Bengaluru: Union finance minister Arun Jaitley's announcement in his Budget address that Karnataka will get an IIT finally lays to rest an 17-year-long wait for the state. The state's own successive governments are to be blamed for the delay in setting up the premier engineering institute. It was wa

  Tumkur: All precautions have been taken by the state administration to control swine flu in Karnataka, minister for health U T Khader said on Friday. The health department has supplied the requisite medicines to all the government hospitals. Addressing the media persons at a press confe

BENGALURU: Observing that the state government's attempts not to implement the Supreme Court's verdict on the language policy borders on contempt, the high court on Friday directed it to permit existing English- medium schools to teach classes 1-5 students in English. "This borders on contempt. T

BENGALURU: Fed up with the apathy close to 2,000 researchers on Thursday sent in cheques of Re 1 each to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, finance minister Arun Jaitley, and human resources development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani, symbolising the kind of payment they think they are receiving. From ba

A team from Karnataka has done the state proud by capturing three trouble making tuskers in Maharashtra recently . Abhimanyu, 49, known for his valour, led the operation, which also had Arjuna (the present howdah elephant), Gajendra and Harsha. Nagarahole National Park veterinarian K S Umashankar, w

BENGALURU: Trees of Bengaluru are an orphaned lot. With nominated tree officers failing to take charge, they are fast falling prey to indiscriminate axing. In fact, all felling activities over the last two months have been illegal. Some officials are allegedly allowing this, despite not having the p

Bengaluru: It was an action-packed Sunday. While cricket buffs were hooked to the India-South Africa clash on TV, the adventurous lot stepped out to catch the buzz on the last day of Aero India. But a mind-boggling 10,000 women decided to chart their own course. They put on their running shoes and t

Syed Zyme, a class 7 student of Christ School, was fasci nated by remote-controlled cars. "All children want to play with such cars and I too wanted one. But my father said it was a waste of money . So, I made my own car using scrap material and spent just Rs 100 on it," he said. Cool drink bottle c

MANGALURU: Former union minister M Veerappa Moily said the demand for a Dalit CM was unwarranted at this juncture since Siddaramaiah is the chief minister now. He has done well and it is not the time to criticise or demand a change, he said. He was speaking after the inauguration of the newly

MANGALURU: The Indian coast guards are organizing a motor bike rally from February 23 to 26 from this coastal city to Karwar to mark the 38th anniversary of the organization. The rally that is being organised in coordination with Coastal Security Police will cover a total distance of 513- km to and

Bengaluru: The deafening roar of soaring jets, agile aerobatic aircraft, hovering choppers... Aero India literally got off to a flying start, not seen during the previous edition's inaugural. If Highway to Hell from rock band AC/DC and Linkin Park's I've Become So Numb kept people entertained befor

BENGALURU: After Tamiflu tablets, its vaccines against the deadly H1N1 viral that are getting scarce now. The vaccine is manufactured to counter the viral strain of H1N1 virus and as the virus undergoes a mutation, the vaccine also needs to be updated. The currently available vaccine expires in A

BENGALURU: "Fluvir? No stocks." This is the response from most authorized chemists in Bengaluru to people who want to buy the drug prescribed for treating Influenza A virus (H1N1). The city has seen 10 H1N1 deaths in 45 days. Panic spreads if a person shows symptoms of the disease. But Fluvir, th

BENGALURU: The JD(S) vacated the "Congress Bhavan" near the Anand Rao Circle, lock, stock and barrel on Sunday, bringing to an end decades-long political and legal battles. Gowda, who arrived at the premises at 8 am, oversaw the shifting of the property — mostly furniture and portraits of Janata Par

In news that could bring cheer to engineering aspirants looking for highly subsidised seats, as many as three new government engineering colleges are on the anvil. Set to come up in Challakere (Chitradurga), Nargund (Gadag) and Talkal (Koppal), the colleges will add to the government seat pool if th

BENGALURU: The blame game on Arkavathy land denotification saw a two-hour slugfest in the legislative assembly on Friday. And the principal players were current chief minister Siddaramaiah sparring with his predecessors H D Kumaraswamy and Jagadish Shettar. As accusations and counter-accusations fle

A 14-year-old high school student was kidnapped and murdered by his neighbour, who wanted to take revenge on the teenager’s mother. The boy, a resident of Sanjivininagar, was killed in an isolated place on Bangalore University campus last week. The body of Kiran Kumar, a Class 8 student of Chaita

Bengaluru: From Delhi to Bengaluru. Having conquered the capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has cast its eye on Bengaluru. BBMP elections are due in April, and though there's speculation the Congress government might postpone polls citing bifurcation of the civic body, the Karnataka unit of AAP i