Two young bike riders died on the spot after a state transport bus collided head-on with their bike on stretch between Kadaganchi and Ladachincholi in Alanda taluk, Kalaburagi district, on Wednesday.

Stating that the BJP has no connection with the assembly seat cheating case in which Hindutva activist Chaitra Kundapura is involved, former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said the party would seriously think about such elements misusing its image.

Hindutva activist Chaithra Kundapura, who had been detained in Udupi on Wednesday for having duped a businessman from Byndoor in Udupi district and a leader of the BJP of crores of rupees after promising that they would be given BJP tickets for the last Assembly elections, and six other accused in the case have been handed over to the CCB Division officers.

In a tragic incident in Malavalli town of Mandya district, an eight-year-old boy was killed and his mother grievously injured after a car hit them on Tuesday night, after a car hit them on Tuesday night, when they were returning home from the tuition that the boy had attended.

The Karnataka Police have registered an FIR against a Hindi news channel and its Consulting Editor on allegations of spreading misinformation about a commercial vehicle subsidy scheme of the State government for minorities, officials said on Wednesday.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said the state will once again file a petition before the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) expressing its inability to release Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu.

A tragic accident occurred on Wednesday morning at the Nandikur-Mudarangadi Junction along the Karkala-Padubidri State Highway, resulting in the loss of a 32-year-old motorcycle rider's life.

Former Karnataka Chief Ministers -- B S Yediyurappa and Basavaraj Bommai of the BJP and H D Kumaraswamy of the JD(S) -- will not be attending the "special emergency meeting" called by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday to discuss the issue of releasing Cauvery river water to neighbouring Tamil Nadu.