The Karnataka government has drawn a blueprint to waive crop loans of farmers from state-run and co-operative banks in the southern state, an official statement said.

The lorry owners strike being conducted across the country demanding toll-free movement, cutting of diesel price and other demands entered 6th day on Wednesday, affecting supply of essential commodities. 

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths raided on the houses of two officers including a joint director of a department on Wednesday and unearthed property disproportionate to their known sources of income worth crores.

THE NAME of Gauri Lankesh was No. 2 on one of two lists with a total of 34 names, who were marked in 2016 for murder in a diary recovered from a key suspect linked to a radical Hindutva group, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Karnataka Police has found. Lankesh was shot dead outside her house a year later, on September 5, 2017.

With a superstitious belief that they would get salvation if they drowned in Kapila River, an aged couple jumped into the river to commit suicide at Nanjangud on Tuesday. But in the incident, Nagaraj (70) died and his wife Kalavati (60) was shocked. She was admitted to Nanjangud government hospital for treatment.

One person died and three others sustained serious injuries when a mini goods lorry filled with chicks collided with a car at the Ammanakatte cross near Balapadamanti Koppalu on Mandya road here on Tuesday.

The state government has decided to distribute gas cylinder, stove and regulators to one lakh beneficiaries under CM’s Anila Bhagya scheme in the next two months.

An astrologer died when his motorbike fell down after losing its control in the KR Puram traffic police station limits in the city on Tuesday. The deceased is identified as Vinod (24) of TC Palya of the city.