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A local court in Andhra Pradesh on Monday sentenced a lorry cleaner to death under the POCSO Act, holding him guilty of rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in November last year.

Around 20 people entered a boys' hostel premises in Karnataka's Belgaum with rods and bats and destroyed properties allegedly over ragging of a girl by two hostel residents.

Vidya Rani, daughter of dead sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, joined the BJPon Saturday at an event organised in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Andhra Pradesh government to probe the alleged irregularities of his tenure is an example of "vendetta politics" by the YSR Congress Party.

South Western Railways' (SWR) Hubli division police personnel will wear cameras on uniform to provide enhanced security to passengers and property, railway officials said on Saturday.

Karnataka Water Resources Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi on Saturday threatened to resign as minister as well as the member of the Assembly if justice is not meted out to Athani MLA Mahesh Kumathalli.

The Andhra Pradesh government has formed a ten-member Special Investigation Team to probe the findings of a cabinet sub-committee that said that since the bifurcated state of Andhra Pradesh came into existence, there were procedural, legal and financial irregularities as well as fraudulent transactions in policies, projects, programs, including insider trader allegations of land in the Capital Region Development Authority region institutions.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate alleged irregularities that took place after the bifurcation of the state.

A day before Kerala's rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal's discharge petition is to be heard, the statement of a nun - one of the witnesses against him - has been leaked.

A day after pro-Pakistan slogans were raised by a protester at an anti-CAA event in Bengaluru, a young woman was taken away by the police on Friday for holding a "Kashmir Mukti (liberation), Dalit Mukti, Muslim Mukti" placard at a counter protest in the city, police said.

A Karnataka woman, who has been charged with sedition after she said Pakistan Zindabad (Long live Pakistan) at a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA in Bengaluru on Thursday, has "Naxal links", Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said today.

The pro-Pakistan chant by a young woman at a protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA in Bengaluru has been criticised by her father after a sedition case was filed against her and she was arrested last evening. "What she said is wrong," he said soon after the anti-CAA event.

A sedition case has been filed against a woman in Bengaluru after she raised "Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Pakistan)" slogansat a protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA. Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who was present at the event, distanced himself and his party - All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) - from the sloganeering, saying, "We, in no way, support our enemy nation Pakistan."

An IIT-Madras faculty was arrested for allegedly attempting to film a Ph.D scholar while she was inside the women's washroom.

A Muslim man has been chosen as the head of a Lingayat mutt in north Karnataka. Diwan Sharief Mulla is in his thirties and comes from a family which respects the teachings of Basava, the 12th Century founder of the Lingayat faith.