Udupi: A series of explosions in Sri Lanka has severely hurt me. My dear ones have died in this attack. Therefore, I have cut short my Ayurvedic treatment at Udupi to leave for Bengaluru ,said Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, who was undergoing Ayurvedic treatment at Sai Radha Heritage at Moolur near Kapu.

Mumbai: NCP president Sharad Pawar and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu Tuesday hit out at the Election Commission, with the latter asking if the model code of conduct was separate for the prime minister on one hand and chief ministers on the other.

Bengaluru: An estimated 60.42 per cent voter turnout was reported tentatively in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Karnataka, for which polls were held in the second phase Tuesday, with the Congress-JD(S) alliance and BJP locked in a fierce contest.

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed 37 of its citizens who were convicted of "terrorism", the interior ministry said.

Colombo: The Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a series of devastating suicide attacks that killed 321 people and wounded more than 500 others in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

Hyderabad: Former Supreme Court Judge N Santosh Hegde said Tuesday Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi hearing a case involving sexual harassment allegations against him was "wholly wrong both in law and morality".

Thushar Vellappally, the Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS) candidate nominated by alliance partner BJP to contest the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat against Congress president Rahul Gandhi, has alleged EVM malfunction at a polling booth today.

Two senior citizens collapsed and died while waiting to cast their vote in two Lok Sabha constituencies, while another elderly person shortly after exercising his franchise in Kerala Tuesday.