Police rescued a stock market investor who was abducted from the busy and upmarket MG Road in Bengaluru for a ransom of Rs five crore.

For over three years Bengaluru's Samashti Gubbi has been striving hard to popularise Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages of India.

An ambulance that was taking an outpatient from Canara Healthcare in Kumta to a private hospital in Mangaluru toppled on National Highway 66 as the driver lost control near Hosapatna Cross in Uttara Kannada Honnavar taluk.

T. Chidananda, a former city council member from Hospet, passed away on Sunday morning after suffering a heart attack. He was 72 years old.

Bengaluru on Saturday reported its first confirmed case of a death due to dengue since January amid a recent spike in cases, a senior official said.

Karnataka BJP leaders are gearing up to lay siege to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's residence in Bengaluru on July 3, demanding his resignation over an alleged illegal money transfer scam.

The Karnataka police have arrested a 47-year-old man in Mumbai for allegedly cheating many people with the promise of facilitating admissions in medical colleges, a police official said on Saturday.

In a brazen attack on Friday night, miscreants assaulted police officers and freed an accused in a theft case near the railway underbridge in Betageri.