Youth dejected over exam ends life

Dejected over not performing well in the recently conducted KPSC examination, a 25-year-old committed suicide at Prakashnagar in Rajajinagar.

Unable to balance his life between two wives, a sweeper in an IT company committed suicide on Thursday afternoon in Hebbugodi, along with the second wife.

It is a science grant offered to the largest number of school children at one go in India’s history. And it beats US, Europe and Japan in scale.

In a tone akin to warning politicians, heavily dependent on the slum vote bank, NGOs demanded a sustainable policy for the urban poor, or face the consequences

Shyalaja Kumar is not very excited about Sree Krishna Jayanthi this year – her little one has been packed off to her home town to escape the swine flu sweeping the metro.

Outgoing Council chairman Veeranna Mathikatti administered the oath to 10 Congress MLCs, four from BJP and and three from JD(S). The elections were held last month.

Hours before the BBMP election code of conduct sets in, commuters seem to be benefiting the most as infrastructure projects pending for long are being inaugurated.

Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday handed over two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, suspected to be involved in the Bangalore blasts that rocked the city on July 25, 2008, to BSF in Meghalaya.

A 26-year-old woman died of swine flu here, taking the toll to 11 in Karnataka which accounts for the second highest fatalities in the country after Maharashtra.

Youths, especially students, are the backbone of sustainable development in the country. They should participate in lower-level governance to put pressure on policy-makers to work for saving natural resources.

Three more persons have been arrested for allegedly being part of the inter-state guns racket that was busted last month.