Observing that provisions of the Tree Act are grossly insufficient to respond to the complexities of current problems, the high court on Wednesday adjourned the PIL against felling of hundreds of tree

A private complaint has been filed against former Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath, Bengaluru Urban Deputy Commissioner M.K. Aiyappa and others for allegedly grantin

The ‘peaceful’ Cauvery movement took a violent turn on Wednesday with protesters resorting to stone-throwing, leaving many injured. Around 20,000 protesters assembled at the north gate of Krishnaraja

Karnataka is in the throes of the second worst drought since 1971 with 157 taluks out of the 175 having been declared drought hit. With an average deficit of 26 per cent in rainfall in the entire stat

Just days after an advertising executive and her friend were harassed by the traffic police, there are reports of a disc jockey being brutally beaten up by the traffic police in the city. The higher-u

Bengaluru may have a place on the world map as a progressive city, but scratch beneath the surface and every single age-old stereotypical type of gender discrimination against young females is intact

Though the government has come up with several policies to eliminate gender disparity and making education universal and compulsory for all, yet the ground reality still remains different.

When Sumitra Gandhi Kulkarni, granddaughter of Gandhiji, stepped onto the dais to commemorate her grandfather on his birthday, she was asked, by popular request, to speak in Hindi. The picture of simp

Bengaluru has the highest incidence of breast cancer cases among top metros in the country. With the occurrence rate of 36.1 per 1,00,000 female, it is higher than Mumbai at 32.3, New Delhi at 32.3, C

The city responded a little better to segregation of waste at source on Tuesday with the Yelahanka zone performing the best, meeting nearly 100 per cent of the target set. But areas like RT Nagar, Ra