Pak diplomat named in spy case FIR
A Pakistani diplomat based in Colombo has been named in the First Information Report (FIR) in the espionage case busted by the Tamil Nadu police by arresting his alleged ‘contact’ in Tamil Nadu on Mon
Uproar in BBMP council over garbage bids
The BBMP council witnessed acrimonious scenes on Friday as corporators opposed the garbage tenders floated on Tuesday night by keeping the council, the standing committee on health, the ruling party a
Cops told not to pay rent for station
Following a DC report about a private party encroaching upon government poramboke land and renting it out for a police station, revenue authorities in the city swung into action.
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Female infanticide: Fathers biggest enemies of girl child
Next month, she would have completed one year. But that was not to be. On September 18, the 11-month-old baby girl reportedly died under mysterious circumstances at her home in Bengaluru North when bo
Chennai turns city of ‘aging hearts’, says survey
Chennai has become a city of ageing hearts, according to a nationwide survey released on Friday.
Grappling with high levels of ‘bad cholesterol’, the people of Chennai are among the most overweight i
Nagaland youth stabbed, hate attacks back in Bengaluru
A 20-year-old BPO employee in Bengaluru, a native of Nagaland was stabbed by two unidentified bike-borne attackers in Hosur Main Road early Sunday at around 2.30 am.
The victim was getting out of an
Shun hatred towards other faiths: Rajapaksa
While he was attempting to enter Sanchi defying police orders, MDMK leader Vaiko was on Friday arrested along with nearly 750 supporters at Gadchicholi village near the Madhya Pradesh-Maharastra borde
Biodiversity in Hyderabad has taken a hit: GHMC study
The biodiversity index of Greater Hyderabad has revealed a huge decline in various native species, with the number of fish species down from 78 to 12 in city lakes and amphibian species badly affected
Granite scam: Call to book IAS officers
With two serving IAS officers being chargesheeted in the multi-crore granite scam, a Madurai-based NGO has demanded that the government book all the IAS officers who had administered the Madurai distr
Contractors on flash strike, CoP works stop
Contractors working for the GHMC went on a flash strike on Friday evening and brought to a halt Rs 370-crore civic works, including the Rs 170-crore city beautification works for the global biodiversi