Karnataka Rajya Vokkaligara Sangha on Thursday warned the Congress high command that it will fight vehemently if injustice happens to Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, who is aspiring to become CM.

 Government doctors in Haryana on Thursday observed a two-hour pen-down strike and kept the OPD services closed over non-fulfilment of their demands.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Goa on Friday to take part in the 550-year celebrations of the Shri Samsthan Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Math and unveil a 77-feet bronze statute of Lord Ram.

Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar announced on Wednesday that the Karnataka government plans to reintroduce student elections in the state, which were banned in 1989 following incidents of violence.

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested a couple from Mysuru in connection with a major racket involving the sale of adulterated ghee under the Nandini brand. The couple, identified as Shivakumar and his wife Ramya, were allegedly running a high-tech illegal manufacturing unit in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu.

A loaded dumper broke through the railing of an overbridge, and plunged nearly 25 feet onto the railway track near Burhwal junction, leaving the driver seriously injured and disrupting train movement in the area, officials said on Thursday.