Bengaluru: COVID-19 infections reached the 500 mark in Karnataka on Saturday, as 26 new cases have been confirmed positive, including a journalist, the state government said.

Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP President and Dakshina Kannada MP, Nalin Kumar Kateel has demanded immediate arrest of senior Karnataka Congress leader Zameer Ahmed Khan adding that he was the instigator of the Padarayanapur violence. The MP has demanded that Khan should be arrested under Goonda Act.

Indian Test wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha on Saturday said his locked ancestral house in Siliguri was the target of a burglary attempt on Friday.

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of "human rights advances" made by the king and his powerful son.

The average doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in the country is 9.1 days as of now and from Friday 8 am to Saturday 8 am, India recorded a six-per cent growth in new cases, which is the lowest daily growth rate recorded since the country crossed 100 cases, the government said on Saturday.

As many as 101 former bureaucrats have written to the chief ministers of states expressing anguish over the "harassment" of Muslims in some parts of the country.

Sanjay Kothari, the secretary to the president, was on Saturday appointed the Central Vigilance Commissioner, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique.

A Rajasthan High Court lawyer appeared in an online bail hearing in vest, drawing the ire of a judge.