With the announcement of the Karnataka assembly polls this morning by the EC, the model code has come into effect.

This is the 14th straight day that the Question Hour has been washed out in the lower house.

The SC verdict is a landmark verdict. It clearly rules that the rivers are national assets and no state can claim sole right over it.

The Supreme Court verdict has termed inter-state rivers as national assets and that no one state can claim absolute right over it.

Security has been heightened in Bengaluru with city police commissioner T Suneel Kumar saying that 15,000 police personnel have been deployed.