A drunken driving incident on Christmas Eve left a motorcyclist injured after his Royal Enfield bike was dragged for nearly 500 metres by a Hyundai Creta following a collision on Bengaluru’s Ring Road, NDTV reported on Friday.

Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has reportedly put the decision on a possible leadership change in Karnataka on hold after receiving feedback on the potential political repercussions of such a move, according to highly placed party sources.

 A male elephant was found dead near Erekatte Lake in the Purani section of the Yelandur forest range under the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve in Chamarajanagar district, forest officials said.

 A 39-year-old nurse was found murdered at her residence in Kumaraswamy Layout in south Bengaluru, with police suspecting that she was killed while resisting a robbery.

Two people of a family died while four others were seriously injured after their car crashed into a tree on the outskirts of the city, police said on Friday.

Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy has said while India is moving steadily towards becoming the world’s third-largest economic power under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, Karnataka is heading in the opposite direction under the Congress government.

The second edition of the World Ayurveda Summit began at Palace Grounds on Thursday, bringing together experts, practitioners and students to discuss the future of Ayurveda and its role in modern healthcare.

Four people died in a road accident near Ajjavara Gate here on Thursday night, police sources said.