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Drinking Water Crisis (Representational Image)

Bengaluru: Summer is a month away but state stares at water crisis

Karnataka government is already supplying water through 50 hired water tankers.

17 Feb 2016 6:15 AM IST

Allegedly stole gold and diamond jewels worth Rs 10 lakh. (Representational Image)

Bengaluru: Gang walks away with Rs 10 lakh jewellery in UB City

Bracelet, pair of earrings stolen from the showroom.

17 Feb 2016 6:08 AM IST

Mysuru, which has been ranked as the cleanest city in the country

Will the BBMP wake up to the stink?

The BBMP is banking on a strategy of processing all waste, rather than a smarter one of segregation and local...

17 Feb 2016 3:46 AM IST

The BBMP seems to have made a head start by distributing LED bulbs across the city.

BBMP sees the light, hard sells LED bulbs in Bengaluru

BBMP officials are now distributing free LED bulbs in slums, EWS quarters and similar areas.

17 Feb 2016 3:33 AM IST

Karnataka High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a petition filed by tobacco companies, growers and retailers who have challenged an amendment under the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008 that mandates that tobacco products must display pictorial warnings covering 85 per cent of both sides of the packet.

Warning on cigarette packs: Karnataka High Court unhappy with Centre

The court expressed displeasure over the central government's lack of representation in the case.

17 Feb 2016 3:26 AM IST

Students protest at Bangalore University campus on Tuesday (Photo: DC)

After JNU, Bangalore varsity campus now a war zone

ABVP Vibhag Saha Sanchalak Bengaluru North organization has called for a protest against all the anti-national elements.

17 Feb 2016 3:20 AM IST

There are resident breeding leopard populations in rural areas of Karnataka, outside the protected area.

Guest column: Leopard numbers have increased

Leopard populations have increased and expanded across India, where people tolerate them.

17 Feb 2016 3:00 AM IST

Forest officials set up cage to trap the big cat near in Whitefield, Bengaluru on Tuesday

Bengaluru: Where's leopard? Foresters clueless

BBP rescue centre meant for animals rescued from circuses, and not for robust, active big cats.

17 Feb 2016 2:48 AM IST

A captured wild animal cannot be kept in captivity if it can be rehabilitated. (Representational image)

Forest, not permanent cage, best place for leopard: PeTA

PeTA has shot off a letter to Karnataka Forest Minister Ramanath Rai, reminding him the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.

17 Feb 2016 2:28 AM IST

Ten candidates are in the fray in Bidar, three in Devadurga and 20 in Hebbal. Of the three seats, BJP had held Hebbal and Bidar and Congress Devadurga. (Photo: Twitter)

BJP leads in two, Congress in one in assembly bypolls in Karnataka

BJP is leading in Devadurga and Hebbal constituencies by a margin of 15,025 votes and 16,171 votes.

16 Feb 2016 1:14 PM IST

Offering the only electric crematorium for most of East Bengaluru, where at least 10 bodies are cremated every day, Kalpalli burial ground is cramped and filthy to say the least.

Kalpalli burial ground: Graveyard of dignity, disrespecting the dead

Bengaluru's crematoria and burial grounds are a crying shame.

16 Feb 2016 4:37 AM IST

Had Mr Handigund filed a case when the incident took place, the Lokayukta extortion scam could have been exposed then itself.

Karnataka Lokayukta scam accused abducted tahsildar: AAP

AAP convener in the state, said that the Tahsildar of Bengaluru North (Additional) Taluk was the one who was kidnapped...

16 Feb 2016 4:15 AM IST