BJP state President and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa said that some vested interests have conspired to float fight for separate Lingayat religion tag just to avoid chief minister post to him.

Politics is never stagnant water. At any time, the Congress-JDS alliance government can fall. Yeddyurappa may become Chief Minister again, said Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda.

Depressed over dowry harassment, a woman with her two-year-old son committed suicide by setting herself and her son on fire at Mahadevapura in Mysuru.

In a quid-pro-quo, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday agreed to transfer 210 acres of defence land in Bengaluru to the city's civic body for 10 infrastructure projects, stuck due to space constraints, an official said.

A fire mishap took place at a paint factory located on the outskirts of the city in Jigani Industrial area.

The fire broke out at the Colour Tech Products Pvt Ltd factory located at the industrial area in Jigani, due to which goods worth several lakhs of rupees were gutted. Fortunately no casualty took place. It has been suspected that a short circuit might have led to the incident.

KR Pete tahsildar K Mahesh Chandra who was missing near Chikkavaddaragudi village in the taluk in a mysterious way on Thursday late night, was found on Friday.

SP Rohini Sepat Katoch said that the police have arrested the accused in the SSLC student Rakshitha murder case.

Six members of the same family are missing in Mahadevapura police station limits in the city.