Bengaluru: Adding insult to injury, people managing a crematorium in flood-ravaged Kodagu district allegedly demanded Rs 8,000 from a family for the cremation of their two daughters killed in a landslip on Saturday.

Four more people have died in rain-related incidents in Karnataka, taking the toll to 31 on Sunday as the flood situation remained grim in the state.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government Saturday declared 80 Taluks in 17 districts flood-affected even as the death toll went up to 26 and thousands of people were rendered homeless.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Saturday sought Rs 3,000-crore aid from the central government for relief works in the state's 14 flood-hit districts in the northwest and coastal regions, battered by heavy monsoon rains and strong surface winds since August 1.

Bengaluru: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday that insurance firms would be directed to pay compensation to farmers who suffered losses in the floods in Karnataka.

Bengaluru: Assuring the flood victims of doing everything to protect and rehabilitate them, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Saturday added that he will immediately take measures and do whatever it take to rehabilitate lives of flood victims in the state.

The Karnataka government on Saturday pegged the damage inflicted by torrential downpour and subsequent floods in the state at Rs 6000 crore even as the toll from various rain-related incidents stood at 24.

With no let-up in rains, the flood situation in Karnataka remained grim on Saturday as most of the rivers in the state were in spate.