The local Civil and Sessions Court on Sunday gave a temporary stay order against reporting or telecasting the baseless, imaginary and fictitious reports which defame Water Resources and Medical Education Minister DK Shivakumar.

Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar said that the government has decided to give Cabinet rank to former chief minister and Congress-JDS coalition government Coordination Committee Chairman Siddaramaiah.

The mysterious death of a student at Sainik School of Kodagu at Kudige on Saturday created many doubts. On Sunday, parents and relatives of ninth standard student Chingappa (14) resorted to the protest in front of the mortuary of the district hospital at Madikeri alleging that the boy was killed.

Former chief minister and Opposition Leader in the Legislative Assembly BS Yeddyurappa said that instead of naming the Hajj Bhavan after Tipu Sultan, let it be named after former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

The JDS-Congress coalition government has decided to give the cabinet rank to former chief minister and Coalition Government Coordination Committee Chairman Siddaramaiah. Speaking to reporters here on Sunday, Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar said that Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has decided to this effect.

Bodies of three out of four engineering students from Andhra Pradesh who were drowned in Krishna river near here on Saturday, were fished out on Sunday, police said.

Luring a security guard with Rs.10 a gang robbed Rs.1.4 lakh from him. The incident took place in Victoria Layout Vivek Nagar police limit on Saturday.

Injustice has done to the state by clamping the rights of Karnataka. I will write to the centre on this issue again said, Chief Minister Kumaraswamy.