Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader said that Mangaluru-Bengaluru national highway Shiradi ghat stretch was repaired and it was decided to invite Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and former union minister Oscar Fernandes for the inauguration of the road.

The NIA Special Court of the city on Monday convicted three accused who admitted to their involvement in bomb blast near Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru in 2010, to 7 year imprisonment.

As the magnitude of the earthquake occurred in Kodagu district was less than 1, it was not recorded in the Richter scale, clarified senior geologist Reshma.  

Ambulances across Karnataka need not wait for a VIP convoy to pass for rushing patients to hospitals for emergency treatment, a top city police official said on Monday.

The Punarvasu rain has been lashing out at in the district causing widespread damage to the houses and properties besides landslides and uprooting of trees in several places.

With the rains wreaking havoc in several places in Western Ghats range in the district, major rivers are flowing above the danger mark. Normal life was paralysed in Thirthahalli and Hosanagr taluks. Amidst this, a school girl washed away in flood water in a stream in Thirthahalli taluk on Monday.

Depressed over not paying him his salary for the last six months, a civic worker of BBMP committed suicide by consuming poison in Vyalikaval police station limits in the city on Sunday.

To take up relief works for the damages caused by the rains, the government has released Rs 6.79 crore and Rs 6.05 crore to Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts respectively. The government would think of providing a special package to find permanent solution to rain related damages after discussing with the respective deputy commissioners, said Revenue Minister RV Deshpande.