Karnataka news updates: State reports 738 new Covid cases, zero deaths

A joint operation between Bengaluru police and the military intelligence (MI) wing of the army’s southern command has led to the arrest of a 41-year-old person who is being grilled at an undisclosed location.

Heavy rains lashed the two coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada (DK) and Udupi, affecting normal life in several parts of the region. Low lying areas were inundated and traffic was disrupted at many places in the districts on Monday.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) spent Rs 23 crore to develop 14-km stretch of a road ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’ visit to Bengaluru.

A fifth suspect has been arrested for the murder of businessman Jugraj Jain in Chamarajpet. The accused is Om Ram Devasi from Rajasthan. Police have recovered 1. 4kg of gold and Rs 14 lakh cash from him. The main accused — Bijaram, Jain’s servant — and his associates Puran Ram Devasi alias Pooran Ram, 26, a resident of Goa, Mahendra Devasi, 27, of Raipur, Om Prakash Devasi, 24, of Chickpet, were arrested earlier.

Two days after II PU results were announced, the admission hustle has begun in city colleges. While 720 applications for admission to UG courses were submitted online in the state till Monday afternoon, many colleges are accepting offline forms for the time being. According to a government order issued last week, students have to apply to various colleges through the UUCMS (Unified University and College Management System) portal. They have to enter their personal details (most of which will be fetched by the system when they enter PU registration number), colleges and courses they wish to apply for. However, as on Monday, only 650 of the 2,900 colleges in the state were accessible on the portal. This is because the affiliation process of the other institutions is still under way. Unless the nod comes from the respective universities, colleges are not bound to start the official admission process.

With high-speed diesel (HSD) price for bulk buyers touching a record Rs 120.2 per litre, cash-strapped state transport undertakings in Karnataka are staring at a crisis. Although STUs — including KSRTC and BMTC — are bulk buyers, they had reached an informal arrangement with oil marketing companies (OMCs) or retailers for fuel supply at retail rates for the past few months.

A 60-year-old woman arrived in Bengaluru from Tamil Nadu in the early hours of June 16 to stay with her son and daughter-inlaw but went missing within a few hours of reaching their residence at Kasturinagar near Pulikeshinagar, east B engaluru. Vasa nti from Arni town in Tiruvannamalai, TN, was brought to Bengaluru by her son Rajesh, a private firm employee, and daughter-in-law Gautami. They reached the city by train around 5. 30am. Vasanti stepped out around 7am to buy vegetables.

5. 40 seconds. That’s the new record set by the 105-year-old Rambai in 100m at the inaugural National Open Masters Athletics Championships — conducted by the Athletics Federation of India — that concluded in Vadodara on Sunday.

On the backburner for a few months, the big-ticket infrastructure project that seeks to upgrade 12 Bengaluru roads into high density corridors has finally won the approval of the Karnataka government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday set a 40-month deadline for the BJP’s ‘double engine’ governments (state and Centre) to decongest Bengaluru’s traffic by taking up key infrastructure projects.