Bengaluru: Karnataka on Saturday reported 222 fresh COVID-19 cases taking the total infections to 39,53,058, the state health department said.

Chitradurga: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday ruled out constituting a new textbook review committee amid a row over the controversial tweets and excluding the writings of intellectuals by Karnataka Textbook Review Committee chief Rohith Chakrateertha many years ago.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has refused a petition seeking to quash the case of bigamy filed against a 76-year-old man who admitted that he is still married to three women.

Security has been heightened in Srirangapatna, the erstwhile capital of 18th century ruler Tipu Sultan in the district, following Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) call to perform puja at the Jamia mosque, claiming that it was built after razing a Hanuman temple.

In an accident that reportedly occurred on the national highway near Begur, a car crashed into the road divider after the driver of the vehicle lost control resulting in a sequence of accidents where the out-of-control car then crashed into a Tempo Traveller and a bullet bike causing the deaths of two passengers in the car at Kunigal Taluk early morning on Saturday. Apart from that, 10 other people have been injured in the accident, it is learned. 

Bengaluru: Six candidates are in the fray for the June 10 Rajya Sabha poll to four seats from Karnataka, necessitating a heated contest for the fourth seat.

Kalaburagi: Seven people travelling in a private bus are feared to have been charred to death in a road accident near Kamalapura town here during the early hours on Friday, police said.

Bengaluru: Amidst the standoff between Chairman Beloor Raghavendra Shetty and Managing Director and IPS Officer D Roopa Moudgil, of Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited (KSHDCL) the latter has reportedly said she is under threat of an acid attack by Shetty.