Former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and several other senior BJP leaders in the state were taken under preventive custody on Thursday when they took out a march to lay siege to the CM Siddaramaiah's Office residence.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday inaugurated the new Karnataka Bhavan building, 'Kaveri', in Delhi's Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave.

The Special Court for Economic Offences on Wednesday remanded one of the accused in the gold smuggling case to judicial custody until April 7.

A division bench of the High Court has on Wednesday given a green signal to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to probe in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) land scam case.

A 20-year-old paramedical college student attempted suicide by consuming pills after allegedly being harassed and blackmailed with her photographs by an acquaintance, police said on Wednesday.

 A pre-school principal and her two associates were arrested for allegedly extorting money from the father of a five-year-old student with whom she had an affair, police said on Wednesday.

In a dramatic incident reported here, a senior police officer who had been selected for the Chief Minister's Gold Medal, Inspector Kumar of Annapoorneshwari Nagar Police Station is reported to be absconding allegedly for fear of an arrest by Lokayukta Police.

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge said on Tuesday that the state government will be forced to fight against the Governor, like the Tamil Nadu government did, if the bills passed by the Karnataka government continued to be rejected by Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot.