, passed by a City Civil and Sessions Court in Bengaluru, “temporarily restrains” 82 media houses from “publishing any news item that would depict them

This story is part of a series on the Indian Railways, curated by Maria Teresa Raju, with reportage from the five southern states.On a regular working day in Au

The attack by Hindutva vigilantes on three cattle transporters in Ramanagara on March 31, which left one of them dead, happened extremely close to a police stat

If there has been one constant in the life of a Bengalurean, then it has been the ubiquitous pothole. Year after year, potholes and the resultant dangers have o

It has been more than a decade since the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl, Sowjanya, brought thousands of angry protesters out on the streets in the temple

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The punishment given to Prajwal Revanna should be such that he should never be able to go about with his head held high, says Mala (name changed). It was only a

Time and again, politicians propose ideas that paint a picture of a magically transformed Bengaluru, where traffic flows smoothly, and commuters arrive at their

A plea has been filed in the Karnataka High Court seeking BJP leader and former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa’s arrest in a POCSO case that was filed against hi

Gaurav’s (name changed) most cherished memory of his mother is from when he was about 12 years old, when she used to wake him up early in the morning for his ba

Hundreds of voters, particularly Muslims and Dalits, in Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar constituency could lose their spot on the voters’ list with the Election Commis

Members of the right-wing outfit Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on Friday, August 19, took down a controversial banner, displaying a photo of Hindu nationalist Vi

The BJP has a major problem on its hands in the twin coastal Karnataka districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada, the heartland of the Sangh Parivar in southern I

A two-storey building in Bengaluru doubling up as a safe house saw a modest feast on the night of June 4. Its residents, some of the women who’ve lodged complai

Police in Udupi district of Karnataka have deployed security around a banner displaying a photo of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Subhash Chandra Bose with the wo

BJP Member of Parliament (MP) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accused of sexual harassment by six women wrestlers, has been invited to a two-day Kambala event taking

Producers and actors in the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) erupted in fierce opposition to the formation of an Internal Committee (IC) — which would

The Bengaluru Open, a popular professional tennis tournament in the state, opened to much fanfare on February 20. As many sports enthusiasts flocked in to watch

The media have been on a slippery slope in their haste to cover the story about the 3,000-odd sexual abuse videos allegedly recorded by Janata Dal (Secular) lea

“You see the red spot there, that's where the accident occurred,” said the police personnel, pointing at the road where a 50-year-old woman was run over by a Ka

In this series, we travel back to the turbulent 1990s to see what impact the Ram Janmabhoomi movement had on south India. We found that Karnataka was as enthusi

In recent years, Indian Railways has been in the news for claiming to be undergoing a rapid transformation towards catering to the modern-day needs of the passe

In a case eerily similar to the Shraddha Walker murder, a 26-year-old woman’s body was discovered in a fridge, in a dismembered state, in Bengaluru, on Saturday