Bengaluru: DCPs and ACPs of the respective areas will be held accountable if any untoward incident takes place during the Ganesh festival, stated Deputy Chief Minister Dr. G Parameshwar.

Four persons lost their lives after a car collided with a BMTC bus in HAL traffic police station limit on Wednesday, sources said.

Bengaluru: 15 BJP MLAs have expressed their willingness to join the Congress, stated Doddaballapura Congress MLA Venkataramanayya.

Shivamogga: A young man killed after incidentally coming in contact with live electric wire while arranging power supply to a Ganapati Pendal at Yadehalli village near Holehonnur in Bhadravati taluk in the district.

Automobile mechanic Vasudev Suryavanshi, 29, who was arrested on Sunday by Maharashtra ATS for alleged links with a radical Hindutva group involved in the accumulation of illegal arms, has been identified as an individual referred to as “Mechanic’’ in the diary of a key suspect in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh.

Disappointed by the interference of Minister DK Shivakumar favouring MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar in the Belagavi district politics, Municipal Administration Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi is said to have complained against DK Shivakumar and Hebbalkar to KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar.

A youth died on the spot when lightning struck him at the Udusalamma temple near Dwaralu on national highway 48 on Tuesday evening.

A rowdy sheeter was hacked to death due to old enmity near Surya Comfort in the city on Tuesday at 9.45 pm. The deceased is identified as Market Giri. It is suspected that he was killed due to old enmity.