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Exodus of northeast people from Bengaluru continues

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Fear-struck people from the northeast continued to flee the city for the second day on Thursday as the Karnataka government assured them safety and launched confidence building measures, including police patrolling in areas largely inhabited by them.

11-year-old girl set ablaze in Bengaluru

An 11-year-old girl suffered serious burns when she was set ablaze by some unidentified persons when she was on her way to school near here on Thursday, police said.

Police said the girl was admitted

Colours of freedom

It was festivity tinged with a good dose of patriotism. Hawkers selling national flags, badges, and tricolour balloons found willing buyers on the roads leading to the Manekshaw Parade Grounds where

Patients in dilemma as hospitals shut early

While the city celebrated the country’s independence, the sick had a harrowing time as almost all government hospitals closed their Out-Patient Departments (OPD) at 1 p.m. Several patients were seen

MLAs on foreign jaunts

The severe drought which has gripped 142 taluks in the state, has not deterred MLAs and MLCs from going on foreign jaunts utilising public funds. Come September, the legislators who are part of three

Caste factor: Shankar challenges Shamanur

In a veiled attack against veteran Congress leader and Lingayat strongman Shamanur Shivashankarappa, vice president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, B. L. Shankar, on Tuesday asked party worke

Bail terms relaxed, BSY free to leave city

Former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and his family members, including his two sons and son-in-law, are now free to leave Bengaluru with the high court on Tuesday relaxing one of the main conditions

Jayalalithaa case trial: Acharya quits in a huff

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Senior counsel and former Advocate General B.V. Acharya has resigned as Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. In his re

BMTF chief gets marching orders

Bengaluru Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) chief, R. P. Sharma, who tried to shake things up in the corporation and weed out the inefficient and corrupt, has been given the marching orders. With his mo

Kidnappers free elderly couple as cops close in

Two elderly citizens, who were kidnapped, were left off on Monday night by their captors, who feared that the police were closing in on them. Mr Ugranarashima (65) and his wife Anasuya (60) were kidn

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