‘Active citizenry can make a difference’

Change was the catch phrase at the Times NIE Newsmakers’ Meet held in Bangalore on Tuesday.

After coalescing with two political foes for the sake of power and even dethroning one for the same objective, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy is singing a different tune now.

Government doctors are not willing to continue in service if the incentives due for working in rural areas are not released.

Even as some people in their sixties fall victim to dementia, Marxist legend Jyoti Basu’s mind was sharp and agile well into his nineties.

The state has said the universities gave in writing that they will surrender 25% of their seats to the government, and that this condition is part of the deemed university status.

The state government has landed itself in a spot, as its Joint House Committee report on the Bengaluru International Airport has come in for severe criticism from industry captains.

They admitted the BJP is in power not because ‘the people have voted for the BJP’, but because of the ‘mistakes made by the Congress’.

Garden city could soon become concrete city. Bangalore has lost around 50,000 trees in recent years to infrastructure development and nearly 300 more will soon go for the Metro rail project.

The Karnataka Tamil Makkal Iyakkam on Thursday condemned the Indian government for supporting the Sri Lankan government in its cruelties against the Tamils there.

A confrontation between the BJP government and the opposition Congress seems to be on the cards over the latter’s ‘capture Soudha’ protest.

The fact that their newborn baby boy had congenital heart defects hit Basavaraju and Akkamahadevi, a poor young couple of Chilawadagi village in Koppal district, like a bolt from the blue two months ago. They had almost given up hope of the survival of their little one