As the Diwali festival is fast approaching, the Minto hospital is preparing to ensure 24x7 emergency treatment for the victims who suffer injuries in cracker burst, with a slogan that ‘Precaution Is Better than the Cure’.

Former prime minister and JDS supremo H.D Deve Gowda who will return from abroad on October 28, will campaign in favour of Congress-JDS candidate Anitha Kumaraswamy in Ramanagar constituency.

Unaccounted cash of Rs 11 lakh was Saturday seized by election flying squad personnel in poll-bound Ballari Lok Sabha constituency from a passenger travelling in a government bus.

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.