The BJP in Karnataka staged a 'dharna' at the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday, demanding the resignation of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who they claim has lost majority in the House after the resignation of 14 MLAs of the ruling Congress-JD(S) alliance.

Bengaluru: Four workers including a child died after a multi-storey building collapsed on Wednesday morning at Hutchins road near Pulikeshi Nagar in the city here. Two more people are feared trapped under the debris at the accident spot.

The political crisis in Karnataka Wednesday reached the Supreme Court as 10 rebel Congress and JD(S) MLAs moved their plea alleging that the state Assembly Speaker has been deliberately not accepting their resignations.

High drama was witnessed outside a hotel here on Wednesday as senior Congress leader and Karnataka Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar was prevented from entering the premises where the rebel MLAs are stationed.

Mangaluru: Bajpe police on Tuesday arrested an accused near Kuppepadavu bus stand on charges of stealing a JCB and a Hitachi vehicle from a stone quarry at Kuppepadavu.

Bengaluru: BJP is facing stiff opposition within the party for inducting Byrathi Basavaraj of  KR Pura constituency, Munirathna of RR Nagar, Somasekhar from Yashwanthpura and K Gopalaiah from Mahalakshmi layout, who resigned from the MLA position and decided to join the BJP.

Bengaluru: Eight dissident MLAs of the ruling coalition government will be visiting Bengaluru to meet Speaker Ramesh Kumar at around 10 am tomorrow from Mumbai. They would visit the Speaker to clarify him as he had said that their resignation letters were not in prescribed format.  

New Delhi: As the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka plunges into more trouble, the Congress Tuesday rushed senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and B K Hariprasad to Bengaluru to solve the differences.