A case was registered on Thursday against a group of individuals for allegedly attempting to malign Rameshwaram Cafe and extort money by staging a false incident of food contamination at its Kempegowda airport outlet.

In a tragic road accident near Koinadu on the Mani–Mysuru National Highway this afternoon, four youngsters travelling in a car lost their lives after a head-on collision with a lorry.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a criminal case filed by Karnataka Police against right-wing orator and writer Chakravarthy Sulibele, who had referred to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as ‘Ayogya’ during a public speech.

The Union government has no plans to remove the words “secular” and “socialist” from the Preamble of the Constitution, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal told the Parliament. His remarks come amid growing demands from certain groups to revisit the inclusion of the two terms.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign visits from 2021 to July 2025 have cost the exchequer Rs 362 crore, the Minister of State for External Affairs informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The figure does not include expenses from his recent visits to the United Kingdom and the Maldives, nor the unsettled bills.

In the wake of the fatal crash of Air India flight AI-171 in Ahmedabad on June 12, which claimed 260 lives, the airline witnessed a minor increase in sick leave reported by its pilots, the government informed the Parliament on Thursday.

A portion of a government school in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district collapsed on Friday just as the students were assembling for morning prayers, killing seven children and leaving 28 injured, some of them critically.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea for conducting delimitation exercise in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for increasing the assembly seats in both the states.