India, B'desh border force chiefs to meet today
Transborder crimes, activities of insurgent groups based in Bangladesh and cattle smuggling will be discussed thoroughly during the upcoming meeting of border guarding forces of India and Bangladesh...
View ArticleSC quizzes Bihar in Shahabuddin trial
The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Bihar government over delay in the prosecution of ex-RJD MP Shahabuddin in the case of murder of a man, who was a witness to the killing of his two...
View ArticleDefamation: court grants relief to Rahul in RSS case
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appeared before a Guwahati court in connection with a criminal defamation case filed against him by the RSS. The chief judicial magistrate granted Rahul...
View ArticleMeet came close to deal, but politics played spoilsport
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu came close to clinching a deal at the meeting on the Cauvery row here on Thursday. But politics seems to have played spoilsport.Sources closely involved in the deliberations...
View ArticleRefusal to release water, deliberate defiance of SC order: Jayalalithaa
Terming Karnatakas refusal to release Cauvery water as "deliberate defiance", Tamil Nadu on Thursday said the act of the neighbouring state goes against the spirit of the Constitution and amounts to...
View ArticleWomen demand arrest of Dadri victim's brother
Tension returned to Dadri's Bisada village in Uttar Pradesh exactly a year after a Muslim man, Mohammed Akhlaq, was lynched over rumours of consuming beef. Women members of several Hindu families,...
View ArticleSC to hear Cauvery case today, Karnataka to stick to its stand
Karnataka has decided to stick to its stand not to release any water to Tamil Nadu when the Supreme Court hears the Cauvery water dispute case on Friday.Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who was here to...
View ArticleNo breakthrough in Cauvery talks
A meeting chaired by Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on the Cauvery impasse on Thursday failed to achieve a breakthrough in resolving the differences between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over...
View ArticleSwift operation took days of planning
The surgical strike that lasted barely four hours was planned for days. In the intervening night of September 28-29, five crack Indian Army commando teams were dropped from helicopters near the Line of...
View ArticleArmy targets terror camps in PoK
India on Thursday announced carrying out surgical strikes on terrorist camps across the Line of Control, marking the first military response to the attack on the Indian Army camp at Uri by...
View ArticleShakti Sinha is Nehru library chief
Shakti Sinha, who served as a private secretary to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is the new director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML). The Centre has appointed the retired...
View ArticleJudge held over Rs 22-lakh bribe
A senior civil judge, her husband and a lawyer were arrested here on Thursday on charges of demanding a bribe of Rs 22 lakh from a person to settle a complaint in his favour.Searches conducted at the...
View ArticleKejriwal vows explosive revelations in Assembly today
On the eve of a special Assembly session, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal released a video message on Thursday to declare his intentions of exposing the conspiracy behind the arrest of ruling...
View ArticleSchool bus crashes into wall; two children, driver injured
A bus belonging to the Delhi Public School Bangalore North, ferrying about 50 students, crashed into the school compound on Thursday morning, injuring the driver and two students. The driver was trying...
View ArticleSteel flyover, a project sans vision
Urban mobility experts have branded the Rs 1,791 crore Chalukya Circle steel flyover a project without vision and a devious ploy to misuse public money. They urged the government to focus, instead, on...
View ArticleFree health check-up for senior citizens
KITES is organising a free health check-up camp for senior citizens on the occasion of International Day of Older Persons on October 1. People aged 60 years and above can utilise the benefits of the...
View ArticleWill rid city of slums: minister
Social Welfare Minister H Anjaneya on Thursday said the state government is moving steadily to create a slum-free Bengaluru and in this regard, funds will be released for building houses for the urban...
View ArticleStudents, cops raise awareness on road safety
The traffic police joined students of Lisaa School of Design and Creo Valley School of Film and Television to educate traffic violators on Thursday by adopting the Gandhigiri approach. They distributed...
View ArticleSeries of events marks World Heart Day
As part of the World Heart Day, which was observed on Thursday, several awareness events were held in the city. Tathagat Hospital and Mallige Hospital organised a walkathon from Freedom Park to Mantri...
View ArticleTumakuru cops to file chargesheet in PU leak case
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) team which probed the II PU Chemistry question paper leak has decided to direct the inspector of New Extention police station, Tumakuru, to file an...
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