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ATM: A Thief’s Manna

which has about 20 per cent of the 78,950 ATMs under the National Financial Switch (NFS) in the country, is no stranger to innovative thefts from the machines. The most recent cases were reported in L

Flyers wait 18 hrs to fly 80 minutes

As many as 38 air passengers who were to take a flight that would have taken 80 minutes were made to wait for 18 hours before they could take off.

The Air India flight carrying the passengers to Goa

Religion on OMR sheet: Govt move reeks of profiling

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

Pesky SMSes take new avatars

After a tired day at work, as soon as you sit the sack and begin to snore, the sms ‘ping’ wakes you up. You panic wondering what kind of an emergency it could be only to find smses like, Do you want t

GP prez forged papers to lay claim to prime land

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

Women on roads face bus nightmare

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Every day begins and ends with a new nightmare for college girls and working women who step into an MTC bus as the taunts and whistles from young college going men who use the bus route haunt them.

Arrests show shift in terror strategy

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

Jaya flags off 1,000 new buses

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Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa launched 1,000 new buses on Tuesday as part of augmenting the state transport corporation (STC) with 3,000 buses to improve services and provide better facilities to pas

Segregate at source, or else...

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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

AFI leaves a woman athlete in lurch

The final meet of the season nearly turned fatal for LIC’s Arya. The Kerala athlete collapsed midway through the women’s 400m race of the 52nd national open championship at the Nehru Stadium here on T

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.