New Delhi, Dec 30: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday called for a high-level probe through an independent agency into the death of SL Dharme Gowda, deputy chairperson of the Karnataka Legislative Council.

Panaji, Dec 30: The law department of the Goa government has given approval to a proposal to allow cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a minister has said, a move which drew flak from opposition parties.

Chandigarh, Dec 30: In another humiliating defeat to Haryana's ruling BJP-JJP combine, it lost mayoral polls in two municipal corporations but won in one civic body on Wednesday.

Hubballi, Dec 30: The proposed 1500-metre plus world’s longest platform of Indian Railways, being re-modelled now at the Hubballi Station of the Hubballi Division of the South Western Railways (SWR) will be inaugurated in march next year, according to E Vijaya, Deputy General Manager and Chief Public Relation officer of the SWR.

Bengaluru, Dec 30: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Wednesday appealed to the people to take all precautionary measures while welcoming the new year because the Covid-19 is not yet over.

Bengaluru, Dec 30: Senior IAS officer, P Ravi Kumar has been appointed as the 38th Chief Secretary of Karnataka.

New Delhi, Dec 30: Kapil Gurjar, the man who shot to fame for opening fire near the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest site in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh almost a year ago, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Dec 30: Two years of hard work by 19-year-old S Riyasdeen has finally borne fruit. The second-year mechatronics engineering student has built the world's lightest FEMTO satellite weighing just 33 grams, which will be launched by the US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) in 2021.

Riyadh: Amid detection of new mutated coronavirus, Kingdom Saudi Arabia as preventive measures have imposed the ban on travelers arriving in KSA, the preventive measures taken by Saudi Authorities during COVID 19 since beginning is appreciable.

Sydney, Dec 30: Not surprised with Indian team's retaliatory act in the second Test, Australian speedster Pat Cummins says they will assess the fight put up by the visitors and be ready for combat when the third Test begins in Sydney from January 7.