Traffic cops hit dead end, CCB takes over
Justice continues to elude construction worker Nagaraj, 22, who was reportedly mowed down by 37-year-old Manjula alias Mahi, who was allegedly at the wheel of the killer SUV (Toyota Fortuner bearing t
NREGA: Contractor mafia behind deaths?
Karnataka’s shame: Three newly-recruited village development officers (VDOs) in the age group of 23 to 25 years, including a woman officer, have reportedly ended their lives in a span of six months in
Crimes against children in focus
Crimes against children, which were being swept under the carpet till now, are coming into the open after the French consulate officer Pascal Mazurier was accused of allegedly raping his three-and-a-h
Crime graph on rise, but what’s the truth?
The record of crimes portray Bengaluru as an unsafe city, especially for women, but an analysis of the crimes reported or complaints lodged at various police stations tells a different story.
Accord
State stares at worst drought in 4 decades
The first big test for new Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is coping with what is turning out to be Karnataka’s worst drought in the last four decades. With a rainfall deficit of around 40 per cent,
‘Jundal lying about Hamza’
The city police are not willing to buy the reported statement of 26/11 handler Syed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal that the main accused in the December 2005 Indian Institute of Science attack — Abu Hamza
DNA test links Pascal to victim
The confidential DNA report of French consulate official Pascal Mazurier, arrested on charges of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, has reportedly nailed him on one count and “spared” him
Diplomat semen on girl’s clothes
The confidential DNA report of French consulate official Pascal Mazurier, arrested on charges of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, has reportedly nailed him on one count and “spared” him on the other.
“There is no evidence of spermatic fluid on the foreside and backside of the swabs of the victim but the stain on the garments matches the DNA of the accused — Mr Mazurier,” said a highly placed source.
Lankan airmen forced out of chennai
Contrary to reports that nine Sri Lankan airmen, being trained at Tambaram Air Force Station, Chennai, had been sent to the Air Force Station, Yelahanka, Bengaluru, after Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha objected to the Sri Lankan Air Force officials being trained in Tamil Nadu, sources at the base told this newspaper that they had not yet arrived and expressed doubts they would.
Is this government punch drunk?
The government’s education campaign for the public says, “don’t drink”, but its diktat to pubs and bars is to compulsorily “lift” 52 cases — around 460 litres — of the euphemistically named Indian Mad