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Calling Vinayak Damodar Savarkar a "murderer", former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah slammed the BJP on Friday for its plan to bestow Bharat Ratna to him posthumously.

Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Friday some terrorist sleeper cells were active in Bengaluru and Mysuru and their activities have intensified in coastal Karnataka as well as the Bay of Bengal.

In semi-rural Nagamangala taluk in Karnataka, only 120 kilometres from Bengaluru, a new detention centre for foreign nationals found to be living in the country illegally is almost ready to receive its first residents

Searches in multiple premises in firms and trusts founded by spiritual guru ''Kalki'' Bhagwan has led to detection of undisclosed income of more than Rs 500 crore, the Income Tax department said on Friday.

The Kalasa Banduri project on the Mahadayi river in Karnataka has been a tricky subject for years now between the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa.

The residents of Bengaluru's Mahadevapura today gathered at one of the worst traffic zones in the city to protest against the crumbling infrastructure and poor civic amenities, demanding that their elected representatives either improve the situation or resign.

Telangana's Excise Department has collected Rs 968 crore as application fee for running the liquor shops across the state. The department received 48,000 application for 2,216 liquor licenses this year. Each applicant had to make a non-refundable deposit of Rs 2 lakh, which was double the fee in 2017.

With the impasse between the protesting employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) and the state government showing no signs of ending, Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday stepped in and sought a report on the steps taken by the government to avoid inconvenience to common people.

Ahead of the Assembly bypolls in Karnataka, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked the state unit to work under collective leadership and take dominant communities of the state into confidence, senior party leader SR Patil said on Thursday.

Thumb impressions of 4,250 students who were admitted to various medical courses this year in Tamil Nadu should be handed over to investigators, the Madras High Court said on Wednesday, as it asked if the CBI should probe the growing scandal involving proxies taking the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET.

Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said the detention centre for foreign nationals being constructed outside Bengaluru will be made operational soon.

In a major crackdown, the customs officials in Kerala seized roughly 123 kg of smuggled gold valued at around Rs 50 crore during raids at 23 premises in Kerala's Thrissur district, a top official said on Thursday.

The impasse between the protesting employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) and the state government continued for the thirteenth day with neither of them showing any signs of softening their stands despite the high court intervention.

The private carrier SpiceJet has denied any link to a banner at Madurai airport's baggage screening area that asked people not to burst polluting firecrackers on Diwali. The banner that shows the brand logo of SpiceJet and an earthen lamp has the tagline: "Let's celebrate a pollution-free Diwali."

A BJP delegation here met Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and submitted a memorandum regarding the issues related to the strike of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) workers, which entered the 12th day on Wednesday.