Bengaluru: A woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase at Chandapura on the outskirts of the city was strangled to death, the police said on Thursday.

In an incident reported Boodugumpa village of the district, a woman, Gangamma Donne, was allegedly hacked to death by her husband when he was in a drunken state on Thursday.

Along with causing waterlogging and danger of inundation of houses, the heavy showers in Bengaluru have hit its power infrastructure on a large scale, with 1,465 electricity poles and 190 transformers being damaged this month.

Farmers from Mandya district have reportedly filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Karnataka High Court challenging the state government’s decision to transform Brindavan Garden, located at the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dam, into a Disneyland-like space. The petitioners argue that the project poses serious environmental threats and undermines the interests of the farming community.

As the ED continued searches at institutions linked to Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara in connection with a money laundering probe tied to gold smuggling case, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar came out strongly in support of his cabinet colleague, calling him a "clean and honest man".

Following veteran Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq’s historic win at the International Booker Prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi), bookstores across Bengaluru are witnessing a sharp rise in demand for both the English translation and the original Kannada edition.

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday assured full cooperation with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its ongoing raids at the educational institutions linked to him, as part of a money laundering investigation related to an alleged gold smuggling racket.

A new study has revealed that ten districts in Karnataka face "very high" heat risks, with Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Uttara Kannada topping the list. Notably, no district in the state is classified as low-risk, highlighting the growing threat of heatwaves across Karnataka.