New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India on Monday while hearing pleas against Karnataka High Court's judgment upholding the ban on Hijab in educational institutions asked the Karnataka government how wearing Hijab was violating discipline in schools.

Torrential rains overnight brought the capital city of Bengaluru to its knees on Monday as several areas were inundated, and water-logging on roads including arterial ones hit traffic flow while boats and tractors were pressed into service in certain parts.

A local court here on Monday ordered the chief pontiff of Murugha Math Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, who is facing charges of sexual abuse of minor girls, to be sent to judicial custody till September 14.

Barely a couple of days after an audio clip of a conversation containing his name went viral, Basavasiddalinga Swamiji, chief pontiff of the Guru Madivaleshwara Mutt in Neginahala, Bailahongala taluk, has been found dead at the Mutt.

Naasih Public School, accredited by the National Institute of Open Schooling, was formally inaugurated today.

Bengaluru: Karnataka on Sunday reported 600 fresh cases of COVID-19 and two deaths, taking the total infected and fatalities till date to 40,54,746 and 40,205 respectively, the Health Department said.

Hubballi: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said senior and experienced lawyers would be appointed in the legal team of the State to argue in the Supreme Court over the border row with Maharashtra.

Bengaluru: The Mysuru-based non-government organisation, which helped book a case against the chief pontiff of Murugha Math in the minor girls' sexual abuse case, on Sunday demanded that a CBI or a court-monitored inquiry should be conducted against the seer as some people in the administration were colluding to protect him.