State Congress incharge KC Venugopal said that the BJP’s money power would not work in Karnataka. After holding a meeting with Coordination Committee president and former chief minister Siddaramaiah, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and working president Eshwar Khandre at the Kumara Krupa Guest House here on Sunday, he said that though the central government misused the central agencies like Income Tax and Enforcement Directorate, it’s money power would not have any impact on the state politics in Karnataka. The BJP would not succeed in its efforts, he said.

KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao said that as the Ballary MLAs were in regular touch with him, there was no need to speak to them every now and then.

AICC general secretary and Karnataka incharge KC Venugopal on Sunday met former chief minister Siddaramaiah at the latter's residence here and held discussion.

In the history of judiciary of the state, Kolar additional district and sessions court judge made a history by awarding death sentence to five rape accused here on Saturday.

Visiting Belagavi for the first time after becoming President in 2017 on Saturday, Ram Nath Kovind recalled that Swami Vivekananda had got the idea of participating in the World Parliament of Religions in 1893 at Chicago in the US in this northwest city of Karnataka, about 500 km from Bengaluru.

As many as 17 students and a Physical Education teacher fell ill after drinking milk at a school in Niluvagilu village in the taluk on Saturday.

The Assam police on Saturday unearthed a case in which Assam-based workers murdered and buried an Assamese man, who had come to work along with them at a coffee estate here. The accused allegedly went to Assam after committing the crime.

Responding to MP Pratap Simha’s statement on a social networking site, District BJP leader M.B Devayya opined “It would be better for the party as well as for the nation, if Pratap Simha, who contested the Lok Sabha polls by someone else’ gracefulness and became the MP; drops charges against me.”