India's tech hub Bengaluru on Tuesday joined 13 other cities, including London, to clean up toxic air and check pollution in urban areas the world over.

BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa appealed those who have been fighting for separate North Karnataka state to drop the demand as the BJP would fight inside and outside the Houses for the development of the north Karnataka.

A PU student committed suicide by hanging himself in classroom at Mandavya Excellence PU College on the outskirts of the city.

Veteran Congress leader, political stalwart, front leader of Socialist Movement in the state and former minister Kagodu Thimmappa, on Tuesday, declared retirement from the active politics.

The seers’ protest demanding a comprehensive development of north Karnataka has begun outside Suvarna Soudha in the city.

A mini tractor and a hut were gutted in fire due to an electric short circuit at Naduvalapalya near Gubbi taluk this morning.

The hut engulfed when the fire broke out from a transformer near the hut. The intensity of the fire was such that a nearby-parked tractor too came in the folds of the fire flames. Luckily, no one was present in the hut during the incident. The fire tenders arrived at the spot and doused the flames.

A two-wheeler rider died on the spot when a jeep ran over him after he fell down on the road, near Neralekere Gate in Nagamangala taluk on Monday.

In a shocking incident, a mother and son were united even in the death at Agrahara in the city on Monday.