After months of speculation over BBMP ward reservation, the list was finally announced on Monday.

Producer of Kannada hit `Mungaru Male’, E Krishnappa, retiring MLCs Naseer Ahmed, N Manjunath, Veerakumar A Patil and Pratap Chandra Shetty, former legislators Mahima Patel and T John are among the candidates finalized for elections to 25 MLC seats from local authorities constituencies.

Former Congress minister Basavaraj Patil Humnabad quit the party on Monday after his efforts to bag the Bidar MLC seat failed.

For walking Rs 200, for breathing Rs….? Evenings are fun, but not when I need an ID card to run! Many more such banners and placards were raised by over 250 protesters on Cubbon Road to protest against the conditional access to public spaces.

University vice-chancellors appealed to the chancellor and governor H R Bhardwaj that only eminent educationists be chosen as syndicate members.

Here is some good news on World AIDS Day: the incidence of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) has declined from 1.5% to 0.86% in Karnataka.

A unique rehabilitation centre for orphans and vulnerable children is taking shape in Bijapur district. They may have no one in the wide world, but together, will form a family — living and working together.

Depression kills HIV/Aids patients faster than the virus within them.

Sluggishness on the part of the National AIDS Control Organization is proving deadly for infants: their budding lives are cut short, as they die of infections, undiagnosed.

Tailor Bose, one of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan’s associates, who was in Parappana Agrahara jail, died of a heart problem on Monday at Victoria Hospital.