Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) President Raghu Ram Bhat and a few other office bearers moved the Karnataka High Court on Friday seeking to quash the FIR filed against them in the Chinnaswamy stadium stampede case.

The body of a newborn baby girl was found near the Kattehadi community hall in Nanjanayapatna panchayat limits of Kushalnagar taluk.

Security forces arrested eight militants belonging to various proscribed outfits from Manipur’s Imphal West and Bishnupur districts, police said on Friday.

Preventive measures in Bengaluru seem to be yielding positive results, with the city reporting less than half the dengue cases so far this year compared to the same period in 2024.

Officials of RCB and event management firm DNA entertainment private limited were taken into custody on Friday in connection with the stampede outside Chinnaswamy stadium that claimed lives of 11 people and injured over 50, police sources said on Friday.

 As Karnataka celebrated Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s first IPL victory in 18 years, a joyous occasion turned into tragedy when a stampede broke out at the celebratory event organised at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, claiming at least 11 lives and leaving several injured.

The Karnataka government on Thursday appointed senior IPS officer Seemanth Kumar Singh as the new Police Commissioner of Bengaluru.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday ordered the suspension of Bengaluru police commissioner and several senior police officials in connection with the stampede in front of Chinnaswamy Stadium here, which left 11 people dead.