Malayalam filmmaker and Sangh Parivar fellow traveller Ramasimhan Aboobakker announced that he has quit the BJP.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has strongly criticized the decision of the Siddaramaiah-led government to repeal the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2022, commonly known as the Anti-Conversion Bill. Bommai accused the Congress government of engaging in divisive politics and appeasement tactics since coming into power.

A young man was reportedly stabbed in Janata Colony, Surathkal, on Thursday night. The victim, identified as Muhammad Shafi, a 35-year-old resident of Kana Colony, was allegedly attacked by a 24-year-old individual named Twahir, who also resides in the same area.

A local court here on Friday convicted and sentenced a suspended IPS officer in a sexual harassment case.
The court sentenced former ADGP Rajesh Das to three years imprisonment and also levied a fine of Rs 10,000 on him.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Friday said the Congress will hold protests at all district centres against the BJP government at the Centre on June 20, as he accused it of ensuring that the state doesn't get the required amount of rice to implement its 'Anna Bhagya' scheme, which provides additional 5 kg of rice for BPL families.

Cyclone Biparjoy, which lashed Kutch-Saurashtra region, has left a trail of destruction as it damaged 5,120 electricity poles and rendered 4,600 villages without power even as the authorities said that no loss of human life has been reported.

Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has challenged Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to an open debate on the allegations levelled by the latter against him on the Sanjivani Credit Cooperative Society scam matter.

A top Treasury Department official said Thursday that the cap on the price of Russia's oil is severely curtailing its greatest source of revenue as it wages war in Ukraine.