Hindutva activist Chaithra Kundapura, who had been detained in Udupi on Wednesday for having duped a businessman from Byndoor in Udupi district and a leader of the BJP of crores of rupees after promising that they would be given BJP tickets for the last Assembly elections, and six other accused in the case have been handed over to the CCB Division officers.

In a tragic incident in Malavalli town of Mandya district, an eight-year-old boy was killed and his mother grievously injured after a car hit them on Tuesday night, after a car hit them on Tuesday night, when they were returning home from the tuition that the boy had attended.

The Karnataka Police have registered an FIR against a Hindi news channel and its Consulting Editor on allegations of spreading misinformation about a commercial vehicle subsidy scheme of the State government for minorities, officials said on Wednesday.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said the state will once again file a petition before the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) expressing its inability to release Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu.

A tragic accident occurred on Wednesday morning at the Nandikur-Mudarangadi Junction along the Karkala-Padubidri State Highway, resulting in the loss of a 32-year-old motorcycle rider's life.

Former Karnataka Chief Ministers -- B S Yediyurappa and Basavaraj Bommai of the BJP and H D Kumaraswamy of the JD(S) -- will not be attending the "special emergency meeting" called by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday to discuss the issue of releasing Cauvery river water to neighbouring Tamil Nadu.

A series of accidents involving a car, a tipper, and a motorcycle unfolded on Tuesday night near Hiregouja in Chikkamagaluru taluk, resulting in the loss of a couple's lives and serious injuries to a child and the car's driver.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has called for a "special emergency meeting" on September 13, following the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) on Tuesday recommending that Karnataka release 5,000 cusecs of water every day for the next 15 days to Tamil Nadu.