Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday expressed serious concern over financial distress, low enrolment ratios and the lack of scientific temper in universities, urging Vice-Chancellors to uphold their constitutional responsibility beyond administrative and resource constraints.

In a key development in a cyber defamation case involving social activist Snehamayi Krishna, police on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly circulating fake documents and a fabricated audio clip targeting senior KAS officer and former MUDA Commissioner D B Natesh.

 Lokayukta police on Saturday said they caught BJP MLA Chandru Lamani allegedly accepting a Rs 5 lakh bribe.

In a major academic feat, Syeda Kashmira Simran, daughter of late Kashmir Simran Syed Nazir Ahmed and Syeda Nikhat Asma, founders of Mountain View School, Virajpet town, has been selected for the post of Civil Judge. She cleared and secured the 30th rank in the first attempt.

 Asserting that curbing corruption in appointments and transfers is his government’s clear objective, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said all recruitments and transfers in the Health Department are being carried out strictly through counselling to ensure transparency.

A 21-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by her husband, who smashed her head with a stone suspecting her fidelity, police said on Saturday.

Four people, including a two-year-old child, were killed after a tractor trolley carrying sugarcane harvesting workers overturned near Katti Keri in Jamkhandi early Saturday morning.

The BMRCL has initiated an internal investigation into the derailment of a Yellow Line train at its depot in January.