An electricity pole installed near the junction of the Kadaba-Panja Road at Kodimbala early Sunday morning broke and fell as an SUV hit it after the driver lost control over the vehicle.

With the Karnataka High Court granting special permission, a candidate who was eight and a half months pregnant wrote the Civil Judge mains exams in Mangaluru instead of the exam centre in Bengaluru on Saturday and Sunday.

An eight-year-old girl studying in Class 2 of the government school at Chinamagera of Afzalpur taluk, who had fallen into a vessel of hot sambar on Thursday, died at the Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru early Sunday morning.

BJP leader Manikanth Rathod and his friend Shrikanth Sulegaon were assaulted with beer bottles by unidentified persons at around midnight on Saturday near the Shankarwadi Cross on the National Highway 150 at Malagatti in Chittapur taluk.

With JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy repeatedly attacking him and his son Yathindra, a former Congress MLA, accusing them of a "cash for transfer" racket, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said he will retire from politics, if proved that he has taken money, even in a single transfer case of government officials.

 "Dhoom" director Sanjay Gadhvi died on Sunday morning at his residence here, his elder daughter Sanjina said. He was 56.

The massive Narendra Modi Stadium in Motera in Ahmedabad on Sunday was at the centre of a massive buzz created by a sea of blue in anticipation of India emphatically defeating the Australians and lifting the Cricket World Cup.

The Indian cyberspace has seen nearly double the number of cyber incidents as compared to the global average, National Cybersecurity Coordinator MU Nair said on Sunday.