Chintalnar : After 12 days of captivity, Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon, 32, was finally released on Thursday evening by Maoists, ending the tense hostage crisis in Chhattisgarh. As evening set in, a weary looking but relaxed collector, wearing a light blue shirt and a hand bag hanging from his right shoulder, emerged out of [...]

Bangalore: The city police have confirmed that a 26-year old Bollywood starlet from Mumbai, Sanah Khan was running a Sex-Work establishment, and earning daily Rs 70 to 80 thousand in this illegal criminal activity, near the Asoka Pillar constructed at Jayanagar. Police waited at the pillar to apprehend people who were behaving oddly. A middle-aged [...]

Bangalore: A 60-year-old man died in Bangalore after being assaulted by two teenagers. The man, identified as Alageshan was beaten up by two teenagers who he had reportedly warned against sexually harassing his niece. The police said that Alageshan confronted the two boys on Monday night. When he slapped one of them, they in turn [...]

Bangalore: White-haired, Union leader and former treasurer Pundalik Halambi, who served as Treasurer the Kannada Sahitya Parishat for 14 years, was elected on Tuesday President for a new 3-year term, defeating his nearest rival( and former KSP President) Champa, as 24th chief of Kannada Sahitya Parishat. For Dr. Chandrashekhar Patil, it was the second straight [...]

Bangalore: The United Breweries(UB) city built on V. Mallya Road is being sold for lease, with the original ownership retained by baron Vijay Mallya, sources close to him told on Wednesday. There is a fixed period during which the leaseholder can enjoy possession of the newly built city behind the Vittal Mallya hospital in city. [...]

Bangalore: Bellary rural MLA B. Sriramalu has undertaken a journey on foot to move through drought-affected Talukas in Karnataka, and has completed a distance of 940km walking and covering many dry districts where cattle had no green fodder or pasture, and rural families had no drinking water, and workers went out of hometowns to seek [...]

Bangalore: The state govt has decided to in crease the distance now available at 50 Km, to 60 Km, for student bus-passes, to those who undertake travel daily. Transport minister R. Ashok said that students could travel up to 60kms to reach Schools on concessional rates. He spoke to pressmen after dedicating a set of [...]

Bangalore: It is Workers Day all over the world, when red flowers bloom on roadside trees, and workers move in procession, to express their joyous ful in a careless way. Law minister Suresh Kumar took a Sweeper in hand and swept the road on May Day, saying workers like farmers are the backbone of the [...]

Bangalore: An IFS Official S. Muthaiah who is alleged to have let G. Janardhan Reddy owned Associated Mining company (AMC), illegally explait valuable iron are in Bellary forests, has been arrested by CBI officers on Monday, along with a former deputy director of Mines department working at Hospet, S.P. Raju. Both the accused persons (Muthaiah [...]

Bangalore: The new Mayor D. Venkatesha Murthy presided over the first common review meeting of BBMP in city at its central hall, when BJP corporator N.R. Ramesh demanded strict action against those municipal officials without any mercy, for their indiscreet act of permitting the use of OFC cables in city without an thorisation to favour [...]