Pune: Seven members of a family, including three children, were killed and another one was injured early on Wednesday when the SUV they were travelling in crashed into a roadside tree near Satara on Mumbai- Bengaluru highway in Maharashtra, police said.

Chikkamagaluru: Businessman and son-in-law of former Chief Minister SM Krishna VG Siddhartha was on Wednesday evening cremated at Chetanahalli Estates in Chikkamagaluru.

Bengaluru: Taking action against three disgruntled MLAs of the party who were disqualified from the assembly by speaker Ramesh Kumar, JD(s) on Wednesday expelled the MLAs from party.

Kasaragod: In a tragic incident two teenagers died after drowning in a lake on Wednesday afternoon here at Manya near Nirchalu.

Mangaluru: In a shocking incident a running car caught fire at Kodialbail near jail road in the city on Wednesday afternoon here.

Indore: A grandson of Shah Bano, the woman who became the face of the legal battle for married Muslim women's rights, supports the ban on triple talaq, but says punishment for husband can make the wife's life more miserable.

Bengaluru: The board of Coffee Day Enterprises on Wednesday appointed S V Ranganath as the interim chairman of the company after the death of its founder, chairman and MD VG Siddhartha. The board also appointed Nitin Bagmane as interim Chief Operating Officer (COO).

The Congress's Karnataka unit on Wednesday sought an impartial and fair investigation into the death of Coffee Day Enterprises founder V G Siddhartha, saying "the invisible hands that ended his life" should be uncovered.