After dilly-dallying for almost three months, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy entrusted the responsibilities of districts to his cabinet colleagues on Tuesday.

Amid jousting in the opposition, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that a collective decision will be taken on the issue of Prime Ministerial candidate.

Progressive thinker Prof Mahesh Chandra Guru said that instead of becoming the chowkidar of farmers, labourers, dalits, tribals, minorities, backward classes and neglected communities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the chowkidar of Hindutva, fundamentalists, market and exploiting forces which is the biggest betrayal to the nation.

Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar said that though the city was not in the list of ten most air polluted cities, there was a need to bring in a stringent law to control the air pollution in the city.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday rescued 18 women, aged 18-30 years, who had become victims of human trafficking. Most of them belong to Nepal.

India's tech hub Bengaluru on Tuesday joined 13 other cities, including London, to clean up toxic air and check pollution in urban areas the world over.

The digital payments market in India is set to become a trillion-dollar industry in the next five years, led by growth in mobile payments which are slated to rise to $190 billion by 2023 from $10 billion in 2017-18, the NITI Aayog said on Tuesday.

BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa appealed those who have been fighting for separate North Karnataka state to drop the demand as the BJP would fight inside and outside the Houses for the development of the north Karnataka.