Vijaya Karnataka is a Kannada newspaper published from a number of cities in Karnataka  and was the number one news paper in Kannada language. It is published from Bengaluru, Hubballi, Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Kalaburagi, Gangavathi, Belagavi, Davanagere, Hassan, Chitradurga etc. This was started by the VRL group, headed by Vijay Sankeshwar, entrepreneur and politician in October 2000. The newspaper along with sister publications (Vijay Times) was bought by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., newspaper editors Head of India, The Times of India during 2006.