Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra on Wednesday hit out at the Congress government over alleged medicine shortages, large-scale irregularities and disruption of services in the health department.

A Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) was caught red-handed by Lokayukta officials while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 in Kadur taluk of the district.

Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra on Wednesday lashed out at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, accusing him of "misleading" the public on government recruitment figures and "failing" to address the concerns of unemployed youth in the state.

In a major operation on drug trafficking, the anti-narcotics wing of the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) Police arrested a 44-year-old woman who was allegedly hand-in-glove with a Nigerian man in supplying drugs.

A statement by former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai linking Jammu and Kashmir’s Ranji Trophy match in Hubballi to the abrogation of Article 370 has drawn criticism on social media.

The body of a 29-year-old man was found stuffed inside a bag and dumped along the national highway near the ITC godown on Gadag Road under the Hubballi Rural Police Station limits early Wednesday morning.

ASHA workers in Karnataka have warned of launching an indefinite strike from February 27, protesting a health department order to rationalise the workforce and alleging that long-pending demands have not been addressed.

Concerns have been raised about the nearly one crore people who were not counted and the potential impact of this gap on the panel's recommendations, with the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, led by R Madhusudan Naik, expected to submit its report on the social and educational survey soon.