A businessman in the city selling agricultural produce has complained to the Mangalore (East) Police officers that he has been duped of Rs 75 lakh by a businessman from Solapur in Maharashtra, who allegedly debited the money from the bank account of the Mangaluru businessman.

The Karnataka state government accepted on Saturday the Magisterial investigation report on the KJ Halli and DJ Halli riots in Bengaluru in 2020, when three people had died.

Kannada film actor Nagabhushan SS has been arrested, as a speeding car allegedly driven by him rammed into a couple, killing a 48-year-old woman, and critically injuring her 58-year-old husband, police said on Sunday.

Three youngsters who had been riding on a bike were killed on the spot and a fourth rider on a second bike was injured grievously in an accident near Kallihal-Arahatolalu village of Bhadravathi taluk in the district involving the two bikes and a truck.

In a tragic incident, three people of a family from Bengaluru, including a 20-year-old girl and her parents, slipped and fell into and drowned in a canal near Changowdanahalli of HD Kote taluk, Mysuru district recently.

The world's highest steel arch rail bridge over the Chenab River in Reasi district here is being developed as a tourist spot with authorities calling for necessary measures for increasing the visitors' footfall, officials said on Sunday.

Veteran Congress leader and MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa's statement that Veerashaiva Lingayat community is getting a raw deal under his party's government in Karnataka, seems to have created a stir within the ruling party and gained support from BJP's B S Yediyurappa.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday teamed up with fitness influencer Ankit Baiyanpuriya in a cleanliness exercise as part of his call for everyone to undertake sanitation measures for an hour on the eve of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary.