Senior journalist Sanath Kumar Belagali said that Dalits and progressive activists should come together to protect the Constitution which has been facing threat in the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh from Monday.

Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar has ended his association with Kerala Blasters Football Club (KBFC), the Indian Super League (ISL) outfit said in a statement on Sunday.

State Congress incharge KC Venugopal said that the BJP’s money power would not work in Karnataka. After holding a meeting with Coordination Committee president and former chief minister Siddaramaiah, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and working president Eshwar Khandre at the Kumara Krupa Guest House here on Sunday, he said that though the central government misused the central agencies like Income Tax and Enforcement Directorate, it’s money power would not have any impact on the state politics in Karnataka. The BJP would not succeed in its efforts, he said.

Five persons, including a woman, died of suspected asphyxiation inside a septic tank of a house in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday.

Denying that it wanted a Bishop accused in the rape of a nun to step down, the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) on Sunday said that law should take its course in the matter.

KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao said that as the Ballary MLAs were in regular touch with him, there was no need to speak to them every now and then.

The rise in domestic fuel prices continued unabated on Sunday, with the price of petrol nearing the psychological Rs 90 a litre mark in Mumbai and the fuel selling at Rs 89.29 under the dynamic pricing regime.