Ningabasappa, a staunch RSS worker from Menasagi village in Rona taluk, has surprised many by joining the Congress party in disguise. After being associated with the RSS for 30 years, he chose to switch sides and joined the Congress during a workers' convention in Naragunda, Bagalkote Lok Sabha constituency.

With six children of Karnataka Ministers in the Lok Sabha poll arena, the campaign scene is getting spiced up in the high-stakes elections for the ruling Congress in the state. Prabha Mallikarjun, wife of Minister S S Mallikarjun, is also in the poll fray.

Speaking at a press conference at a private hotel in Hemmadi near Kundapur, KS Eshwarappa has declared that B. Y. Raghavendra's defeat in Shivamogga is certain.

Senior writer Kotiganahalli Ramaiah and his son were seriously assaulted by a gang near the Muneshwar temple of Paparajanahalli on the Antargange hills of Kolar taluk. The incident occurred early in the morning over a trivial matter.

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on Wednesday rejected reports in a section of the media that claimed that a man from an economically weak section of society was barred from using its train services over wearing “inappropriate” attire.

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday overturned a directive issued by the Centre regarding the ban on the import, breeding, and sale of specific breeds of dogs labeled as dangerous by an expert committee under the Animal Husbandry Ministry.

Officials on election duty on Wednesday allegedly stopped the 'Hosa Todaku' programme at the farmhouse of JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy at Bidadi in Ramanagara district, citing violation of model code of conduct in force for the Lok Sabha polls.

Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar on Wednesday did not rule out the possibility of the party backing a prominent seer who announced that he would take on Union Minister Pralhad Joshi from Dharwad in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.