The Forest department personnel at the Maldare–Lingapura check post in Kodagu district have discovered the body of a woman in a car during a routine vehicle inspection, police sources said.

The Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (KPYCC) on Saturday staged a protest here alleging large-scale “vote chori” (vote theft) in elections across various states and demanded accountability from the Election Commission of India and the Centre over alleged electoral irregularities.

 Karnataka has proposed a new Information Technology Policy for 2025–2030, offering extensive financial and non-financial incentives aimed at accelerating investments, strengthening innovation and expanding the state's tech footprint beyond Bengaluru.

The 8th edition of the School Cinema International Film Festival 2025 began on Friday, marking the start of what organisers call the "world’s largest children’s film festival," held in celebration of Children’s Day.

 The police on Friday said the fire in sugarcane-laden vehicles in this district was premeditated, as the miscreants had brought petrol and other inflammable substances to carry out the arson.

The opposition BJP in Karnataka on Friday predicted that the "power tussle" within the ruling Congress party is likely to intensify in the coming days.

Congratulating the NDA, which is set to sweep the Bihar assembly polls, JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Friday said the false narratives of the opposition have been defeated, as he called on them to come out of their "delusions".

 The CID probing the vote theft allegations in Aland segment in 2023 assembly polls has arrested a man from West Bengal's Nadia district, sources in the department said on Friday.