City corporation former mayor Ravi Kumar alias Gadda Ravi was hacked to death here on Sunday morning.

The incident happened near Batawadi in the city. The Miscreants beat him on his head with lethal weapons. It is said that a group of seven Miscreants who came in a vehicle killed him. Police sources also said that Ravi kumar was a rowdy sheeter in Kyatasandra police station limits. He won in the last election held for the city corporation.

As dissent has erupted in BJP against the party’s Bengaluru in-charge R. Ashok following the party’s failure to get BBMP’s control, the pressure is mounting to replace him, and a few leaders in BJP have decided to complain party high command.

A boy child died after coming into the contact of a snapped live wire from a motor. The incident took place in Ammathi village of Virajpet taluk.

Eight people, including Yenepoya Medical College, have been chosen for the state government’s Senior Citizen Service Award, informed Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Jayamala.

Police officials at Malavalli Police Station in Mandya district of Karnataka are no strangers to witnessing and investigating gory crimes. But the officers on Saturday flinched when a man nonchalantly arrived at the police station on a motorcycle and walked in with the severed head of another man in his hand.

Bengaluru: BBMP new Mayor Gangambike Mallikarjuna and Deputy Mayor Rameela Umashankar met chief minister Siddaramaiah at his residence Cauvery in the city.

Alleging that Lok Sabha Member Pratap Simha has indirectly supported the candidates of other political parties to win the Assembly and City Corporation elections by neglecting honest party workers, some of the Vokkaliga BJP leaders have reportedly revolted against the MP.