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BJP chief in Karnataka BS Yeddyurappa and other senior party leaders were detained in the coastal city of Mangaluru today as they attempted to march towards the office of the District Collector. Hundreds of BJP workers converged in the city to hold a mega motorbike rally that the police had denied permission for. The BJP is protesting against the murder of 12 workers in the communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada district.

A Vietnamese ship docked at Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh listed dangerously to one side while cargo was being loaded onto it yesterday. The MV Hai Duong 09 remains tilted and efforts are on to stabilize it.

Having junked the proposed metro project from Vijaywada, the Andhra Pradesh government today joined hands with a US-based company to introduce the futuristic "Hyperloop" transportation system in the state capital region, Amravati.

The premier Christian Medical College in Tamil Nadu's Vellore has decided to leave 99 of its 100 MBBS seats vacant this year.

Sidelined AIADMK (Amma) deputy chief TTV Dhinakaran is slated to meet Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao tomorrow, for the first time after 19 MLAs loyal to him expressed lack of confidence in Chief Minister K Palaniswami.

A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Chief Election Commissioner to conduct by-election to RK Nagar Assembly constituency in Chennai, which is lying vacant following the demise of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa last year.

Srinivas, who wants to become a doctor, is shattered at the possibility of an ordinance that would exempt Tamil Nadu from the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET for undergraduate medical admissions for yet another year

After Gauri Lankesh was shot three times, she tried to run into her house in Bengaluru but collapsed outside, where neighbours who heard the gunshots discovered her lying in a pool of blood.

Protests erupted across the city and some parts of the state today condemning the "cold blooded murder" of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru. She was shot dead outside her house last night, sparking outrage from people of all walks of life.

Seventeen years ago, weeks after Gauri Lankesh took over her father's hard-hitting Kannada weekly Lankesh Patrike, she said in an interview that she hadn't thought she would step into his big shoes. Her father, P Lankesh, who was a leading Kannada journalist, poet and author, had died earlier that year

The Karnataka government today decided to form a Special Investigation Team or SIT to investigate the killing of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh.

Tamil Nadu Advocate General Vijay Narayan today told the Madras High Court that the revolt by 19 AIADMK legislators against Chief Minister E Palaniswami was an "intra-party affair" and the governor could not interfere in it

The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Tamil Nadu Advocate General to verify whether the Poes Garden residence of late J Jayalalithaa was mentioned in the disproportionate assets case against her.

Journalist Gauri Lankesh, 55, who was shot dead outside her house in south Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Nagar on Tuesday evening, was known for her work that often criticised the system and pointed out alleged flaws in policy and governance. Her journalism was peppered with activism, people who have known her closely say

Amid calls for a floor test in the Tamil Nadu Assembly by the opposition parties, 111 MLAs of the ruling AIADMK in the state today attended a legislators' meet convened by Chief Minister E Palaniswami in Chennai.