Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to expedite the process of releasing the drought relief funds to the state.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said it won't be surprising if JD(S), which is now in alliance with the BJP, merges with the saffron party in the days ahead.

Bengaluru: Two former MLAs of JD(S) -- R Manjunath and D C Gowrishankar -- along with their supporters joined the ruling Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday.

Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Madhu Bangarappa has said that G.T. Devegowda, the JD(S) legislator from Chamundeshwari constituency, will soon become a member of the Congress.

A 35-year-old man in the city, Mallesh, was hacked to death using lethal weapons near the Guddekal flyover. The suspects are absconding, said the city police.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ramesh Jigajinagi has called the appointment of B.Y. Vijayendra as the new President of the Karnataka unit of the BJP as the work of members belonging to the higher sections of society, adding that the Dalit members have been neglected by the party high command.

Posters dubbing former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy as 'current thief' surfaced on the walls near his house a day after the Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company registered a case of power theft against him.

Newly appointed Karnataka BJP President B Y Vijayendra on Wednesday formally assumed charge at the state party office here.