Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday asserted that he will continue to remain active in Karnataka politics and will not distance himself from the State's political affairs.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday said his recent meeting with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was part of routine political interactions and nothing much should made out of it.

 Veteran film actor Suhasini Mulay, who stars in late legend Dharmendra’s last movie ‘Ikkis’, has stood up for the movie, pointing at how critics in the current social circumstances uphold a movie like ‘The Kashmir Files’, but have been trolling ‘Ikkis’, which carries the message that war brings only bloodshed and trauma.

Police on Thursday detained more than 15 people, including Manjeshwar legislator A K M Ashraf, in connection with the protest against toll collection at the Kumble Arikkadi toll plaza on National Highway 66.

 An organised mule account racket was busted with the arrest of 12 persons who allegedly opened bank accounts illegally in the names of unsuspecting members of the public and used them for fraud and online betting activities, police said.

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) and city police arrested four persons, including a foreign national, in separate anti-narcotics operations in Bengaluru and seized drugs worth over ₹1.2 crore, police said.

An awareness programme on menstrual hygiene management for children with special needs was organised at Navajeevana Special School in Perla by the Department of Occupational Therapy, Yenepoya Faculty of Allied and Health Care Professions, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru, in association with the school.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the redevelopment of the Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi and alleged that he wants to erase every historical heritage to "simply affix" his own nameplate.