Swami Abhinava Halashri of Hirehadagali taluk in Vijayanagara taluk, was arrested in Cuttack in Odisha on Tuesday and remanded in Bengaluru CCB Division police officers for 10 days. The pontiff is suspected to have been involved in the case of duping businessman Govindababu Poojary from Byndoor in Udupi district of crores of rupees with an assurance that Poojary would be given the BJP local ticket for the last Assembly elections.

The Dharwad bench of the Karnataka High Court has directed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Karnataka Department of Health and Family Welfare to pay a retired person the gratuity amount of about Rs. 4.1 lakh, inclusive of 10 per cent interest.

The opposition Congress accused the ruling regime in Madhya Pradesh of failing to check atrocities against tribals after a video purportedly showing a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader beating a man with slippers in Anuppur district went viral.

A newly married woman was strangled to death allegedly by her husband near Kottathara in Kerala's northern Wayanad district, police said on Wednesday.

A 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his colleague at Survey of India and burying his body in a courtyard near his house in southwest Delhi's RK Puram area.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the issue of Kashmir during his address to world leaders at the high-level 78th session of the UN General Assembly session here.

The alleged untouchability incident against Kerala Devaswom minister K Radhakrishnan was a 'misunderstanding' of the rituals and no individual is discriminated against in temples, an organisation of traditional high priests in the state said on Wednesday.

The number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India has grown to 42 with the 'Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala' finding a place in the coveted list on Monday, the ASI said.