Various organizations extended their support to the nationwide transport workers strike on August 7 demanding withdrawal of Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill-2017. 

Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy directed the authorities to desilt 527 tanks in the limits of five districts under 527 tanks to enhance their water storage capacity.

Two daily wage workers died of suffocation while cleaning the newly constructed manhole of an UGD on NT Road in the city on Monday afternoon.

Four persons of the same family drowned as the car in which they were travelling plunged into a canal near Mantikoppalu in Periyapatna taluk on Monday.

Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader said that the government has decided to construct 60,000 houses in the state under the Chief Minister's Housing Scheme and among them, 22000 houses would be reserved for north Karnataka.

Two persons died in two separate accidents in the city limits on Monday.

A bike rider died on the spot in a bike-lorry collision in front of the Vidyarthi Bhavan here on Monday.

NR Vishu Kumar on Monday took charge as the Director of Information and Public Relations Department.

Primarily an officer of the Department of Information and Public Relations, NR Vishu Kumar served as the Director of the Kannada and Culture department.