The plans of thousands of passengers, to visit their native places in Karnataka for the long weekend, might go awry as thousands of employees of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation are going on a strike on Thursday. In NEKRSTC there are 24,000 employees and in NWKSRTC there are 24,000 employees and in NWKSRTC the employee strength is 30,000.

Kishori Ballal, veteran Kannada actress who is remembered for her performance as Kaveri Amma in Ashutosh Gowariker's Swades among others, died on Tuesday at the age of 82 in Bengaluru. Condolence messages have been pouring in for Kishori Ballal since morning. Now, Shah Rukh Khan took to Twitter to remember his 'Kishori Amma' and shared how she regularly reprimanded him for smoking.

Atleast six-people including two-children were killed and two others injured in an accident in Arunachal Pradesh's Namsai-area on Tuesday-night. The incident took place between Chongkham and Namsai area in Namsai district where a Santro car where the victims were travelling met with an accident. According-to-reports, the people belong to a tea tribe were returning from a marriage party towards their home to Chesing Wingko-village.