Bengaluru: A group of advocates met Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday, urging him to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) monitored by a sitting or retired judge of the Supreme Court or High Court to probe cases of disappearances, unnatural deaths, and sexual assaults in Dharmasthala over the past two decades.

Madikeri: In view of continuous heavy rainfall in Kodagu district, Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu has announced a holiday for all educational institutions on Thursday, July 17.

Bengaluru: Days after Russian woman Nina Kutina was taken into custody for living in a cave deep inside the forest in Karnataka’s Gokarna with her two daughters, her ex-husband, an Israeli citizen, is demanding shared custody of their daughters, saying he wants to be a father to them.

Bengaluru, Jul 16 (PTI): A 48-year-old Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) employee died by suicide after he allegedly fell prey to a "digital arrest" scam, losing Rs 11 lakh, police said on Wednesday.

Bengaluru: Reacting strongly to the FIR registered against him in connection with the murder of rowdy-sheeter 'Biklu' Shiva, BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj has denied any involvement in the case and questioned the police's actions.

Bengaluru: Karnataka's Minister for Large and Medium Industries, M.B. Patil, has dismissed concerns over Andhra Pradesh's minister Nara Lokesh inviting industrialists to relocate, asserting confidently that no entrepreneur will abandon Karnataka on such invitations alone.

BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj is among five individuals booked by police in eastern Bengaluru following the murder of a 40-year-old history-sheeter on Tuesday evening.

In a move aimed at making movie tickets more affordable, the Karnataka government has issued a draft notification proposing a cap on movie ticket prices at Rs 200 across all theatres in the state, including multiplexes.