BJP leader Mallikarjuna Muthyala, aged 64 years, was allegedly murdered brutally in Sedam town of the district on Monday night.

The Karnataka Congress has criticized the state government on social media for saying it will set up a new university, ‘when it has failed to release grants to the existing Kannada University’.

The JDS leader and former MLA H Ningappa reportedly resigned from the JDS party on Tuesday.

Police on Tuesday reportedly ordered the owners of shops along the national highway to keep their shops shut in the backdrop of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s visit to Kadur in the district.

More than 20 students of the government school in Shettygere village of Yadgir taluk reportedly fell ill after consumption of tablets to prevent elephantiasis.

A farmer in Ellemala village of Hanur taluk has reportedly donated his land to the Chamarajanagar district health office for the construction of the building a health sub-centre.

The Chitradurga-based Murugha Math seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, booked for allegedly sexually assaulting girls in his ashram hostel, used to threaten them that they must follow his instructions for he said he has contacts in the administration and the police. This statement to the police came from a survivor and is now a part of the charge sheet filed in the court against the 64-year-old pontiff. It was also reported that a girl was murdered who went out to lodge a police complaint.

Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar on Monday again appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi for questioning in the National Herald money laundering case.