The Police here have arrested the Moodigere town unit BJP Yuva Morcha President M V Anil on the charges of instigating the suicide of Dhanya (20), a first year B.Com student of a first grade college in the town. Dhanya had ended her life on January 6, Saturday. Incidentally, the accused is said to be an influential man who is also known to Mysuru- Kodagu MP Pratap Sinha and MLA C T Ravi.

A provocative and at the same time a controversial statement has come from the Taluk Bajrangdal Convenor Avinash. "If Hindu outfits take up machetes then they are capable of  eliminating the Muslims here in no time,"  Avinash   said while addressing the VHP and Bajrangdal protestors who staged a Rasta Roko  at the Lions Circle here condemning  Deepak Rao murder at Katipalla near Mangaluru.

Income Tax raids on a hair exporting company in  north Karnataka has   exposed   a staggering Rs 65 crore worth of undeclared assets, informed  IT officials of Karnataka and Goa.

Hens at a chicken  stall in Bengaluru  have contracted Bird Flu. Even the NIHSD  Laboratory has confirmed H5N1 virus in the dead hens causing  some amount of panic among members of the general public.

The first baby girl born on New Year Day  is extremely lucky. She has earned a reward of Rs 5 lakhs which was handed over to her by BBMP Mayor Sampath Raj at the D Nagaraj Maternity Hospital at Bashyam Circle in the city on January 1, Monday. The Mayor had earlier made an announcement  that a cash prize will be awarded to the first baby girl born on New Year.

Bengaluru: "The BJP  leaders are raising a clamour that 22 Sangh Parivar activists have been murdered in the state. But eight of them were killed owing to personal enmity," said  State Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy.

Bengaluru :  Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has taken a jibe at BJP National President Amit Shah by stating that  "We have the capability to douse the fire which  Shah may  ignite  by  vesting the state any number of times.

Bengaluru : " I do not have any political aspirations. But, if pressurised  I am ready to  plunge into  politics.  It  has  its own responsibilities and I would not like to shrug them off," said noted multi-lingual actor Prakash Rai.

He  was speaking after receiving the Man of the year Award conferred on him by the Press Club here on December 31, Sunday.