A 63-year-old former JNU employee was arrested for allegedly duping professors of the varsity and IIT Delhi of more than Rs 11 crore on the pretext of providing affordable housing project under the guise of DDA's purported land-pooling policy, police said on Wednesday.

Asserting that there is a pro-BJP wave in the state and country, the party's state chief B Y Vijayendra on Wednesday called on cadres to work unitedly for its victory in the Lok Sabha polls, and not take the opposition lightly at a time when the Congress is ruling the state.

In the early hours of Wednesday, a private bus traveling on the Tumakuru-Bengaluru National Highway 4 collided with a truck near Thonachinaguppe in Nelamangala taluk.

In a recent development surrounding the election of the third trustee of Shri Kalikamba Temple in Barkur, Kundapur, the Kundapur Rural Police Station received both a complaint of physical attack and a counter-complaint of a death threat.

The High Court of Karnataka has held that the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is liable to pay service tax on the computer education for students of economically weaker sections it had outsourced to a private agency.Rejecting the contention of the civic body that it was exempted from paying service tax, the HC in its judgement said, "the Corporation availing the services of the petitioners to render computer education to persons belonging to economically weaker section as regards which the Corporation has made the payment of monies to the petitioners would be amenable to service tax, that is to say, it is not exempted from service tax."

Devaraj Nagar Police in the city have filed an FIR against Mysuru MP Pratap Simha for being derisive of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah while speaking to reporters during a public function in Hunsur recently.

At least six people were killed and several others injured in separate road collisions in various parts of the state due to a heavy fog the previous night and Wednesday morning.

KL Rahul scored 101 as India were all out for 245 in their first innings on the second day of the opening Test against South Africa here on Wednesday.