Bengaluru: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be visiting poll-bound Karnataka on December 30 and 31, where the ruling BJP aims to come back to power.

Hubballi/Dharwad (K'taka): The COVID response mock drills to check readiness to deal with any increase in the number of Coronavirus cases was successfully held at hospitals across the state, Karnataka Health Minister Sudhakar said on Tuesday.

Belagavi (K'taka): Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar on Tuesday asserted that not even a single village will be ceded to Maharashtra, as he condemned the resolution passed in the neighbouring state's legislature regarding inclusion of Marathi-speaking villages here.

Nagamangala: Three students, who met former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday, during the JD(S) 'Pancharatna Rathayatra' in Devalapura village, Nagamangala, handed him their savings with a request, “We want you to become the next chief minister of the state, Uncle."

A mixer grinder that had come as a parcel exploded at a courier office here, leaving one person injured, police said on Tuesday.

Mysuru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brother Prahlad Modi met a road accident in Karnataka’s Mysuru on Tuesday. The accident reportedly took place on the outskirts of Mysuru Kadkolla.

The Maharashtra legislature on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to "legally pursue" inclusion of 865 Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka into the western state, amid the raging boundary dispute between the two states.

According to allegations, more than 100 graves in a Muslim graveyard were levelled by miscreants near Kondanayakanahalli in the taluk.