Bengaluru: Karnataka's highest civilian award the 'Karnataka Ratna' was conferred posthumously on late actor Puneeth Rajkumar on Tuesday, on the occasion of the 67th Kannada Rajyotsava (the state formation day).

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai assured a victim of acid who met him near his official residence on Tuesday seeking his help, that she will be given government employment.

The chariot of the Sri Veerabhadreshwara Temple Rathotsava in Channappanapura village, Chamarajnagar taluk, collapsed when it was being taken out in procession on Tuesday morning

Apparently stressed due to family insistence on attending school, a 14-year-old boy is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself at the hostel he was staying in.

Opposition leader in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah has accused the state government of not inviting him to the program to confer the ‘Karnataka Ratna’ award posthumously on late Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar on Tuesday evening.

Senior movie actor Rajinikanth arrived at the HAL Airport in the city as a guest for the event to confer the ‘Karnataka Ratna’ award posthumously on late Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar on Tuesday evening.

Members of the nomadic communities flocked around Cooperation and District In-charge Minister S T Somashekhar during the Kannada Rajyotsava celebrations here on Tuesday, demanding title deeds for houses and shouting slogans.

Local police stopped Shiva Sena activists from Maharashtra from crossing the border to Belagavi district in order to prevent the Kannada Rajyotsava celebrations.