The CBI on Monday requested a special court hearing the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case not to discard entirely the testimonies of prosecution witnesses who have turned hostile, even as the court said the CBI's theory and charge sheet are "riddled with unexplained gaps".

Urging the government to fulfill their demands including dues of salaries, BSNL workers led by the district committee of the Karnataka State BSNL Non-permanent Workers Union staged a protest here on Monday.

Reiterating its allegation of mass deletion of names of voters in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party said on Monday it will soon start a "door-to-door" programme to urge people to ensure that their names, if deleted, are added to the voters' list.

Ihsan Karnataka Foundation president NKM Shafi Saadi inaugurated the ‘Milad Sneha Sangama’ programme organized at the ‘Connect-2018 Community Convention’, to mark the Karnataka Cultural Foundation’s 5th anniversary at the Nehru Stadium here on Monday.

The principal district and sessions court remanded journalist Chandra K Hemmadi who was arrested on charges of sexually abusing 21 minor boys under POCSO Act, to 14 days judicial custody.

About 68 per cent people in India are protein deficient, while 71 per cent have poor muscle health, a recent survey has pointed out.

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Karnataka Cultural Foundation (KCF), international organization of non-resident Kannadigas, KCF, SSF and SYS conducted a rally as part of the ‘Connect-2018 Community Convention’, from Dr BR Ambedkar Circle to the Nehru Stadium here on Monday.

Violence broke here on Monday over alleged illegal slaughter of cattle, leaving a police inspector and a youth dead as a mob went on a rampage here torching a police post and clashed with police, which opened fire to control the situation, officials said.