The police have been trying to establish contact with the relatives of 76-year-old person who was stranded like an orphan on Pune-Bengaluru national highway on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.

In a gruesome incident, a youth was hacked to death by miscreants at Vidya Nagar in Harihara taluk on Saturday morning.

The identity of the victim is not yet established.

Senior journalist and State Media Academy awardee YN Joshi passes away here on Saturday. He was 86.

He was suffering from illness and was undergoing treatment at Vivekananda hospital. He breathed his last at the hospital on Saturday at 6.45am, according to family sources.

Making an emotional appeal to voters in the party stronghold of Mandya, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday said he is living to serve the people of the state, who are his biggest asset.

"As the NDA government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has made the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) dysfunctional; the Congress party will knock the doors of the Supreme Court and initiate a legal battle," stated K.C. Venugopal, general secretary and state supremo of Congress.

Actress Shruti Hariharan lodged a complaint with the High Grounds Police against Arjun Sarja's close friend Prashant saying that he has threatened to kill her.

"Let's see if there are blessings of the people in the next elections," was senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah's refrain Friday when asked if he wants to become Karnataka chief minister again even though he asserted he has no such "greed".

A man in Maralingana Doddi village here killed his own brother allegedly due to property dispute, said police on Thursday.