Bengaluru: Prithvi Reddy has once again been appointed as the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Karnataka state president while retired IPS officer and former Bengaluru police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao and Vijay Sharma are the state vice-presidents.

Bengaluru: Some Veerashaiva-Lingayat seers on Sunday appealed to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to survey the Peer Pasha Bangla' in Basavakalyan in Bidar district, claiming that it was the original Anubhava Mantapa', the sacred seat of the founder of Lingayat sect and 12th century social reformer Basaveshwara.

The Special Public Prosecutor in the murder case of journalist Gauri Lankesh filed a list of witnesses before a Bengaluru City Civil and Sessions Court.

Bengaluru: Karnataka on Saturday reported 222 fresh COVID-19 cases taking the total infections to 39,53,058, the state health department said.

Chitradurga: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday ruled out constituting a new textbook review committee amid a row over the controversial tweets and excluding the writings of intellectuals by Karnataka Textbook Review Committee chief Rohith Chakrateertha many years ago.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has refused a petition seeking to quash the case of bigamy filed against a 76-year-old man who admitted that he is still married to three women.

Security has been heightened in Srirangapatna, the erstwhile capital of 18th century ruler Tipu Sultan in the district, following Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) call to perform puja at the Jamia mosque, claiming that it was built after razing a Hanuman temple.

In an accident that reportedly occurred on the national highway near Begur, a car crashed into the road divider after the driver of the vehicle lost control resulting in a sequence of accidents where the out-of-control car then crashed into a Tempo Traveller and a bullet bike causing the deaths of two passengers in the car at Kunigal Taluk early morning on Saturday. Apart from that, 10 other people have been injured in the accident, it is learned.