A passenger badly beat up an on-duty conductor for not giving the change of six rupees in the Indi police station limits in the district on Friday.

The state government will extend its complete support to Tibetans who are living in the state, said Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.

The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Friday regretted blaming former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and thanked him for sheltering thousands of exiled Tibetans after they fled from their motherland.

People experienced the light tremors for some time in some places at Kogre village in Koppa taluk on Friday. At 10 am, some of the places were shakes with a loud sound in the village. Villagers said the because of the intensity of the earthquake, utensils in the houses were fell down and they were shocked. They said they have experienced the same situation on Thursday and around two months back. Because of this repeated tremors, people got panic, they said.

Karnataka is rushing Rs 10 crore worth relief materials to the neighbouring flood-hit Kerala following heavy monsoon rains, said an official statement on Thursday.

"Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy directed state Chief Secretary T.M. Vijaya Bhaskar to rush relief materials and a team of doctors to Kerala, reeling under heavy rains and flash floods," said the statement.

Sri Rama Sene president Pramod Mutalik said that the Sene has organized a Hindu advocates convention at Pai Vista Hall at Gandhi Bazar in the city on August 12.

District Crime Branch on Thursday arrested three women on charges of kidnapping minor girls and pushing them to prostitution and rescued a minor girl. With this, the police busted a flesh trade racket which was active in the district.

Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that the Cabinet has decided to waive off current loan up to Rs 1 lakh availed from cooperative societies till July 10, 2018.