The State government will chalk out a plan to clean River Cauvery along the lines of the Centre’s scheme to clean the Ganges, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Monday. Speaking after inaugurating various development works at Gandhi Maidana here, he said many states, including Karnataka, were us

The new water tariff announced by Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is aimed at encouraging citizens to conserve water. According to Anjum Parwez, BWSSB’s Managing Director, the tariff has been fixed in such a way that it will deter people from wasting water. “Unless people are ec

BANGALORE: Bangalore is now officially Bengaluru and Mysore is Mysuru. 12 of Karnataka's major towns and cities reverted to their old Kannada names today after the Union Home Ministry this month cleared a proposal made by the state nine years ago. It's a birthday gift - Karnataka turned 68 today.

It is now official. The State capital has shed its anglicised name Bangalore. It will be called by a name with a distinct local flavour: Bengaluru. On the eve of the 59th Karnataka Rajyotsava, the government on Friday issued a special gazette notification to change the names of 12 cities and town

A private job consultancy firm operating from Shivajinagar has been found to have duped nearly 13,500 job aspirants across the country, sources in the Central Crime Branch (CCB) claimed. On Wednesday, acting on a tip-off by a job aspirant, sleuths busted Exalt Consulting Placement Services Pvt. L

MANGALORE: The government was committed to provide 24X7 uninterrupted power to Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts as the consumers were zero-defaulters, said power minister DK Shivakumar here on Tuesday. He was speaking after inaugurating the Swarna Soudha, the association building of Electrici

BANGALORE: As government doctors resigned en masse, patients in various hospitals run by the state health and family welfare department were left in the lurch with no one to attend to them. Waiting for long hours and clueless about when the doctors will return to work, many patients were seen arguin

BANGALORE : After government doctors threatened to resign en masse on Monday over wage issues, health minister U T Khader on Friday proposed a hike in salaries for nearly 5,000 doctors of the health and family welfare department. But the medical officers have rejected the proposal and will go ahead

Shimoga district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the services being offered by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., a public sector undertaking, be upgraded. A delegation of BJP leaders, comprising Rajya Sabha Member and BJP’s district unit president Ayanur Manjunath, Shikaripur ML

Kundapur: The natural scenic beauty of Maravanthe is going to remain only in memories after the long-awaited conversion of the highway stretch into a four-lane. The task of removing trees standing alongside the stretch of the national highway 66 between Karwar and Kundapur has already begun. A nu

BANGALORE : After government doctors threatened to resign en masse on Monday over wage issues, health minister U T Khader on Friday proposed a hike in salaries for nearly 5,000 doctors of the health and family welfare department. But the medical officers have rejected the proposal and will go ahead

BANGALORE : Twenty years ago, Violet and her husband Alfred Jackson moved into the Home for the Aged, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor on Hosur Road. They came here as they didn't want to burden their married daughter, who lives in Kochi. Today Violet is 80, Alfred is dead but she doesn't feel

Bangalore: The state's long-suffering policemen finally have reason to smile this Diwali. Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday announced an increase in the group insurance cover of police personnel from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh. The scheme, which covered only police constables and orderlies, has

Reduced diesel price would help them to make good the loss, RTCs claim State road transport corporations are unlikely to reduce fares following a reduction in the price of diesel with effect from Saturday midnight. Minister for Transport Ramalinga Reddy said that the reduction may not remain s

Bangalore: Namma Metro has changed commuting in the city in the three years it's been up and running. It's also brought down another bastion of male domination. The nine women loco pilots at the switches on its two routes have inspired admiration among commuters, who seek them out to snap selfies to

Bangalore: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa remained inscrutable as news of the Supreme Court granting her bail was given to her within minutes of the verdict on Friday forenoon, sources privy to the happenings in Central Jail, Parappana Agrahara, said. "Jayalalithaa remained coo

MANGALORE: In perhaps a late realization that wife is the real "better half" in life, a 50-year-old man from Thokkottu near here has filed a police complaint that his wife is missing for the last 10 years. The man wants the police to trace her as he badly needed her to look after his needs as he

Mounds of garbage lying around on street corners are a common sight in Bangalore. But BBMP chief M Lakshminarayana doesn't think so. On Wednesday, when TOI asked him about dengue cases and the mosquito men ace in the city due to uncleared garbage, he said, "It's not fair to blame us as the city i