IAS officer to clean up mess at BU?
Following the Karnataka high court order against Bangalore University (BU) registrar Prof. B.C. Mylarappa, the state government has decided to remove him from his post and make adhoc arrangements till
Judge tells BBMP how to do it
After months of negligent waste disposal, and failing to satisfy the Karnataka High Court that it was capable of hewing to the task, a bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen gave the inept state
Welcome to Ejipura City’s own landfill
To the rest of the city mounds of uncleared garbage on the streets may be a new experience, but in the Ejipura slum the people have become accustomed to living with them. Half-clothed, barefoot childr
Students were forced to hold him
Five-year-old Anjaneya Reddy's mother, Ganga Maheswari said, “The teacher, without ascertaining the facts, forced my son to drink urine. When my boy resisted, she asked the students to hold his hands
Rain to hit coastal areas
With the well-marked low pressure weakening in the Bay of Bengal, most places in the north coastal districts of Tamil Nadu would receive rainfall on Friday.
Weathermen have said that scattered rainfa
No water tariff hike in SCB now
The Secunderabad Canton-ment Board is likely to spare residents within its limits from an immediate drinking water tariff hike.
The elected ward members, led by vice-president B. Narmada, deferred th
Court pulls up government advocates
The Madras high court has pulled up government advocates for voluntarily taking notice for autonomous bodies such as co-operative societies and panchayats. The court has directed the commissioner o
5-yr-old boy caned cruelly by principal
A five-year-old LKG student was beaten mercilessly by the principal of his school, the Orbit Grammar School at Indira Gandhi Puram on Wednesday. The incident came to light on Thursday when the parents
675 more buses rolled out
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in keeping with her commitment of fulfilling the public transportation needs of the state, introduced a fleet of 675 new buses and launched 286 new routes for State Tra
Actress Ramya’ s house burgled
At least 50 sovereigns of gold ornaments were reportedly stolen from the house of actress Ramya Krishnan in Injambakkam near Neelankarai.
The police, who have detained the domestic help in connection