R Nagaraju

The Telangana High Court has instructed the University of Hyderabad to halt the selection process for an associate professor position in Sanskrit Studies, specifically for the Scheduled Caste category. This directive follows a petition filed by r nagaraju, an assistant professor based in the city. The court has adjourned the hearing on this matter until July 17, pending further review.

BANGALORE: Curfew was lifted in J.J. Nagar during the day on Thursday, but reimposed at night. However, tension has eased, Police Commissioner H.T. Sangliana said, though most senior officers are in the area monitoring the situation.

Thirty APSRTC drivers were presented with Best Driver awards at the valedictory ceremony of the week-long Road Safety Week celebrations organised by the APSRTC on Sunday.

Reddygudem sub-inspector NVV Satyanarayana was arrested on Wednesday on the charge of accepting Rs 5,000 from a complainant.The SI was reportedly involved in extortion and corrupt practices, senior officials said.

Following the death of a four-year-old girl at a farmhouse in Jinnaram on Wednesday after suffering a pellet injury, police on Thursday arrested the girl’s relative, a juvenile in conflict with law (JCL), and the farmhouse owner.

Two students were killed and two others severely injured when lightning struck them at Tippalabadra village in Jiyyammavalasa mandal in Vizianagaram district as unseasonal rains lashed several parts of north coastal districts on Tuesday.

BANGALORE: The Bangalore police on Wednesday imposed day curfew in the riot-torn J J Nagar after one of the victims of last week's violence succumbed in hospital.

3K Residents Surviving On Tankers

A 55-year-old man and his minor son were arrested on Tuesday on charges of sexually harassing a five-year-old girl for over five months at their residence in Chandana Layout, Sunkadakatte, west Bengaluru.

Nizamabad Police has arrested three thieves and recovered eight bikes and two auto rickshaws worth Rs 4.4 lakh from their possession.

Eight years after Juvenile Justice Act (2000) was enforced, Mysore got the special juvenile police unit (SJPU), jointly set up by the police department and ECHO, an NGO, on Wednesday.

Planning to go on a drinking binge on New Year’s eve? Beware, cops across all districts in the state will be on the roads to put the brakes on anyone found drunk and driving on December 31st night.

MYSORE: Mysore Congress corporators alleged Mysore Urban Development Authority of misusing their powers in changing records and causing financial losses to the authority.

HYDERABAD: The city-level coordination committee, that visited a few localities on Thursday after a gap of two months, rediscovered that various government departments continued to do things their way.

It was a joyous occasion for employees of the APSRTC when the government agreed to extend 43 per cent fitment benefit to them, thereby bringing their eight-day long strike to an end.

MYSORE: The Mysore City Corporation council on Thursday witnessed unruly scenes when Congress members clashed and nearly manhandled their own women corporators.

DAVANAGERE: As many as nine projects of the final year engineering students of BIET here have been selected for the state-level exhibition-cum- seminar to be held at Vijayanagara College of Engineering at Bellary.