JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday accused the Congress government in Karnataka of introducing "IAS bonded labour policy" in the State by deputing 30 IAS officers to "serve" its alliance leaders, meeting in the city to strategise for the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar arrived in Bengaluru on Tuesday to participate in a meeting of opposition leaders in Bengaluru. Upon his arrival at HAL Airport, Pawar was received by Ministers Lakshmi Hebbalkar, and MB Patil who presented him with a bouquet of flowers.

Three people died on the spot and one was grievously injured in a collision between their car and a parked tractor in the vicinity of Kampalapura village near Periyapatna on the Mysuru-Mangaluru National Highway early Tuesday morning.

Posters blaming Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the Sultanganj bridge collapse in his State surfaced at a key traffic junction ahead of the Opposition parties meet here on Tuesday.

 Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said the government will take a firm decision on the anti-farmer agricultural laws implemented by the previous BJP government in the state.

 With a call for unity, top leaders of 26 opposition parties began crucial deliberations on Monday to chalk out their joint programme aimed at defeating the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Leaders of all parties aiming to fight against the BJP will attend the two-day meeting of opposition parties here of their own accord, they need not be invited, Congress National General Secretary KC Venugopal said, when asked why the JD(S) leaders were not called for the meeting.

Gururaj Gantihole, BJP legislator from Byndoor, lauded the efforts of the state government to help the poor through the implementation of its ‘Anna Bhagya Yojana’.