Four class nine girl students from a residential school drowned in the sea at Murudeshwar in Uttara Kannada district, during an educational tour, police said on Wednesday.

The Karnataka government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with bottling and packaging equipment manufacturer Krones, in Germany, confirming the company’s plans to establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Vemagal Industrial Park Phase 2 in the state.

Expressing reservation over the state government’s plans to purchase land for constructing houses in Kerala’s Wayanad for those affected by the devastating landslides there, state BJP President B Y Vijayendra sought to know whether Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was working for the people of Karnataka or the Gandhi family.

The tragic suicide of Bengaluru-based techie Atul Subhash has ignited widespread anger, with public outrage focused on the alleged harassment he faced from his wife, her family, and the judicial system. While the Ministry of Law and Justice has issued a statement calling for “care and sensitivity” in family court cases, critics have dismissed the response as superficial and inadequate.

In a concerning series of maternal deaths in Karnataka, a 25-year-old lactating woman reportedly passed away at the district hospital in Chitradurga, sparking allegations of medical negligence from her family.

In a tragic incident, two young children died on Tuesday after accidentally falling into an open well while playing on a coffee estate in Ammadi, located in Chikkamagaluru's Koppa taluk.

The last rites of ex-Chief Minister and former External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will be performed in his ancestral village Somanahalli on Wednesday afternoon, Mandya District In Charge Minister N Chaluvarayaswamy said.

Bengaluru: A day after a 34-year-old techie from Uttar Pradesh died by suicide after blaming his wife and her family, the police on Tuesday said they have been booked for abetment of suicide.