Karnataka's school education and literacy minister, Madhu Bangarappa, announced on Friday that state board schools will not hold common assessments for classes 5, 8, 9, and 11 this academic year. Instead, summative assessment-2 will be conducted for classes 5, 8, and 9. This decision follows the state’s recent withdrawal of exam notifications in three districts, a move that came after a reprimand from the Supreme Court during hearings on appeals against the Karnataka High Court’s decision to uphold the exams last year.

BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal has been booked for making defamatory remarks against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan.

Bengaluru: The VV Puram police have apprehended a suspect linked to a bomb threat email sent to a college in the city. The accused, identified as 48-year-old Dipanjan Mitra, hails from the Darjeeling district in West Bengal.

Bengaluru: Legislative Council Opposition leader Chalavadi Narayanaswamy stated that the MUDA site allotment scam must be given over to a CBI investigation. Only this could bring out the real facts, he said. He was speaking to the press people at Jagannatha Bhavana, BJP state office, in Bengaluru on Friday.

A labourer from Andhra Pradesh allegedly killed his wife and another man before hanging himself at a building under construction at Konanakunte here, police sources said on Friday.

K. Venkatesh, Minister of Animal Husbandry and Sericulture in Karnataka, said the milk procurement price will be hiked by Rs 5 per litre. The current procurement price stands at Rs 33 per litre.

A Bengaluru resident has recounted a distressing encounter during the recent heavy rains, stating that he has never witnessed such severe weather in his five years living in the city. In an anonymous post on the social media platform Grapevine, he detailed the chaos caused by the relentless downpour.

The Belagavi city police have launched an investigation into the death of businessman Santosh Padmannavar, whose body was exhumed for an autopsy following concerns raised by his daughter regarding the circumstances of his demise.