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Garbage piled up at Harris Road, Benson Town, Bangalore. Photo: Nithish P. Byndoor
BBMP computer operators call off strike
The computer operators of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, who were on an indefinite strike demanding their pending salaries, temporarily called off their strike on Wednesday.
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Roads turn pools as city gets heavy rain in two hours
Heavy rain accompanied by hail storm and gusty winds lashed the city late on Wednesday night. In about two hours, the city received nearly 36 mm of rainfall.
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‘Gender disparity in access to ICT a global phenomenon’
Gender disparity in access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the opportunities they create are not common to the United States or India, said U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Alyssa Ayres on Wednesday.
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Water supply resumes in Bangalore
Bangaloreans can heave a sigh of relief as of now. With water level at the Shiva Balancing Reservoir (SBR) stabilising following the release of water from Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) dam and Hemavathi river, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has resumed pumping from all its reservoirs from Tuesday.
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
Bride-to-be found murdered
A 25-year-old bank employee, engaged to get married on Wednesday, was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in Yeshwanthpur on Tuesday.
The deceased has been identified as Ramya,...
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
BBMP uses street plays to promote waste segregation
Following the success of street plays performed in the run up to the Assembly elections to create voter awareness, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is trying to promote the idea of waste seg...
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
BBMP gears up for the monsoon
To prevent possible rain damages ahead of the monsoon, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has taken up a cleaning programme in the city’s prime roads in each zone on Tuesday. Dur...
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BANGALORE,
May 23, 2013
Heads of authorities ‘outrank’ Kannada and Culture Minister
The Department of Kannada and Culture is in the hands of Minister of State Umashree, who has been given independent charge.
It is an embarrassing situation of sorts for the Minister becau...
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
Medical colleges in all districts for the benefit of poor students
The State government has proposed to establish medical colleges in each one of the districts for the benefit of poor students and to ensure the availability of quality healthcare facility everywhe...
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
One more meeting to decide PG medical admissions
With just eight days to go for the completion of admissions for postgraduate medical courses in the State, the government seems to be in two minds on its consensual agreement with the private unai...
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Bangalore,
May 22, 2013
Art and the human psyche
The human figure is the leitmotif in Ramesh Chandra’s series of watercolours on display at the Tangerine Art Space. Ramesh uses the human figure to express human psyche, which he feels is full of...
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BANGALORE,
May 22, 2013
Transformers: too close for comfort?
BANGALORE,
May 23, 2013
Less-heard voices get a platform
Sangama, a human rights organisation that works for the benefit of sexuality minorities, organised a ‘Lesbian, bisexual women, female to male transgender advocacy programme’ to bring out the vario...
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
Head constable accused of beating up man
A police head constable has been booked on charges of beating up a 38-year-old private firm employee in Subramanyapura on Tuesday night. The incident occurred after the victim demanded a receipt f...
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BANGALORE,
May 23, 2013
28,220 passport appointments will be available today
As a one-time relief to passport applicants, the regional passport office will give appointments for the next 17 working days in one shot through passportindia.gov.in, starting 6.30 p.m. on Thursd...
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BANGALORE,
May 23, 2013
Review of schemes ruffles BJP
The clear indication by the Congress government that it is in no mood to blindly commit itself to implementing all the flagship programmes that had been either announced or commenced during the pr...
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
Deshpande non-committal on private universities
Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande on Wednesday said that he would strive to get one world-class university and Indian Institute of Technology at Raichur and Dharwad with help from the Union...
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Bangalore,
May 23, 2013
Mini-hydro projects still a major threat to Western Ghats
The blanket ban on all new mini-hydro power projects in the Western Ghats, ordered three months ago by the Karnataka High Court and celebrated by environmentalists, may not, after all, be as all-e...
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Bangalore,
May 22, 2013
Heavy duty cover-up
Tributes and cover bands have usually been considered detrimental, or at least a step back to a music scene which wants to produce original, independent music. But in the last decade, cover bands...
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Art and the human psyche
Ramesh Chandra represents the human psychological aspect in his watercolours
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Art and the human psyche
Ramesh Chandra represents the human psychological aspect in his watercolours
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Angry parents write to board after tough CBSE math paper
Bride-to-be found murdered
Roads turn pools as city gets 36 mm rain in two hours
Rain floods major junction
‘Gender disparity in access to ICT a global phenomenon’
Transformers: too close for comfort?
RGUHS PGET results out
‘No man’s land’ turns into a garbage dump
Jilted lover chops off girlfriend’s fingers
Water supply resumes in Bangalore
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