A case of alleged sexual abuse of a male party worker against JD(S) MLC Suraj Revanna has been handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for probe, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Sunday.

In a tragic incident reported from Kalaburagi, a police constable took his own life by hanging himself at a farm on Udanur Road in the city last night.

In a significant jolt to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 100-day agenda to start mining iron ore in Devadari Hills of Sandur in Ballari, Karnataka’s Minister for Forests and Environment, Eshwar Khandre, on Saturday ordered a halt to the leasing of 401.5761 hectares for iron ore mining in the Devadari Hills.

JD(S) MLC Suraj Revanna -- the brother of former MP Prajwal Revanna who is facing allegations of sexually abusing several women -- was arrested on Sunday on charges of "unnatural offences" against him, police sources said.

Kolar (Karnataka): A hermit, who headed the Ananda Marga ashram at Malur in Kolar district, was beaten to death allegedly over a property dispute on Saturday, police said.

Bengaluru: The BJP on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the ruling Congress in Karnataka, saying the Lok Sabha election results in the state have proved the people have stood up against the latter's 'misrule' in just one year.

Bengaluru: A complaint has been lodged against the aides of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, who was arrested along with 16 others in connection with Renukaswamy murder, for threatening the eye-witnesses in the case, police said in its remand note presented in a court here on Saturday.

Davanagere: The residents of Gollarahatti in Chikkammanahatti village, Jagalur taluk, caught and handed to the police a 30-year-old man who attempted to rape a married woman in the village and stabbed her with a knife when she resisted.