Police get cracking on missing persons

In the wake of a recent Supreme Court order on missing and kidnapped persons, the city police have decided to set up an exclusive bureau.

Na dhainyam, na palayanam (Neither will I have self-pity, nor will I run away). That’s the resolve of ousted rural development and panchayat raj minister Shobha Karandlaje.

Making a difference to the underprivileged by providing food for both body and mind is what Dhyan Foundation, a spiritual and charitable organization, does.

Around 50 TDP legislators were arrested when they staged a sit-in outside the chief minister’s office here on Thursday, demanding that the government immediately halt all activities of illegal mining by the Karnataka tourism minister’s firm.

Bangalore University and the Institute for Social and Economic Change signed a memorandum of understanding for implementing a social science talent search programme, besides academic collaboration.

The noose is tightening around manufacturers who sell spurious and ineffective drugs for a quick buck.

Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Monday criticized governor H R Bharadwaj for the latter’s reported remarks that the state’s law and order situation is poor.

It was virtually Zero Hour (under these rules in the legislature, members can raise any issue) at the BJP’s coordination committee meeting on Wednesday, where for the first time senior leaders gathered to introspect on dissidence.

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’.

After the government’s threat not to issue licence to conduct racing after January 31, the Bangalore Turf Club (BTC) seems to have got a breather, albeit for two weeks.

The cost of the proposed Cauvery Water Supply Scheme’s Stage IV (Phase-II), being taken up with financial assistance from Japan Bank for International Co-operation, has shot up by Rs 442 crore!