Bengaluru news live: Man kills mother, dumps body into well

More than two months after an 85-year-old woman’s body was found in an open well, her son has reportedly confessed to killing her. Devaiah, 40, allegedly told police he had murdered his mother and tried to pass it off as an accident by throwing her body in the well.

Four people from Bengaluru were killed in a road accident near Channarayapatna in Hassan. The deceased were on their way to Chikkamagaluru in a car.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) will transfer all chargesheets filed under the Prevention of Corruption Act to the Karnataka Lokayukta. The Karnataka high court passed an order to this effect on Friday after considering an interlocutory application filed by the Lokayukta. The order also covers future chargesheets.

Second-year PU exams will be held from May 24 to June 16, and the schedule for SSLC exam will be announced soon. Read full story

When Sonali Rathod, state topper in BSc nursing, walked to the stage to receive two gold medals from the President of India during the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences convocation, it was a proud moment for the gritty girl who fought the odds to taste success. Read full story

Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge will be the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, succeeding Ghulam Nabi Azad whose tenure comes to an end on Monday. Read full story

Even as Panchamasalis, a dominant subsect of the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community, are on a 450km padayatra seeking reservation under 2A category, over 500 seers of the community from various states are set to launch an agitation seeking the Other Backward Communities (OBC) status for all subsects of the community at the national level. Read full story

All those who took Covid vaccine on January 16 — the day the inoculation drive began in India — have completed four weeks and are due for a second dose on February 13. In Karnataka, a total of 13,408 healthcare workers had taken the vaccine on Day 1 of the drive and most of them were administered Covishield. Read full story

The central disciplinary committee of the BJP on Friday issued a show cause notice to disgruntled BJP Vijayapura City MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal for supposedly embarrassing the party and government.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday asked police officials to be polite and considerate to complainants approaching police stations.

The Karnataka government was contemplating bringing in a law to keep a tab on online games and a draft bill was underway, State home minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Friday.

Four men, including an Ivory Coast national and a BDA broker, have been arrested for drug peddling. KS Layout police recovered cocaine and ecstasy tablets worth Rs 2.4 lakh from Mohammed Muzamil, 27, of Pulikeshinagar, Syed Shoiabuddin, 27, of Mysuru, K Ravikumar alias BDA Kumar, 46, of JP Nagar VII phase and Dosso Kalfia, from Ivory Coast. BDA Kumar owned a second-hand BMW that he reportedly purchased in 2019 for Rs 35 lakh.

Allocating required funds for ongoing irrigation projects will be a tough task for chief minister BS Yediyurappa when he presents the budget for 2021-22. Reason: Projects like Yettinahole, Mahadayi and Stage 3 of Upper Krishna Project need over Rs 1 lakh crore for completion, as per water resources department officials.

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru police on Thursday arrested a physical education teacher in connection with the Karnataka Public Service Commission’s First Division Assistant (FDA) recruitment question paper leak case. The suspect is Venkatesh, a cousin of Rachappa, who was already arrested in the case. Venkatesh and Rachappa are from Athani, Belagavi district. Rachappa was selected as second division assistant (SDA) and was waiting to get an appointment letter. Venkatesh is a physical education teacher in a residential school at Koratagere, Tumakuru district.

A special court for Protection of Children From Sexual Offences (Pocso) in Tumakuru on Tuesday held a 26-year-old man guilty of abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl in 2014 and awarded him 10-year rigorous imprisonment. A Lakshmana, resident of Nelagunte village near Tumakuru, also has to pay a fine of Rs 40,000. Besides Lakshmana, police had arrested and chargesheeted six others, including his father and other close relatives on charges of illegal detention of the girl. However, the court acquitted them.

Yelahanka police on Thursday morning opened fire at a 27-year-old rowdy after he attacked a constable with a machete near Yelahanka New Town. Shabareesh alias Appi from JJ Nagar is allegedly involved in 22 criminal cases of which 14 are in Yelahanka police station. At 12.30am, Shabareesh and his associates—Imran, 26, and Murali, 21— stopped the car of Nagaraj and snatched his mobile phone, ATM card and Rs 700 before speeding away.

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to inoculate its team of marshals, who have been tasked with enforcing Covid-19 safety rules such as wearing masks while in public places and maintaining social distancing.When marshals were not included in the list of frontline workers, Col onel Rajbhir Singh, chief of the team of 250 marshals, was upset. “Marshals have been working relentlessly day and night amidst the pandemic,” he told TOI. “They are highly exposed to the virus so they need to get the jab.”

A 25-year-old Tamil Nadu-based man arrived at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) from Dubai with smuggled gold in his body and iPhones and Chinamade drones hidden in his luggage. Items worth Rs 75.1 lakh were seized from him by the Bangalore Customs.

Annapoorneshwarinagar police arrested two men for robbing mobile phones and recovered 15 handsets worth Rs 5 lakh from them. Probe revealed Prasanna Kumar and his associate Jagadish alias Jaggi, both residents of Kamakshipalya, targeted those who would be alone and talking on phone on desolate stretches. “Those talking on mobile phone will be less alert and snatching becomes easy,” the cops quoted the duo as sayingPolice also seized two autorickshaws used by the duo in the crimes.