Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday said there seems to be a link between the blast at the city's popular eatery Rameshwaram Cafe, and the cooker explosion that took place in the coastal city of Mangaluru in 2022, and all angles are being looked into by the police.

Bengaluru: A routine phone call from his mother saved a 24-year-old software engineer from the low intensity blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe here on Friday afternoon where he had gone to have lunch.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday instructed top police officials to heighten patrolling in crowded areas. This comes a day after an IED (Improvised explosive device) bomb rocked the Rameshwaram cafe in the city’s Whitefield.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday announced that the private water tankers in Bengaluru would be taken over by the State government in view of severe water shortage.

Bengaluru: Four people have been detained for questioning in connection with the low-intensity bomb blast at a Bengaluru eatery, police sources said on Saturday.

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda on Saturday said that the investigation of the Rameshwaram cafe blast in which 10 people were injured has been handed over to Central Crime Branch and that no arrest has been made in connection with the incident. In a post on 'X', he said, "Investigation of the case has been handed over to the Central Crime Branch (CCB). All the injured are recovering. No arrest (have been) made."

Mandya: Securing their seat belts proved to be a lifeline to the passengers, including the driver, in a car, who were saved although the vehicle toppled, hit the divider and was badly damaged after one of its tyre burst near Maddur in Mandya district while traveling on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway on Saturday.

In a novel attempt in India, people in rural areas of Karnataka are being provided an online chat service on WhatsApp to get information on the set-up and various services provided by all the gram panchayats in the state, with Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge launching the program at his office in the Vidhana Soudha on Friday.