Five women sanitation workers, known as pourakarmikas, employed by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), were assaulted by a mother and her son in Byadarahalli on Wednesday, September 11. The incident occurred after a dispute over garbage collection outside the duo's residence, and the assault was captured in a video that has since gone viral on social media.

Reliance Jio has resolved a network outage that affected users across India earlier today.

AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal has openly expressed her disapproval of Atishi's appointment as Delhi's new Chief Minister, referring to her as a "Dummy CM" and raising concerns about national security. Maliwal's objections stem from allegations that Atishi's parents supported Afzal Guru, convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case.

Leading scientists, including some from the jury, have questioned the "integrity" of the process in light of the purported removal of three eminent scientists from the pool of candidates for the newly established Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP). The scientists are Suvrat Raju, a physicist at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Prateek Sharma, a physicist at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru; and Suman Chakraborty of IIT Kharagpur, who received the Infosys Prize for Engineering and Computer Science in 2022.

A horrifying incident has come to light in Bengaluru, where a man was stripped, brutally assaulted, and forced to run naked on a public road. Although the incident reportedly took place a month ago, the video went viral only recently.

Lakshmi Hebbalkar, Karnataka's Minister of Women and Child Development, has dismissed allegations of a Congress conspiracy related to the arrest of BJP MLA Munirathna. Speaking at Kalaburagi Airport on Tuesday, Hebbalkar countered the BJP's claims, stating that the Congress has no need for such conspiracies. She remarked that if the Congress engaged in similar tactics as the BJP, Karnataka's jails would be overcrowded.

In Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh, tension escalated as a man's quest for internet celebrity went too far. A 23-year-old guy named Mukesh Kumar is shown in a video circulating on social media laying motionless and acting dead on a busy Kasganj road.

The plastic menace continues to threaten aquatic creatures, as an alarming increase in sea turtle deaths has been reported along Karnataka's coast. Over the past month, the carcasses of five critically endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (ORST) and one green turtle have been found washed ashore at Honnavar and Karwar. This year alone, Uttara Kannada district has reported at least 24 turtle deaths.