Just a day ahead of the voting for the Karnataka Assembly election, the World Lingayat Mahasabha appealed its community to reject BJP and RSS and support the Congress in the election.

Noted writer and critic Giraddy Govindaraj passed away due to cardiac arrest here on Friday. Soon after suffering heart attack, he was rushed to a hospital. But he breathed his last on the way to hospital. He was 79.

The first ACMM court has extended the judicial custody of Mohmmed Nalapad, son of MLA NA Harris, arrested on charges of assaulting Vidwat, till May 25.  The judicial custody of Nalapad and other accused is supposed to end on May 11. But the judge who heard the arguments through video conference, announced the verdict

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has interrogated one more accused in related to journalist Gauri Lankesh murder.

MP and BJP candidate B Sriramulu said that he has no relationship with the alleged deal of Rs 160 crore between Supreme Court Chief Justice’s son-in-law and former minister Janardhana Reddy to give verdict in favour of Reddy in Obalapuram mining company case.

As a last minute ditch to the Congress, IT sleuths have conducted raids on the houses and offices of Congress candidates including Bidar south constituency candidate Ashok Kheni, Karwar constituency candidate Sathish Shail, Dharwad Constituency candidate Vinay Kulkarni and others on Friday.

Activist, youth leader and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mewani spoke to Varthabharati in detail on various burning issues in the country including Karnataka Assembly election, national politics and administration of Narendra Modi-led NDA government, attacks, sexual harassments and exploitations on dalits, backward classes, minorities and women.

Director General of Police and IG Neelamani N Raju said that the police department has taken all precautionary measures and security arrangements to ensure free and fair Assembly election in the state tomorrow.