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When its services are so poor, why is the BBMP preparing to levy 15 per cent of the property tax as Solid Waste Management cess?

Guest column: BBMP's move not rational

The basic duty of any municipality is to keep the city clean and manage its garbage effectively.

28 Dec 2016 3:21 AM IST

All this anxiety, constant precautions and staying alert have become second nature to women in the city.

In Bengaluru, women still wary of cabs

She's one of the many women commuters who are scared and ill-at-ease every time they travel by cab.

28 Dec 2016 3:20 AM IST

Mr Siddaramaiah feels that with just 20-months for the Assembly elections, it would be better to give these posts to the party MLAs and some defeated candidates instead of workers.

Pay property tax promptly: Siddaramaiah

He urged the citizens not to fool the civic body while paying the property tax.

28 Dec 2016 3:17 AM IST

From left: Director Information Department NR Vishu Kumar, Film Director Rajendra Singh Babu, IAS officer Lakshmi Narayan and BIFFES Art director Vidyashankar release the BIFFES brochure in Bengaluru (Photo: KPN)

BIFFES: 180 films to be screened

Lakshminarayan said the list of films selected for the competition section will be announced in the first week of...

28 Dec 2016 3:15 AM IST

The BBMP has now decided to hike the solid waste cess in the name of better management.

Pay higher cess? What rubbish, BBMP!

Will the added cess end up in corrupt contractors' pockets? Or will we actually see more scientific methods of waste...

28 Dec 2016 3:14 AM IST

Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ananth Kumar and Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J. P. Nadda give away awards to students during the 21st convocation of NIMHANS, in Bengaluru on Tuesday KPN

A Nimhans in North Bengaluru next: Nadda

Union health minister assures all help for new trauma centre, calls for providing mental care to rural areas.

28 Dec 2016 3:12 AM IST

Nicholas Reimen

Bengaluru: Frenchman who sold his firm to learn Sanskrit

Techie who came first came to India in 1994, speaks Tamil, Greek, Latin, Hebrew.

28 Dec 2016 3:09 AM IST

the accident spot at Santoshnagar where a motorcyclist died while avoiding a pothole on Sunday has a gradient (Representational image)

Bengaluru: Four killed in separate road accidents

The incident happened around 11.45 am and the deceased has been identified as Imdad Ahmed Lashkar.

28 Dec 2016 3:06 AM IST

The decision sucked 86 per cent of cash out of circulation, forcing millions of people to cut outlays and clog banks in search of money.

Rs 1,414 crore unaccounted wealth unearthed in Karnataka, Goa

The searches also led to the disclosure of total undisclosed income of Rs 1,414 crore from the raided individuals and...

28 Dec 2016 3:04 AM IST

Vikram, the 6-year-old victim, his grieving mother being comforted by relatives.

Lalbagh tragedy: Family blames it on authorities

They refuse to cremate the body until officials assure them of compensation.

28 Dec 2016 2:52 AM IST

Karnataka State Tribal Research Institute (KSRTI) director T.T. Basavanagowda

Not 50, there could be only 35 tribes in Karnataka: Basavanagowda

He feels there is a need to have a microscopic study done to get the exact number of tribes and their status in...

28 Dec 2016 2:07 AM IST

A file photo of veteran BJP leaders K.S. Eshwarappa and B.S. Yeddyurappa

Under BS Yeddyurappa's pressure, KSE's brigade loses its sting

Objective changed after BSY declared brigade not needed to strengthen BJP.

28 Dec 2016 2:00 AM IST