Two school girls drowned in pond at Moolyatadka in Kolthige village in Bellare station limit on Saturday evening.

Five girl students of a tribal boarding school in the district allegedly consumed pesticide and poisonous seeds, ashamed of finding graffiti with their names on the school wall,expressing love for them,police said.

Two men on a bike fired shots at a beauty parlour run by controversial south Indian actress Leena Mariya Paul here Saturday,but no one was injured, police said.

Shoukath Ali, resident of Panemangaluru and student of Ujire SDM college has been selected for Under-19 junior volleyball team that will participate in Under-19 national level volleyball tournament in Chhattisgarh.

The number of deaths due to consumption of poisoned prasad at Kichu Gutthi Maramma temple in Sulwadi village of Hanut taluk in Chamarajanagar has raised to 13 on Saturday.

“India is growing and the platform for nation building is a university. And, for the universities to move forward, the backbone is research,” said  Mr Faizal E. Kottikollon, Founder and Chairman, KEF Holdings, UAE after inaugurating the MIT-KEF R&D Centre at Manipal Institute of Technology here on Saturday.

Internet giant, Google has announced the launch of its own shopping portal in India. Simply named as Google Shopping, it is more of an aggregator. This means that the site lists deals from all e-commerce retailers such as Flipkart, Amazon, Shopclues, Club Factory, Snapdeal and even from lesser known ones such as Shein.

Police are probing suspected foul play in the death of 11 people due to food poisoning after consuming 'prasad' at a temple in Chamarajanagar district, a senior official said Saturday.