In a refreshing development, the hall attached to temple at Eravathur near Mala became the venue for the Eid prayers on Wednesday for the devotees from the nearby mosque which is still remaining flooded.

An aged woman who has been to the well to lift the water slipped accidentally into it and drowned at Kattu near Hemmadi village in the taluk on Wednesday.

Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji of Pejawar Mutt on Wednesday announced Rs 10 lakh donation from the Pejawar Mutt Trust for taking up relief and rehabilitation measures in Kodagu and Sullia.

Senior journalist and author Kuldip Nayar died at a hospital here. He was 95, his family confirmed on Thursday. Nayar breathed his last at the Escorts Hospital at 12.30 a.m., and his cremation will take place at 1 p.m. on Thursday afternoon.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday made a strong attack on the Narendra Modi government by referring to incidents of lynching and attacks on Dalits, saying people in India were angry and the ruling alliance was weakening support structures meant for the weaker sections.

Uganda’s first deputy prime minister took a fall while kicking a football during the inauguration of a football tournament. The footage of the incident soon went viral online.

State BJP president BS Yeddyurappa on Wednesday received the ‘asthi kalash’ of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at New Delhi from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national president Amith Shah and Vajpayee’s family members.

Following rains, flood and landslides in Kerala, and Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has incurred Rs 3.42 crore loss as it  has suspended the bus services to those places.