A 47-year-old cook from Odisha was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting minor boys and recording videos of the act on his mobile phone, police said on Wednesday.

The Karnataka BJP has constituted a fact-finding committee consisting of senior party leaders which will visit the violence-hit area of the district headquarters town of Shivamogga on Thursday.

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday asked the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to release the report of the caste census conducted in the State.

The 'Namma Metro' Green Line services were disrupted between Yeshwantpur and Mantri Square Sampige Road on Tuesday morning, due to technical glitch on the line, with the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) apologizing to the metro passengers for the inconvenience caused.

The Shivamogga District Superintendent of Police GK Mithun Kumar has declared as fake the news going viral on social media that a Muslim youngster had died in a police encounter in Ragigudda in the wake of the recent stone-pelting incident in town on Sunday.

Twenty-four cases have been registered and 60 people arrested so far in connection with the violence that broke out during a religious procession in the district headquarters town of Shivamogga, police said on Tuesday.

A 26-year-old man from HRS Colony in Gangavathi town of Koppal district surrendered before the police on Tuesday, after murdering his elder brother, following a fight between the brothers.

As a 'special treat' for its staff members on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on Monday, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) launched 'Gandhi Point', a canteen to provide the staff food at discount rates, with Karnataka Minister for Transport Ramalinga Reddy inaugurating the café at the Depot 4 in Jayanagar.