After a prolonged fight with cancer, ace Bollywood actor-filmmaker Feroz Khan passed away on Sunday in Bangalore.

Khan breathed his last at his farmhouse Khan in Bangalore at 1:30 am, a family source said.

The 70-year-old actor is survived by his son Fardeen Khan and daughter Laila Khan.

He had been diagnosed with cancer, and was being treated at a Mumbai hospital for a long time.

Feroz Khan was born and brought up in Bangalore.

His cremation will take place later in the day in Bangalore.

Bangalore/Sangli, Apr 23: Political bigwigs like Venkaiah Naidu, Ananth Kumar, S. M. Krishna and R. R. Patil went to cast their votes in the second phase of elections to the Lok Sabha in Bangalore and several other places of Karnataka as well as many other constituencies in Maharashtra on Thursday.

In Bangalore, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Naidu and Kumar exercised their franchise with their supporters in tow.

A recent scrutiny of drug-manufacturer Cipla's Bangalore plant by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed as many as nine deviations in the pharma firm's manufacturing process.

With the reports about the digression found at the plant, the shares of Cipla suffered a blow at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), as well as the National Stock Exchange (NSE), on Monday. Despite the company justifying its stand and terming the deviations as "minor ones" relating to manufacturing practices, the stock fell at the BSE.

Bangalore, Apr 17 : The multi-crore fake stamp paper accused Abdul Kareem Telgi was sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment by a CBI special sessions court here on Friday.

Punj Lloyd Group, the diversified engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) Conglomerate, today announced three prestigious contracts worth Rs 308 crore for the construction of eight stations from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation.

The group is currently constructing Singapore’s Mass Rail Transit (MRT) Downtown Line’s Bayfront station at the Marina Bay, and a section of the MRT Circle Line besides projects for Delhi Metro.