Bengaluru, Dec 22: Karnataka has noted that 531 passengers from the UK had arrived into the state on Sunday and out of them, 138 did not have COVID-19 negative certificates though all of them were asymptomatic. 

Chennai, Dec 22: Two passengers, who arrived from the United Kingdom, tested positive for coronavirus at Kolkata airport on Sunday, a Kolkata airport official said.

Bengaluru, Dec 22: India is witnessing a reduction in the daily number of COVID-19 cases being reported, but the news of a new "out-of-control" coronavirus strain found in the UK has sent the government into a spiral.

Bengaluru, Dec 22: A poll official was found to be in possession of a loaded revolver at a polling station at Desur village in Belagavi taluk during the first phase of Gram Panchayat polling on Tuesday.

Bengaluru, Dec 22: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddiyurappa on Tuesday said all precautionary measures against the backdrop of the new strain Covid-19 are being ensured in the state.

Bangalore, Dec 22: Online classes for schools falling under Recognised Unaided Private Schools Association (RUPSA) has begun as the government has promised to meet majority of its demands, the organisation's president Lokesh Talikote said here on Tuesday.

Mumbai, Dec 22: Filmmaker Karan Johar on Tuesday announced an "epic series" as part of the "Change Within" initiative to celebrate 75 years of the country's Independence.

Bengaluru, Dec 22: Voting is underway for 3,019 panchayats in 117 taluks of Karnataka in the first phase of gram panchayat elections on Tuesday with Covid-19 protocols in place.

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 22: A CBI court here on Tuesday found a catholic priest and a nun guilty in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Sister Abhaya, whose body was found in the well of a convent in Kottayam in 1992.

MangaIuru, Dec 22: K M Shareef, former chairman of Popular Front of India, passed away today at a private hospital in the city following a few weeks of illness. He was 56.