Police have busted a child-lifting gang operating in the district hospital and rescued a one-and-a-half-month-old baby within 24 hours of the abduction, officials said here on Sunday.

The toll in the Ganesha procession accident in Hassan district has gone up to 10 on Saturday, police sources said.

 Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Saturday, insisted that building a casteless society is the essence of the Constitution.

A 45-year-old woman pedestrian was killed when a goods vehicle ran over her in Cottonpete area of Bengaluru, police said on Saturday.

In response to a plea by former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna to transfer the criminal cases filed against him that are pending for hearing to another sessions court, the Chief Justice of the Bengaluru City Civil and Sessions Courts has issued a notice to the prosecution to do so.

In an incident reported from near the LIC office here on Friday night, an argument among youngsters over allegedly a trivial issue intensified and led to the stabbing of one of the youngsters.

The nine victims of the horrific accident that occurred during the procession for Ganesh idol immersion in Mosale Hosahalli in Hassan taluk on Friday night have been identified.

District In-charge Minister Krishna Byre Gowda has said that a case has been filed at the Gorur Police Station against truck driver Bhuvan, whose alleged rash driving caused the disaster during the Ganesha procession in Hassan on Friday night.