A voter turnout of 76.52% was recorded in Uttara Kannada district, including 66.02% in Bhatkal taluk, in the Karnataka Legislative Council’s West Graduates’ Constituency election held from 8 am to 4 pm on Friday.
Bhatkal Town police have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with the theft of a Tempo Traveller parked beside National Highway 66 at Mankuli in September. The stolen vehicle was allegedly taken to Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, according to the investigation.
26-10-2026
Pramoda Devi Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family has expressed deep disappointment over the conduct of Dussehra 2026, alleging poor coordination among government departments and repeated interference with the family's religious rituals, and proposed shifting the Sri Chamundeshwari Ammanavaru's Ambari procession to the day of the hill's Rathotsava.
The blast at an under-construction building in Pulakeshinagar here was the result of personal rivalry and not a terror attack, Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said on Sunday.
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday said the state government would take appropriate action if private institutions were found to be deliberately sidelining Kannadigas in job opportunities.
26-10-2026
Amid the raging row over its chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s “baap” remarks, the Congress on Sunday claimed that a BJP worker first insulted Kharge’s late father while he was speaking in Patna which prompted the veteran leader to refer to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “ideological father”, the RSS.
Dubbing the protests against the SIR of electoral rolls a "second war of independence", Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday demanded an immediate halt to the exercise, the use of ballot papers in all future elections and annulment of assembly polls held over the past two years.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Monday acquitted by an MP-MLA court here in a defamation case related to his 2018 remarks against then BJP president Amit Shah.
25-10-2026
The Indian Nawayath Community, Qatar (INCQ), organised ‘INCQ Milap’ on Thursday, October 22, marking the first phase of its annual sports and cultural programme, INCQ Fiesta 3.0.
Gulf Medical University (GMU), the flagship academic institution of Thumbay Group, has made its debut in the QS World University Rankings: Arab Region 2027, ranking 125th overall and first in the Arab Region for international student ratio.
An Indian national was killed and two others were injured in an attack on Dammam airport in Saudi Arabia, officials said on Thursday, a day after another compatriot was injured in a drone attack targeting the kingdom's Shaybah oilfield, amid a spate of strikes by Yemen's Houthi rebels on key infrastructure in the country.
21-10-2026
The US and India are “pretty close” to making a trade deal, which will be much different than the earlier pacts, US President Donald Trump said here.
Hundreds gathered at Mahatma Gandhi’s statue at Parliament Square in London on Saturday for a protest organised by the Opposition Congress and UK-based Indian students’ groups against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
At least 10 people, including six of a family, were killed and several injured in a fire at a seaside resort in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district on Saturday, according to officials and local media reports.
24-10-2026
Tilak Varma smacked 51 not out as India beat New Zealand by four wickets in the second T20I to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series here on Saturday.
Sanju Samson maintained his remarkable consistency this calendar year with a sublime 67 off 33 balls as India pulled off their highest chase in T20 cricket, overcoming a mid-innings stumble for a four-wicket win in the series-opener against New Zealand here on Thursday.
India and the West Indies fittingly shared a closely-fought T20 series 2-2 after the rain-marred fifth and final match was called off 7.4 overs into the hosts’ innings here on Saturday.
