Bidar: The Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Special Court in Bengaluru has ordered the issuance of a bailable warrant against the Bidar Deputy Commissioner after the district administration failed to submit a report in a government land grabbing case involving Aurad BJP MLA Prabhu Chauhan.

Bidar: In a unique protest over the ongoing water crisis, residents of Eklur village in Basavakalyan taluk locked Panchayat members inside the Gram Panchayat office, expressing their frustration over the lack of action to resolve the drinking water problem.

Mysuru: In an operation near Gopalpura of the taluk on Friday night, the district police arrested a man accused in a dacoity case by shooting him in the leg as he tried to escape by attacking a police inspector and a constable.

Bengaluru: The protest staged outside the Town Hall as a part of the Karnataka Bandh on Saturday gave rise to ruckus as police personnel intercepted the protesters, including veteran pro-Kannada activist Vatal Nagaraj and film producer Sa Ra Govindu, and took them to Freedom Park.

A 21-year-old girl, who was a BCA (Aviation) student at Acharya Institute in Soladevanahalli, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of the college building on Friday afternoon.

 A 34-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly trafficking synthetic drug MDMA worth several lakhs of rupees from Bengaluru, police officials said on Saturday.

A 12-hour statewide bandh called by the pro-Kannada groups to protest the alleged assault on a state-run bus conductor in Belagavi last month for not knowing Marathi began in Karnataka on Saturday morning amid tight security.

Bengaluru: Elaborate security arrangements have been put in place across Karnataka as pro-Kannada groups have called for a 12-hour statewide shutdown on March 22 to protest the alleged assault on a state-run bus conductor in Belagavi last month for not knowing Marathi.