The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday raised questions over whether a non-believer from another region can claim the right to enter the Sabarimala temple, as it continued hearing petitions on religious freedom and alleged discrimination at places of worship.

The High Court has rejected the application filed by activist Mahesh Shetty Thimarody challenging Puttur Assistant Commissioner’s externment order sending him out of Dakshina Kannada district.

 The First Additional District and Sessions Court in Gangavathi has sentenced six persons to death in connection with the 2025 murder of BJP leader Venkatesh Kurubara.

In a tragic incident reported from the taluk, a 28-year-old man who was on the way to his pre-wedding shoot died as his car rammed into a roadside tree.

Karnataka Lokayukta Justice B S Patil on Thursday took serious note of the compound wall collapse at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in the city that killed seven people, and announced registration of a case on its own while warning of action against officials found responsible.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would encourage King Charles III to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.

The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela is scheduled to land on Thursday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, seven years after the US Department of Homeland Security ordered an indefinite suspension, citing security concerns.

AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday asked the Karnataka government to take precautions to ensure that incidents like the collapse of the Bengaluru government hospital compound wall, which caused loss of life, do not repeat.