Food prices skyrocket

Sindhu R, who works in Citibank is a worried woman, and she’s not alone. Just like all of us, she’s struggling to cope with food prices spiralling out of complete control.

A software engineer, who was sent to jail following a dowry harassment case, has killed himself in Parappana Agrahara.

Bescom has won the India Power Awards, 2009, under the category `Energy efficiency, energy conservation & DSM’, for development and demonstration of agricultural demand-side management.

The two LeT terrorists who were handed over to India by Bangladesh Rifles near the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya have reportedly admitted their involvement in the serial blasts that rocked Bangalore last year.

The Karnataka High Court on Saturday granted an interim stay on the November 4 resolution of the Advocates’ Association of Bangalore proposing to abstain from courts on November 9.

This will pinch your pocket. Prices of your morning coffee or fruit juice, atta (flour), utensils and cutlery will be more from April 1, with chief minister B S Yeddyurappa hiking VAT on these items from 4% to 5%.

Film producers of Gandhinagar are running into trouble for defacing city walls. This time, even Hindi film producers will also face the music.

Women who need care and treatment can now go to a medical centre dedicated to their health-related problems.

Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde is fed up with the government’s inaction on his report on illegal mining. Mining is helping only the ‘mafia’ and is of no use to the state or country, he said on Saturday.

Forget about an IIT for Karnataka for some time now. Minister of state for human resource development D Purandeswari, who was in the city on Wednesday, made this clear.

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