Five islands to get linked
The second phase of the Marine Drive Development project, envisaged by the Greater Cochin Development Authority, will be built by connecting five islands from Chathiyath to Vaduthala, said Kuldip Sing
Major fire guts city ink factory
A massive fire broke out in the storehouse of an ink company, Bharat Flexo Graphic Printing Ink, in Jeedimetla industrial area on Wednesday. As many as 10 fire tenders battled for more than eight hou
A raid on the Constitution?
Physical attacks on young people like the one on youngsters at a homestay in Mangalore recently, are being attributed to the “drinking culture” prevalent among the youth, thus blaming the victims inst
N-E exodus: Thousands flee city
Thousands of students and families from the North-east quit colleges and jobs in the city overnight, locked their homes and rushed to the City Railway Station in a panicked exodus Wednesday night, fea
Shortage of staff hits anti-poaching squad
Wildlife hunting is continuing unabated on the city's outskirts where poachers are using firearms openly.
The Anti Poaching Squad, which has the entire state to cover, and is equipped with only two p
Crime & the city: 16 murders in 15 days!
How safe is Namma Bengaluru any more? There have been 16 murders in 15 days this month, a figure that has unnerved the city police, who are otherwise reluctant to admit that the crime graph is on a st
Crime rising, peace a priority: CM
A few days after asserting in the legislature that there was nothing wrong with the law and order situation, reality seems to have dawned on Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar who admitted during his In
Peer pressure pushes people to get fair
Last week, cosmetologist and dermatologist Dr G.R. Ratnavel had a visitor, a lovely 3-year-old girl accompanied by her mother.
The mother wanted the doctor to make her daughter ‘fair’.“Microdermabra
4.18 million buffaloes yet to litter even once
The fertility rate seems to be dropping all around. While reports say it is dropping among people in the country, its cattle too seem to be procreating less.
In fact, the situation is alarming with
Panic: Packed trains leave city
It was an Independence Day they will not forget. Some 10,000 people from the country’s North-East – students, techies and other professionals who had made Bengaluru home -- rushed to the City Railway