An FIR was filed at the Srirangapatna police station after a participant in a Hanuma Jayanti programme of Hindu Jagran Vedike not only forcibly replaced a green flag atop a house with a saffron flag but also destroyed things in the house.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday termed "Join CFI (Campus Front of India)" graffiti found in different locations at Shiralakoppa in Shivamogga district as a "desperate act," after a ban on the organisation, and has assured prompt action against those behind it.

Social activist M B Panchaksharaiah has said that a complaint has been filed with the Central and State Election Commissions in the background of voters’ names being omitted from the list in the Tumkur City Vidhana Sabha constituency without prior notice.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said that he will ask his Maharashtra counterpart Eknath Shinde not to send his Ministers to Belagavi, amid the raging border dispute between both the state, as it may disrupt the law and order situation in the border district.

A special vaccination drive to inoculate an estimated 48 lakh children aged between 1-15 against Japanese Encephalitis (JE) will be held in Karnataka from December 5 for a period of three weeks, State Health Minister K Sudhakar said on Sunday.

Two children drowned after they accidentally fell into a pit of water in a field in Hunashala PB village of Basavana Bagewadi taluk on Saturday.

One of the two boys who were injured in the city three days ago as they came in contact with a high tension electric wire while trying to catch a pigeon died on Sunday morning.

Raichur: A youngster from Sirivara in the district is missing, and a death note purportedly written by him has been found wherein he has accused a local police sub-inspector of allegedly harassing him.