In a recent operation, the Central Crime Branch Police in Bengaluru successfully dismantled an illegal activity racket, resulting in the arrest of individuals involved in vending foreign cigarettes, illegal LPG cylinder refilling, and operating gambling outlets. The raids led to the confiscation of cash, cigarettes, and cylinders collectively worth lakhs of rupees.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday asked Union Home Minister Amit Shah why he was not giving a statement in Parliament on the security breach issue but was giving interviews to TV channels.

A convict serving life imprisonment in the church blast case has been granted parole by the High Court of Karnataka for two weeks.

Police have questioned a friend of Lalit Mohan Jha, a key accused in the Parliament security breach incident, for hours in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, an officer said.

The Karnataka government is taking measures to prevent female foeticides, including amending the concerned legislations, formulating a new policy and setting up a State-level task force, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

 Security arrangements in the West Bengal assembly will be beefed up, Speaker Biman Banerjee said.

Actor Shreyas Talpade suffered a heart attack and is recuperating in a hospital here after undergoing an angioplasty, an official of the medical facility said on Friday.

The swearing-in ceremony of Rajasthan chief minister-designate Bhajan Lal Sharma will take place in Jaipur on Friday.