Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 21 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai on Tuesday, while speaking at the '2022 Food Awards' organised by Bengaluru Hoteliers Association said that the hotel industry has a lot of scopes to grow in the tourism industry.

Uttara Kannada (Karnataka) [India], September 20 (ANI): Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has given in-principle approval for the setting up of a super specialty hospital in Uttara Kannada district, said Health and Medical Education Minister Dr.K.Sudhakar.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 8 (ANI): Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has instructed officials to make arrangements for starting a sound and light show at the palace built in saint Kanakadasa's birthplace Bada, said the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) on Thursday.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 11 (ANI): Claiming (mental) harassment, a senior IPS officer P Ravindranath resigned from his position on Tuesday in Karnataka.

Bengaluru Nov 29 PTI In a heart-wrenching incident the bodies of two COVID-19 victims who died in July 2020 are rotting in the Employees State Insurance Corporation Hospital mortuary in the city for the past over one year According to hospital sources a 40-year old woman and a man in his early 50s were admitted in the hospital in Rajajinagar with coronavirus in June 2020 and died a few days later in the following month Since then their bodies are kept in the mortuary as the final rites were not performed for unknown reasons In this regard Rajajinagar BJP MLA and former minister S Suresh Kumar has written to Karnataka Labour Minister A Shivaram Hebbar requesting him to get the matter investigated and punish those responsible for the inhuman incident In his letter whose copy he shared with reporters Kumar said that during the first wave of COVID-19 two people died in the ESI Hospital in July 2020 and their bodies are still rotting in the mortuary of the hospital The role of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanaara Palike and the ESI authorities is grave In this regard I request you order a high level probe get the detailed inquiry report and initiate stringent action against those who are responsible for this inhumane act Kumar wrote In his emotionally charged letter Kumar said such incidents should never occur anywhere During the peak of COVID-19 we came across various heart-wrenching incidents but the incident that came to the light in the ESI Hospital is most unfortunate It is the height of irresponsibility and inhuman behaviour Kumar wrote PTI GMS RS GMS SS SS

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 16 (ANI): One lane on highways should be kept free for ambulances and VIPs, said Karnataka Minister Shivaram Hebbar on Thursday.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 27 (ANI): Accusing Congress of gaining political grounds over Mysuru gang rape case, Karnataka Minister Shivaram Hebbar on Friday made an insensitive statement that such "incidents of rape happen all the time" adding that such incidents occurred during times of other governments too.