Man electrocuted, 3 injured at building site
A 30-year-old construction worker was killed and three others were injured when they came in contact with a high-tension wire in Girinagar on Tuesday. Of the four, Dodda Mallappa died on Wednesday. Th
‘I wish I were dead’
“I wish I were dead,” wails Asha Rani, the traumatised 19-year-old, thrown from the moving Yeshwanthpur-Mysore train by a group of four young men who not only harassed and pushed her through the bogie
Gadkari envoy cools BSY ire
In an indication of how seriously the BJP’s national president is taking the power struggle within the Karnataka state unit, Nitin Gadkari dispatched his trusted aide Sanjay Joshi —the very same man h
Karnataka to install CCTV cameras in Bengaluru, major cities
The Karnataka government is in the process of installing CCTV cameras at strategic locations here and in other major cities of the State to help detect incidents of crime, Home Minister R. Ashoka said
Electronics industry projected to cross Rs 10000 crore
Modernisation plans coupled with an "extraordinary budget allocation" in the defence sector has fuelled growth in the country's electronics industry and it is projected to cross Rs 10000 crore during
FTC dismisses bail plea of French diplomat Pascal
A Fast Track court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of French Consulate official Pascal Mazurier, arrested on charge of raping his four-year-old daughter, on the ground that there was ‘direct evide
Lokpal: Students solidly behind Anna
Despite it being a week day thousands turned up for the first day of the indefinite hunger protest spearheaded by Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption, headed in Bengaluru by former Lokayukta Justic
Census 2011: Vehicles override bicycles on city roads
While most of us are fed up with traffic jams, vehicle pollution etc., a micro analysis of Census 2011 has revealed that compared to other districts and cities of the state, the number of bicycles in
JLR Shuts Operations in Tiger Reserves
The forest department has suspended all safaris in the State’s tiger reserves from Tuesday morning.
The Supreme Court’s interim order banning tourism activities in the core areas of tiger reserves has
Freeze on G-category sites since May last
The state government has freezed the allotment of sites under discretionary quota (G category sites) from May 19 last year, disclosed Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar in the legislative assembly on Wed