Hyderabad: The first session of the third Telangana Legislative Assembly began here on Saturday with the oath taking process of the newly-elected MLAs getting underway.

Bengaluru: In a display of growing internal discord within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislator SR Vishwanath has openly criticized party leader R Ashok, earning the BJP the nickname 'Bucket Janata Party' according to a Congress statement on social media.

Chikkamagaluru: A young man identified as Bharat, a resident of Bengaluru, has gone missing during a trekking expedition at the popular Rani Jhari Point in Durgadahalli Gudda, Mudigere taluk.

Tumakuru: Two unidentified people from Hassan and Chitradurga were killed on the spot in a truck-canter collision on the National Highway 48 near Oorukere here on Saturday morning.

Hubballi: Mukhyamantri Chandru, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Karnataka State President, has echoed the sentiments of former BJP MLA Goolihatti Shekar, claiming that he too faced discrimination in BJP like Shekar, despite being a member of the BJP.

 Former BJP legislator Goolihatti Shekar, who made headlines by alleging that he was denied entry into the RSS museum in Nagpur on the basis of being a Dalit, has released a second audio clip challenging party leaders to produce CCTV footage from the museum.

 The Sampya police found a decomposed body of a 22-year-old youth identified as Hanumanthappa, hailing from Bagalkote district's Badami, at Agumbe Ghat on Friday evening. The victim, employed as a tipper driver in an earth movers firm located in Kumbra, was reported missing earlier.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday announced Rs 6,000 cyclone relief to people affected by cyclone Michaung.