Women and Child Development Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar recently announced that the much-awaited April instalment of the Gruha Lakshmi scheme will be released within the next week.

Bengaluru: Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy has ordered the suspension of a BMTC driver who was accused of attempting to run over a young woman over a road altercation.

Bengaluru: Commenting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public speeches after Operation Sindoor, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge urged him to "focus on the enemy instead of self-boasting" and to recuse himself from election campaign.

Bengaluru: Bellandur Police have filed an FIR in a case of assault of an auto rickshaw driver by an unidentified woman, based on the driver’s complaint.

Belagavi: City Police Commissioner Bhushan Gulabrao Borase has said that the investigation of the recent incident of copies of Quran being set on fire in Santi Bastawada village has been handed over to the Central Investigation Department (CID) considering the sensitivity of the matter.

A minor girl was allegedly gang-raped and the act was filmed by the accused to blackmail her at Kakati in Belagavi district, police said on Sunday. Two people have been arrested in this connection while a hunt is on to nab four others.

Three people were killed after a rashly driven truck fell on them on the Dharwad-Belgaum bypass on Sunday, police said.

A 38-year-old woman from Devanahalli taluk on the outskirts of Bengaluru died by suicide after reportedly feeling distressed over having to eat the same sambar she had cooked in the morning, according to preliminary findings by the police.