The rupee tanked 84 paise to close at its lifetime low of 77.01 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday as intensifying geopolitical risks due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict pushed investors to safe haven assets.

Belthangady: The DK District Administration on Monday sanctioned a relief fund for the Adivasi family of Kanyadi Dinesh who was murdered earlier last month by BJP leader and Bajrang Dal worker Krishna Dharmasthala.

Fahad Shah, the editor-in-chief of the magazine ‘thekashmirwalla’ was arrested again by the Shopian Police for the third time in a month. This was hours after getting bail from a Shopian court over a case concerning his reporting of a 2020 encounter in Srinagar, reported The Indian Express.  

Belagavi: The soldier who shot five of his Border Security Force (BSF) colleagues before shooting himself dead, reportedly hails from Karnataka’s Belagavi district.

New Delhi: Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar on Monday, congratulated a Karnataka student for creating university at the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) by bagging 16 gold medals. Bhaskar also said academic excellence and Hijab are not mutually exclusive.

Thirty of the 36 disputed villages along the Meghalaya-Assam border will remain in Meghalaya as recommended by regional committees of the two states, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma informed the assembly on Monday.

 Russia announced a ceasefire starting Monday morning and the opening of humanitarian corridors in several areas, a day after hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians attempting to flee to safety were forced to shelter from Russian shelling that pummelled cities in Ukraine's center, north and south.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians attempting to flee to safety were forced to shelter from Russian shelling that pummeled cities in Ukraine's center, north and south, leaving corpses in the streets. As Ukraine officials described a catastrophic situation during failed evacuation efforts in Kyiv's suburbs, officials from both sides planned a third round of talks Monday.