Chief minister Jagadish Shettar’s announcement last weekend of a week-long ceasefire from September 17 to 23 to facilitate the surrender of Naxalites has taken the state police by surprise, as none of

In perhaps the first-ever case of conviction under the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, 1956 in the recent past, the City Fast Track (Sessions) Court on Wednesday convicted five accused, includin

The 84 people, majority of who were Sri Lankan refugees from various camps in Tamil Nadu, rescued on September 8 by the Mangalore police from being smuggled to Australia would have died mid-way, said

Nearly three months after Pascal Mazurier, the consular attaché to the Consulate General of France in Bengaluru, was arrested for allegedly raping his then three-and-a- half-year-old daughter, it is r

A majority of the children begging on the City roads could be victims of human trafficking and forced displacement by an organised mafia, which thrives on the business of child beggary. In a first eve

Terror handlers used provocative visuals of Godhra riots and hate speeches by right-leaning Hindu activists to enlist and indoctrinate young and well-educated professionals into their network, the arr

Suspicious phone calls allegedly made to one private phone number in Saudi Arabia from a cell phone in Bengaluru were intercepted by the counter-intelligence cell of Andhra Pradesh, which immediately alerted the central crime branch of the Bengaluru police. The CCB had also collected technical and human intelligence on the caller ID and the nature of the calls being made reportedly from Muthi-ur-Rehman.

A fortnight after the hate campaign, allegedly laun-ched by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, triggered a mass exodus of northeasterners from Bengaluru, the city police cracked a huge network of sleeper cells of alleged terrorists owing allegiance to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Harkat-ul-Jihad-Al-Islami (HuJI).

A fortnight after the hate campaign, allegedly launched by Pakistan’s ISI, which triggered the mass exodus of North Easterners from Bengaluru, the Central Crime Branch of the City police cracked a hug

Even while the mounting problem of garbage heaps across the City is threatening to break into a health epidemic, the city's apex civic authority is mulling to double the garbage cess from hapless, ang