BJP MP D V Sadananda Gowda, a former Chief Minister of Karnataka, has once again criticized the state unit of the BJP. He called on the party to abandon a "dictatorial attitude" and demanded action against MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal and others for their alleged indiscipline.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) rescued a mariner on board the Liberia-flagged MR Ivory Ray Ship through a successful medical evacuation when the ship was 9.5 nautical miles off the New Mangalore Port on Wednesday morning.

A 54-year-old woman from Panvel in Maharashtra lost more than Rs three lakh to an online fraud while buying dry-fruits, police said on Wednesday.

In a recent address to the media, Minister Priyank Kharge raised questions about the progress made by the BJP-led government at the Centre. While acknowledging the construction of the Ram Mandir, Kharge expressed concerns about the envisioned "Rama Rajya," stressing the need for a society built on principles of social and economic equality.

In a heartbreaking incident near a private hospital in Harurgeri, Bidar, a one-and-a-half-year-old child named Basavachethana lost his life on Tuesday evening. The unfortunate accident occurred when a car, allegedly being driven by a negligent driver engrossed in a mobile phone conversation, ran over the child.

A 63-year-old former JNU employee was arrested for allegedly duping professors of the varsity and IIT Delhi of more than Rs 11 crore on the pretext of providing affordable housing project under the guise of DDA's purported land-pooling policy, police said on Wednesday.

Asserting that there is a pro-BJP wave in the state and country, the party's state chief B Y Vijayendra on Wednesday called on cadres to work unitedly for its victory in the Lok Sabha polls, and not take the opposition lightly at a time when the Congress is ruling the state.

In the early hours of Wednesday, a private bus traveling on the Tumakuru-Bengaluru National Highway 4 collided with a truck near Thonachinaguppe in Nelamangala taluk.