Bangalore: Weeks after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa was forced to appear in front of trial court in Bangalore in a 1996 disproportionate assets case against her, a controversial twist in the tale. Special public prosecutor BV Acharya claims the BJP government in the state is trying to weaken the case against her and had tried to make him quit as prosecutor. Acharya claims that the...
11:39 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Bangalore: A day after three Karnataka BJP ministers were caught watching an obscene clip in the Assembly, the party has shown them the door. Three ministers, CC Patil, Lakshmana Savadi and Krishna Palemar, who were caught watching porn in the Karnataka Assembly have been barred from attending the Assembly till the probe into the matter is over. A six-member committee has been formed to look into the matter and the...
06:50 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Bangalore: In an embarrassment for the BJP, two Karnataka ministers were caught watching obscene content inside the state Assembly. The two ministers are Karnataka Co-operation Minister Laxman Savadi and Karnataka Women and Child Welfare Minister CC Patil. Speaker KG Bopaiah, though, refused to meet the media, saying he will take action on Wednesday when the House meets again. But the BJP will have a lot of explaining to do. BJP...
06:47 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Bangalore: The Antrix-Devas controversy has been showing no signs of blowing over. Portions from a report by a former chief vigilance commissioner have been made public. It says there are discrepancies in the way ISRO attempted to sell the precious radio wave spectrum to a private company. The offensive from the government continued. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy said, "Madhavan Nair also appeared personally before...
11:47 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan says there is no vendetta politics in the blacklisting of former chief G Madhavan Nair following his indictment in the Antrix-Devas deal. Radhakrishnan on Monday spoke out for the first time on the Antrix-Devas deal investigation report, which indicted Nair and three other senior scientists. Radhakrishnan refuted Nair's allegations, saying that all that he has to say has been said in...
11:30 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan says there is no vendetta politics in the blacklisting of former chief G Madhavan Nair following his indictment in the Antrix-Devas deal. Radhakrishnan on Monday spoke out for the first time on the Antrix-Devas deal investigation report, which indicted Nair and three other senior scientists. Radhakrishnan refuted Nair's allegations, saying that all that he has to say has been said in...
11:30 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore: As school admission fees are becoming a burden on the parents, the Karnataka government has fixed a 30 per cent profit margin for private schools. This after parents protested against the alarming rise in the admission costs. The ever rising cost of a school education is a biting reality for parents and Ashok Kumar Adiga President of the Parents' Association last year decided to fight against it. "What is...
06:23 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore: Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair on Wednesday lashed out at the Prime Ministers Office for its order barring him and three of his colleagues from holding government posts for their alleged involvement in the controversial Antrix-Devas S-band spectrum deal. Nair did not spare his successor, K Radhakrishnan, either. "This is a clear attempt to tarnish our images and I can see the personal agenda of current Chairman Radhakrishnan...
08:50 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Bangalore: Trio World School prides itself on world standards and the best international exposure for its kids. But it is now in the news for the wrong reasons. Headmaster Paul Meekin - a UK citizen - was arrested on Sunday by the Bangalore police on charges of child abuse. B Dayananda, Joint Commissioner, Bangalore East, said, "He has been charged under the IT Act and the Juvenile Justice Act. He...
07:23 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: In Bangalore, the headmaster of a premier school has been arrested on charges of child abuse. This after a complaint was lodged by parents of one of the students. The headmaster of Trio International School, Paul Mikken, a UK citizen is currently out on bail. The police had booked him under the Juvenile Justice Act. This is also the same school which urged its students to add their...
03:18 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Medium pacer Irfan Pathan has been selected to play for India in the Australia tri-series. ...
02:14 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Bangalore: Cows and sheep took the government by its horns on Tuesday. At the Bangalore Development Authority's head-office, just off the road to the airport and barely a kilometre from the Chief Minister's residence, farmers staged a protest along with their families and their cattle. They want higher compensation for their land along the 63-km-long Peripheral Ring Road being built by the BDA. And while the jury is still not...
11:52 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Bangalore: Dr Sriram Ramaswamy won the Infosys Prize 2011 for Physical Sciences. He used his knowledge of theoretical physics to crack a question commonly asked in biology. Thanks to his research, we now have answers to some of the mysteries of the laws of nature. How does a flock of birds move in perfect harmony? Or a herd of animals? Dr Sriram Ramaswamy replied, "There is this Hindi word 'bhedchaal',...
10:00 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Bangalore: Industrial Designer Neelam Chibber founded Mother Earth with the aim of providing markets for rural craftsmen. Chibber and her efforts to give a facelift to rural craftsmanship have not gone unnoticed. Twenty-three-year-old R Satish, a member of the self-help group Ashraya, goes to his busy workshop every morning. His job is to put finishing touches to boxes made of river grass. He says: "This will be useful in future....
02:15 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Bangalore: Six people have been convicted in Indian Institute of Science (IISc) terror attack case by a Bangalore fast track court on Saturday. The court will announce the quantum of punishment in the case on Monday. One of the accused has been acquitted. Police had charged the accused under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 120 B, 121, 121A, Section 3 and 4 of Explosive Substances Act, Sections 25 and 26...
04:09 PM, Dec 17, 2011
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