The High Court on Saturday dismissed the bail petitions of Kannada film actor Ranya Rao, who has been accused of smuggling gold, and the co-accused in the case Tarun Konduru Raju.

More than 480 civilians have been killed in Sudan’s North Darfur region over the past two weeks, with some attacks reportedly driven by ethnic motivations, according to the United Nations.

The Karnataka High Court passed an interim order on Friday staying the mandatory installation of smart meters for electricity supply connection by the Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) and the state government.

Popular poet Yahya Bootwala has accused the makers of Akshay Kumar’s ‘Kesari 2’ of plagiarising lines from one of his poems without permission or credit.

The Karnataka Dalit Entrepreneurs’ Association has urged the government to increase the fund allocation in the Department of Industries and Commerce towards the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP).

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, which said the candidates contesting panchayat elections were obligated to disclose information about the pending cases against them.

The Karnataka government has found that more than 23 percent of land ownership records in the state are still registered in the names of deceased individuals. This finding emerged as part of an ongoing campaign to link Aadhaar numbers with the Record of Rights, Tenancy and Crops (RTC) documents.

A massive explosion occurred at a firecracker factory here on Saturday with the sound of the blast echoing in around two-kilometre stretch, official sources said.