Vijayakanth died at 71 on December 28, 2023, due to age-related ailments. The DMDK parted ways with the BJP and aligned with the AIADMK in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday announced that a museum on Ambedkar will come up in Bengaluru on the lines of the one in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, along with the country’s tallest statue of the architect of the constitution.

Inebriated persons armed with sticks and sharp weapons allegedly attacked three Jain monks, who were resting in a temple, after being refused money in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district, leaving them injured, a police official said on Monday.