KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao said that as the Ballary MLAs were in regular touch with him, there was no need to speak to them every now and then.

AICC general secretary and Karnataka incharge KC Venugopal on Sunday met former chief minister Siddaramaiah at the latter's residence here and held discussion.

In the history of judiciary of the state, Kolar additional district and sessions court judge made a history by awarding death sentence to five rape accused here on Saturday.

Visiting Belagavi for the first time after becoming President in 2017 on Saturday, Ram Nath Kovind recalled that Swami Vivekananda had got the idea of participating in the World Parliament of Religions in 1893 at Chicago in the US in this northwest city of Karnataka, about 500 km from Bengaluru.

As many as 17 students and a Physical Education teacher fell ill after drinking milk at a school in Niluvagilu village in the taluk on Saturday.

The Assam police on Saturday unearthed a case in which Assam-based workers murdered and buried an Assamese man, who had come to work along with them at a coffee estate here. The accused allegedly went to Assam after committing the crime.

Responding to MP Pratap Simha’s statement on a social networking site, District BJP leader M.B Devayya opined “It would be better for the party as well as for the nation, if Pratap Simha, who contested the Lok Sabha polls by someone else’ gracefulness and became the MP; drops charges against me.”

The irresponsible attitude displayed by MP Pratap Simha during the visit of the central team, which had come to assess the extent of damage caused by floods and landslides in Kodagu district,  is most condemnable,” stated former MLA AK Subbayya.