Hosapete (K'taka): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday asserted that he would hold the office for a full five years.

District In-charge Minister K Venkatesh has alleged that the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) is attempting to create problems for Karnataka through its orders that favour Tamil Nadu.

Veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Thursday acknowledged that there is a delay in naming the leader of opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and the new state party president, and said he would make all efforts to exert pressure on the party high command to make these appointments.

The owner of a store at Chittari Chetukundu under the jurisdiction of the Bekal Police Station has complained to the police that a person, who visited the shop in the guise of a customer recently, stole the mobile phone that the owner had kept on the table in the shop.

Zika virus has been detected in a mosquito species in Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka following which blood samples of people with high fever have been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) for examination, officials said on Thursday.

The excise officers in the district have arrested two men for transport of narcotics in their car at Seethangoli and have seized the one-kg ganja in their possession.

The Mangaluru CEN Police officers have registered a case of duping, based on a complaint that a man was cheated of Rs 6.5 lakh with an offer on social media of a part-time job.

A 35-year-old biker was grievously injured in an accident on the National Highway 75 near Nelyadi on Wednesday night, when his motorbike collided head-on with a truck, and died on the way to hospital.