Bengaluru: Amid resentment within, among a section of leaders, over his appointment as Karnataka BJP president, B Y Vijayendra on Sunday said, everything will be fine, and every one including senior party MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, who is upset, will be taken into confidence.

Mandya: A 50-year-old woman was allegedly killed by a wild elephant near Lalanakere here on Sunday morning, police said. 

An eight-year-old girl studying in Class 2 of the government school at Chinamagera of Afzalpur taluk, who had fallen into a vessel of hot sambar on Thursday, died at the Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru early Sunday morning.

BJP leader Manikanth Rathod and his friend Shrikanth Sulegaon were assaulted with beer bottles by unidentified persons at around midnight on Saturday near the Shankarwadi Cross on the National Highway 150 at Malagatti in Chittapur taluk.

With JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy repeatedly attacking him and his son Yathindra, a former Congress MLA, accusing them of a "cash for transfer" racket, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said he will retire from politics, if proved that he has taken money, even in a single transfer case of government officials.

A 23-year-old woman and her nine-month-old baby girl died when they accidentally stepped on a live wire lying unattended on the pavement near Hope Farm here early on Sunday, police said.

Taking serious exception to the inaction of the authorities, the High Court of Karnataka directed the Deputy Commissioner of Mandya to follow up on the notices issued to unauthorized and illegal constructions around the Saumyakeshava temple in Nagamangala and remove them as per law.

Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Secretary B K Bhattacharya has passed away, family sources said on Saturday.