Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parmeshwara has claimed that approximately 8 lakh people descended upon Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium for Royal Challengers Bangalore’s victory celebrations which triggered a stampede and resulted in the deaths of 11.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar today broke down while recalling what the mother of a man who died in the stampede during RCB’s IPL victory celebration on Wednesday told him.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi planted a ‘sindoor’ sapling, presented to him by a group of women who had shown remarkable courage during the 1971 war, at his residence on World Environment Day on Thursday.