This fraudster with more than 200 aliases had such an ingenious way of changing his get-up that his photos belied his identity. More >

In a bid to satiate the unending curiosity over the universe’s origins, an international team of scientists — including researchers from Bangalore — are building a powerful radio telescope in Australia that can look for clues of what went on when the first stars were formed.

Scientists from the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bangalore are part of this scientific mission to unravel the mysteries of the universe. Apart from the Indian team, American scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Curtin University in Australia are in efforts to build a powerful radio telescope by early next year that will allow them to see how the universe was formed.

About 1,500 people from all walks of life Tuesday joined campaign for a strong Lokpal bill and 25 people are on fast in support of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare at Freedom Park in the heart of the Karnataka capital. More >

Six people, suspected to be members of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, were on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Karnataka court for a terror attack at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science here in 2005 that killed a retired professor. Fast track court Judge VR Revankar awarded the punishment to Mohammed Riaz-ur-Rehman of Andhra Pradesh, and Afzar Pasha, Mehboob Ibrahim Saab Chopdar, Noorulla Khan, Mohammed Irfan and Nazim Uddin alias Munna, all from Karnataka.

Bewildered supporters of “Slut Walk” Bangalore went home disappointed on Sunday morning after the city police clamped down on a scheduled march citing security reasons. “We had information that there might be a law and order problem,” said G. Ramesh, the local Deputy Commissioner of Police. “So, we asked the organizers to call it off.”

The organizers of the march, however, were surprised by the authorities’ volte-face. “We had written permission from the cops,” said Vikram Hemanathan, an engineering graduate who felt the time was right to bring the march to the city, “but we were given a call on Saturday night and were told of the cancellation.”

Pipping past the four metro cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, southern technology hub Bangalore has emerged as the best city to live in India, a global survey said on Tuesday.

Despite its top Indian ranking, Bangalore’s worldwide rank is very low at 141st position in a list of 221 cities globally in terms of standard of living, compiled by the ‘Quality of Living Survey – Worldwide Rankings, 2011′ by the global HR (human resources) consultancy major Mercer.

The probe into last Saturday’s blaze in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has literally run into a haze.

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World’s largest professional networking site LinkedIn today announced opening of a technology centre in Bangalore, its first such office outside of North America.

LinkedIn, which has more than 135 million members globally and over 12 million users in India, has appointed Ganesh Krishnan to lead engineering operations in India, a company statement said. Earlier, he had stints with Yahoo! and CISO.

It was over two hours of pure euphoria for metal heads in Bangalore on Sunday. After the initial fear of the concert getting cancelled, the Gods of metal – Metallica — finally appeared on stage, with James Hetfield belting out Creeping Death.

Never has Bangalore seen such a turnout for a concert with more than 50,000 fans singing along with James in perfect unison, joining him For Whom the Bell Tolls and the cult classic Fuel.