Tag: Karnataka

Suspicions arose when the Udupi man’s family began receiving typed text messages from his phone claiming he was unwell and resting—an unusual change from his routine of sending voice notes.

The former JD(S) MP from Hassan in Karnataka, Prajwal Revanna, is serving out a life sentence in a jail in Bengaluru after being convicted in a rape case last year. The 36-year-old ex-MP is former PM HD Deve Gowda’s grandson and Union minister HD Kumaraswamy’s nephew.

At around 7 pm, the woman and her son were pushed into an autorickshaw and driven to another house. She was told there she would have to work as a sex worker to clear her debt.

Mother of a three-year-old boy, Medha Akarsh, died in an accident on a road in Bengaluru, a city known as the Garden City of India and also the Silicon Valley of India. Amid candlelight marches, residents are demanding accountability from civic authorities.

Reduced water inflows into Mettur reservoir have upped the ante in both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, bringing the Cauvery water dispute back to attention. TN wants Karnataka to release enough water.