Mazurier charged
The city police have filed a formal interim chargesheet, charging French diplomat Pascal Mazurier with raping his three-and-half-year-old daughter. “The city police have chargesheeted Mr Mazurier unde
No Indian will rocket into space for next five years
India’s plans to put a second native son into space, the first from an indigenously made Indian space rocket in the next five years, have fizzled out.
Dr K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman, Indian Space Rese
‘No human space flight before ’17’
It is official. Indians cannot look forward to a ride into space for at least another five years.
Metro has smart option for travellers
Namma Metro’s Reach-1 will complete one year of operation in October and the 6.7 km-long stretch sees a passenger inflow of around 25,000 every day. The next big launch will be that of Reach-3 in a co
Chase by traffic police killed 55-yr-old motorist?
Yet another life was lost when traffic police allegedly jumped at a motorbike rider for riding without a helmet on Magadi Road on Sunday. Balakrishnan, a 55-year old motorbike rider and a resident of
Changing rain pattern affecting city’s bird migration
The weak monsoon over Bengaluru and other parts of the state has hit the annual bird migration. The warblers which arrive in the city by mid-August have given a miss this year. It’s September already
SIM sham! Cloners on prowl
With people already wary of lottery scandals, are scamsters turning to SIM card cloning? Airtel users received messages on Sunday from what seemed to be the service provider asking customers to switch
Week’s truce: Will Reds escape or surrender?
Will the week-long ceasefire offered by the state government motivate the Maoists, holed up in the hills of Malnad, to surrender or give them crucial time to move to safer areas? The Anti-Naxal Force
Missile shield faces a test
While talk of India developing a ballistic missile defence system or a Ballistic Missile Shield have been doing the rounds since 1997 or so, it was only recently that the top brass of Defence Research
Everyone can change, prisoners too: Aida
Philanthropy is greatest when it comes from the heart. Aida Margaret D’Cunha is now the chairperson of the Federation of Konkan Catholic Association, the vice president of Abhay, an NGO working toward