Mangaluru: Local police on Saturday arrested four people allegedly smuggling cattle illegally to Kerala from Haryana and seized 24 buffaloes from them near Nanthoor in the city.

Mangaluru: As Dakshina Kannada continued to receive heavy rainfall on Saturday, five Taluks in the District have been declared flood affected by the state government.

Mangaluru: JNU Scholar Dr. Kanhaiya Kumar on Saturday stressed on the need of youth reading and understanding the history and about freedom movement and fighters.

New Delhi: Despite the names of veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Mukul Wasnik being thrown up as possible successor to the Congress President's post, when the state party leaders finally sat down to confabulate and propose the names for the post Former president of the Indian National Congress Sonia Gandhi.

Arafat: Torrential rains poured down on pilgrims on Saturday as they performed their rituals in Arafat during Hajj. 

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government Saturday declared 80 Taluks in 17 districts flood-affected even as the death toll went up to 26 and thousands of people were rendered homeless.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Saturday sought Rs 3,000-crore aid from the central government for relief works in the state's 14 flood-hit districts in the northwest and coastal regions, battered by heavy monsoon rains and strong surface winds since August 1.

Bengaluru: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday that insurance firms would be directed to pay compensation to farmers who suffered losses in the floods in Karnataka.