A senior advocate in the city, who was living alone, was found dead at his residence in Bejai, police said on Wednesday.

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday.

As the deadline to send views on the Uniform Civil Code ends in two days, the Law Commission has so far received nearly 46 lakh responses, sources said on Tuesday. The Commission is also likely to call certain organisations and people for a personal hearing in the coming days. Some of these invitation letters have already been sent, they said.

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar claimed on Wednesday that Karnataka is becoming a "safe haven" for communal elements and criminals as he hit out at the Congress government in the southern state over the killing of a Jain monk in Belagavi district.

Ruling BRS MLC K Kavitha and other party leaders in Telangana held protests on Wednesday against state Congress president A Revanth Reddy's alleged comments that three hours of free power supply is enough for farmers and that 24x7 free power is not required.

A special NIA court in Kerala on Wednesday convicted six persons, who are allegedly members of now banned radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), in the sensational hand chopping case of a college professor in Kerala in 2010.

A report from Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) in its State Finance Audit Report for the financial year that ended in March 2022 tabled in the Karnataka Assembly on Tuesday mentioned that there are 34 state-run Public Sector Enterprises (PSE) whose net worth is “either zero or negative” due to accumulated losses.

Google Doodle is celebrating a popular savoury street food pani puri from India with a fun interactive game on Wednesday. The search giant allows users to help a street vendor fulfill orders for pani puri. According to each one’s flavour and quantity preferences, each customer can choose different flavours for the bite-sized snack.