Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) urged the state and central governments to expand the Mangaluru airport runway to ensure the development of the city.

"All is not well in Bihar", the Supreme Court said Wednesday and expressed displeasure over the failure of police in arresting former state minister Manju Verma -- who stepped down in the wake of the Muzaffarpur shelter home scandal -- in a case of recovery of "illegal ammunition" from her.

Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat said that overnight dharna would be continued till the district administration allow sand mining in CRZ and non-CRZ zones and the district bandh would be observed on November 10.

India has jumped 23 places to the 77th position in the World Bank's 'ease of doing business' ranking released Wednesday, a development that could help the country attract more foreign investments.

As it was found guilty in a sexual harassment case in an investigation, a senior professor of the prestigious Indian Institute of Sciences was booted out from the institution.

A Class 1 girl student was allegedly raped by an unidentified man while she was returning home from school here, police said Wednesday.

Following by-election to three Lok Sabha and two Assembly constituencies in the state, the government has postponed the Rajyotsava award presentation programme. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Wednesday wanted to know why BJP had not built a bigger statue for Mahatma Gandhi while they erected a 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, his disciple.