If a sharp knock on the door is heard, as if a woodpecker is at it, it will be Ganapathi paying his annual visit to our home to ‘do’ the sabhas in December. This worthy, hailing from Thanjavur, is dom

The state government on Thursday informed the Andhra Pradesh High Court that Hyderabad, perched atop the Deccan plateau with its rocky terrain, is not suitable for an underground metro rail.

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With new garbage contractors lined up, the BBMP is confident that the garbage mess dogging the city can be tackled effectively. But it may just have to contend with problems from another quarter, whic

The Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the Assembly, which met on Thursday, has decided to hold a three-day session from Friday to transact the SC/ST Sub Plan Bill.

Initially, the government propo

Despite the Union government chalking out major plans for Aadhaar-enabled social services in Karnataka, the State government has not launched Phase II of Aadhaar enrolments. A target of 4 crore enrolm

A woman burnt the cheeks of her seven-year-old daughter with a hot spatula on Wednesday evening for allegedly taking Rs 10 without informing her in Andhra Pradesh.

The incident, which took place at K

Three armed masked burglars, who barged into a house in Belgaum and tried to rob a family of three, were outwitted by a 47-year-old housewife, who kicked one of them in the groin and let loose the fam

Members of an organisation noticed burn injuries on Vasantha’s cheeks when she was walking on the road and informed the Child Line.

On Thursday morning members of Child Line reached the area to gath

One person was killed and three persons incl­u­ding an assistant di­r­e­c­tor, mines, Ka­nchipur­am, were inj­u­r­ed when men hurled country-made bombs at the veh­i­­cle they were travelli­ng in So­m­

The sons of two Congress ministers were suspended from the Youth Congress on Thursday for non-performance.

Baswaraju Sriman, son of BC welfare minister Baswaraju Saraiah, and Porika Sai Shankar, son