BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court has asked the authorities to be more careful next year so that instances like of errors in the re-evaluation of second PUC results and delay in furnishing photocopies of answer-scripts to students are not repeated. Disposing of a PIL filed by city-based Rajaraj

There is relief in sight for the city as the residents of villages around the S. Bingipura landfill have agreed to allow the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to dump waste there for the next fortnight at least. With this, clearing of nearly 4,000 tonnes of garbage piled up across parts o

The garbage nightmare has come back to haunt some parts of the city. With residents near Bingipura landfill preventing trucks from dumping garbage, the sight of heaps of garbage lying uncleared in Bengaluru south and Bommanahalli is back. The residents have locked up the entry to the landfill aft

MANGALURU: Former Union minister B Janardhana Poojary said that no political parties have the rights to decide what people should or should not eat. Reacting on recent ban on meat in Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh and Rajastan, Poojary said that the government cannot mandate people

MANGALURU: A novel FISH test for malaria diagnosis has been developed by researchers of the US and Mangaluru using an LED light source which is suitable for malaria-endemic countries which are short on resources. It detects all strains of malaria. Dr Jyotsna Shah and her team of researchers at ID

The power situation in the State is likely to improve by September 22, with the Union government allowing drawing of 200 MW during night from the Central grid and the Bellary Thermal Power Station (BPTS) and Udupi Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) gearing up to supply power to the State grid shortly.

MANGALURU: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today appreciated the 'people-oriented' agitational programmes of the Aam Aadmi party's local unit and urged them to reinforce the organisation. Party leaders said Aam Aadmi workers from Sullia met Kejriwal this morning and briefed him about the org

BENGALURU: The CBI late on Tuesday arrested customs superintendant S H Lingaraju at the Kempegowda International Airport on the city's outskirts for demanding and accepting Rs 2.5 lakh as bribe from a complainant, an official said on Wednesday. "The accused was nabbed at the airport under relevan

MOODBIDRI: Shamed after being caught allegedly stealing mobile phones from her hostel mates, an 18-year-old student from Bengaluru committed suicide in Alvas College hostel here on Sunday. According to police, Rakshitha, a first-year BCom student at Alvas College and resident of Jayanagar in Beng

Udupi: Minister R V Deshpande visited the victims of Kumta gas tanker tragedy who are presently being treated at KMC Hospital, Manipal on Friday September 4th. In-charge minister of Uttara Kannada district R V Deshpande, announced compensation of Rs 2 lakhs to the family of the deceased and Rs 1

BENGALURU: As if coping with erratic power supply was not bad enough, Bengalureans could soon have their taps running dry. Scant rainfall in the Cauvery basin has resulted in dwindling water levels in Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) and Kabini reservoirs, two crucial sources of drinking water for the cit

BENGALURU: The three-hour load-shedding schedule announced by Bescom could mean many more hours of darkness in reality. On Friday, load-shedding in at least two localities of the city went beyond the announced hours. The power utility on Thursday announced three hours of daily load-shedding in th

MANGALURU: Tata Consultancy Services and the department of IT, BT, science and technology, government of Karnataka will organize the Rural IT Quiz programme across six states in India for school students from class VIII to XII. The Rural IT Quiz aims to enhance IT awareness and underlines the imp

BENGALURU: Commuters take note. BMTC, KSRTC buses and autorickshaws will stay off the roads on Wednesday as they join the nationwide strike against hefty penalties proposed against drivers in the National Road Safety bill. Employees' pick-and-drop service will also be hit as BMTC caters to many t

BENGALURU/ALAPPUZHA: The Congress high command is said to have given its nod to chief minister Siddaramaiah to join hands with JD(S) to form the BBMP council. All that's awaited now is a go ahead from JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda. JD(S) has convened a legislators' meeting in Bengaluru on September

The Hennur police have detained three persons after they allegedly attacked an African student identified as Pisse Hotto. According to the police, Pisse Hotto stopped by a shop in Hennur to buy some cigarettes, but the shopkeeper said that there was no stock. However, when he was leaving, he n

MANGALURU: A youth lost Rs 20 lakh after being duped by an SMS alert alleging that he won a lottery. The victim is a resident of Kadaba in Puttur taluk, and works in Kolar. In November 2014, he received an SMS alert stating he has won a bumper prize of Rs 1 crore through Punjab Lottery Scheme. Ho

BENGALURU: Chain-snatchers took advantage of the festival rush and struck in three places within 24 hours. At 10pm Wednesday, Haslekha, 31, was speaking to a few friends outside the Basaveshwara Sugnana Kalyana Mantapa, Vijaynagar, west Bengaluru, when two men on a black Pulsar grabbed her 48-gm