Is it any wonder that the BBMP is not taken seriously when it fails to not just follow through on its promises, but also on measures intended to save the city’s environment? It was in March last year

Starting October 1, segregate garbage at source or pay penalty, said Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy on Wednesday. Two days after the HC flayed the BBMP for not making segregation at source mandatory, the

There is some confusion about the appointment of the Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University (BU) Dr N. Prabhudev as the head of the proposed Karnataka State Rural Health Education Commission, with th

The state-wide indefinite bus strike beginning Thursday morning could see thousands of bus passengers stranded as over one lakh drivers, conductors and other staff of the four road transport corpora

Former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has asserted once again that he is not eyeing the BJP state president’s post which will have to be vacated by Mr K.S. Eshwarappa after his appointment as deputy

The city police claim to have busted an international racket in counterfeiting currency and sale of illegal weapons with the arrest of nine people. Police have recovered fake notes with a face value o

The appearance of a column for specifying the religion of students in the OMR sheets for the SSLC examination, 2013, has kicked off a row, even more so as they are required to specify whether they b

One more case of misuse of missing land records at Jala Hobli has come to light. The Lokayukta police investigating a private complaint against the Doddajala gram panchayat president have obtained the

Top level sources in government have told Deccan Chronicle that the strategy adopted by the new terror modules that were busted by Karnataka police last month had shifted from mass terror to high valu

The state government was seriously considering introducing rules and regulations for penalising those disposing of waste in hazardous and unscientific ways, law and parliamentary affairs and urban de