Virajpet: A distressing incident unfolded in Virajpet on Friday as a young woman took her own life by hanging herself.

Along with "internal injury" caused by the internal reservation and people voting for Congress believing in its poll guarantees, a negative narrative setting in against the BJP because of its failure in effectively countering certain issues, led to its defeat in the recent Assembly polls in Karnataka, according to party MLAs.

The Karnataka government will review the largesse of the previous BJP government in allotting 'hundreds of acres of land' to RSS and its affiliated organisations, Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said on Friday.

The Tamil Nadu Police arrested a BJP supporter from Thuckalay in Kanniyakumari district on Thursday for spreading wrong information regarding the Odish triple tain tragedy.

Abdul Razak (52), son of the late Abubakar and a resident of Surikumer near Mani in the taluk, tragically succumbed to a heart attack on Thursday night while in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

A 22-year-old law student in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that he was assaulted by police in Greater Noida and falsely implicated in an extortion case in which he was jailed last year.

Hodwada village on the Napoklu-Moornadu main road witnessed a tragic incident on Friday when a collision between a car and a bike resulted in the death of the biker at the scene.

Bhatkal-Honnavar MLA, Mankal Vaidya was on Friday named as the district in-charge minister of Uttara Kannada district.