A man died by suicide on Monday after allegedly shooting himself with a revolver over a domestic dispute, police said.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday instructed police officers to take strict action to prevent any untoward incidents during New Year celebrations here.

Nearly 5,000 patients in Karnataka are currently on the waiting list for kidney transplants, highlighting a widening gap between demand and availability of donor organs in the state. According to data from the Health and Family Welfare Department, 4,922 patients were registered for kidney transplants as of December 2025, even as only about 300 such procedures were carried out during the year.

Ahead of New Year celebrations, two persons have been arrested in separate cases, and narcotics and cash worth about Rs 2.50 crore seized from them, police said on Monday.

A 27-year-old delivery executive was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a woman at a shopping mall in Bengaluru during Christmas celebrations, police said on Monday.

The Karnataka government’s move to divert over ₹400 crore from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) for non-environmental works has hit a legal hurdle, after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) took suo motu cognisance of the issue.

A case has been registered against BJP MLA Sharanu Salagar in connection with a complaint over a Rs 99 lakh cheque that was dishonoured, for allegedly failing to return money he had taken as a loan during the 2023 Assembly elections, police said on Monday.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday alleged that the BJP-led Union government’s decision to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rural and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-G RAM G) Act was not approved by the Union Cabinet.