Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya seeking urgent supply of anti-TB drugs to the state.

BENGALURU: A chartered accountant has been arrested for allegedly duping 11 private companies by giving them fake electronic bank guarantees worth Rs 168 crore, Bengaluru police said on Wednesday. The accused, 45-year-old Noida-based Ashish Roy alias Ashish Saxena, was detained by the immigration officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi after he returned from Kuwait, they said.

The Mangaluru Muslim Youth Council (MMYC) has demanded a thorough investigation into the killing of three individuals, Shahul (45), Ishak (55), and Siddique (34), whose bodies were found in a burnt car at Kuchchangi lake in Tumkur district. The MMYC urged the state government to hand over the case to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Five Congress legislators on Wednesday threatened to resign over the issue of Lok Sabha ticket to senior party leader and Minister K H Muniyappa's son-in-law Chikka Peddanna to contest from Kolar in the coming Lok Sabha elections, bringing into open the divisions in the outfit.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday said the Congress will decide about making him the Chief Minister in future, bringing to the fore again the issue of leadership change.

BJP member Tejaswini Gowda has resigned from her seat in the Legislative Council.

Dr. Gurulinga Kapase, a distinguished literary figure, breathed his last late on Tuesday night at a private hospital in the city. He was 96 years old.

Lokayukta officials conducted raids at 60 locations across various districts in the state on Wednesday, targeting officials suspected of misappropriation.