Standing out in board exams is no mean achievement and doing so against all odds is indeed extraordinary. There have been at least three instances of brilliance amidst adversities in this year’s II PU examination. The first one is from Raichur district. It was celebration time at Talamari in t

In a move to weed out bogus ration cards and fake beneficiaries, the Food and Civil Supplies Department has made it mandatory for all ration cards holders in the State to register their Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC) number and also that of the adult members of their families with the departme

The Union Ministry of Surface Transport has accorded in principle approval for upgrading seven different stretches of National Highways (NHs) including Bangalore-Mysore in the State, Public Works Department Minister H C Mahadevappa said. Speaking to mediapersons here on Tuesday, he said close to

Bangalore : State Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar has said that the state was presently generating only 7,562 mw of electricity as against the targeted  8,022 mw of electricity. He has said  that one of the two units of the UPCL power plant at Padubidri in Udupi has ceased to function owing to co

Canadian visas and immigration services from Bangalore will be launched by September end. Personnel to handle these two services from the Canadian Consulate General’s office are being recruited and people familiar with the services are being relocated to the Bangalore office. "The exact date o

BANGALORE: Continuing intensive checks on menace of ticketless travelling and unbooked luggage in trains, the railway authorities of the Bangalore division have collected Rs 2.04 crore from offenders in the first three months of 2014. In the check conducted during the last three months (from Janu

With thermal power stations in the State developing technical snags, thus pushing the power shortage to 1,000 megawatts (mw), the State Energy department has now resorted to unscheduled loadshedding to manage the grid. Interestingly, the move comes just two days after Energy Minister D K Shivakum

Bangalore : The Hindu Jana Jagrithi Samithi has strongly condemned the  glorification of Kabeer who was killed in the ANF shoot-out at Shringeri solely for the reason  that he belonged to a particular community. The Samithi has strongly condemned the arrest of the ANF personnel who only did his d

Heavy rain coupled with lightning in parts of the State claimed three lives and caused extensive damage to standing crops on Tuesday. Two workers were killed and three sustained injuries when lightning struck them at Kellaputhige village near Moodbidri in Dakshina Kannada district. The deceased h

BANGALORE: Last week, energy minister DK Shivakumar announced there would be no power cuts this summer. Before citizens could make sense of his statement, their homes were in dark. "Last week, power cuts started as early as 7am. They occur every two hours. There's erratic supply till 6pm. Electri

NEW DELHI: A fire broke out at a slum cluster of close to 500 hutments in Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, an official said on Friday. The fire was reported at 8.30am. According to the official, 28 fire tenders have been rushed to the spot. "We are still in the process of dousing the fire, and the r

BANGALORE: A 16-year-old is on the run after stabbing his father's lover ather housein Metro Layout in Gangondanahalli, north Bangalore, on Tuesday night. The teenager was upset over marital problems between his parents because of his father's illicit relationship with another woman. On Tuesday n

NEW DELHI: It's a low-profile operation but the results are showing. Ever since 60 plainclothesmen on bikes started patrolling three police station areas in south Delhi on Saturday, not one street crime has been reported from their jurisdiction. 'Operation Eagle's Eye', started as a pilot project

Their hearts beat for agriculture and they dream of bringing in a revolution to farming in the country. Gold medallists of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (UAS-B) want to work for strengthening Indian agriculture with technology and empowering it with youth participation. At

Bangalore Urban, Kolar and Udupi districts have not been lucky enough to get the normal pre-monsoon showers from March 1 till Saturday. Elsewhere, lightning, which is a typical phenomenon during the pre-monsoon period, has left 28 persons and 75 cattle dead. The highest deaths due to lightning ha

If all goes well, a special study centre of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will soon be started at the Parappana Agrahara or Bangalore Central Prison. Once started, it will be the first such centre of the university in the State. As a beginning, the study centre will offer a s

Karnataka recorded an overall voting percentage of 67.28 per cent, the third highest in the history of parliamentary elections in the State, in the single-phase polling held for all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies on Thursday. Bangalore urban, which comprises mainly the three LS seats of Bangalor

At least 150 sarees bearing the picture of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on the packets were seized from two shops at Maruti Nagar in BTM Layout, Bangalore South constituency, on Thursday. The sarees, which had come from Surat in Gujarat, were meant to be distributed to women vo