In an incident reported Boodugumpa village of the district, a woman, Gangamma Donne, was allegedly hacked to death by her husband when he was in a drunken state on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its interim orders on three issues, including the power to denotify properties declared as “waqf by courts, waqf-by-user or waqf by deed” after hearing a clutch of pleas challenging the validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.

Along with causing waterlogging and danger of inundation of houses, the heavy showers in Bengaluru have hit its power infrastructure on a large scale, with 1,465 electricity poles and 190 transformers being damaged this month.

Farmers from Mandya district have reportedly filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Karnataka High Court challenging the state government’s decision to transform Brindavan Garden, located at the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dam, into a Disneyland-like space. The petitioners argue that the project poses serious environmental threats and undermines the interests of the farming community.

New Covid-19 reading modules developed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) reportedly laud Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the pandemic but omit any mention of the death toll.

Chinese researchers have found a new, previously unknown bacteria species on the Tiangong Space Station, a Chinese modular space station in low Earth orbit. These findings are recorded in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. The discovery has been formally named as Niallia tiangongensis. These findings were made from the microbial samples collected from multiple surfaces across the space station during the Shenzhou 15 mission, which landed on Earth in June 2023.

 Senior government officials offered tribute to the victims of the air crash at the Mangaluru International Airport on the 15th anniversary of the mishap on Thursday.

The Karnataka High Court has granted interim relief to BJP MLA Harish Poonja in connection with a communal hate speech case registered at Uppinangady Police Station.