MEN WHO MATTER: S.V. Ranganath , Chief Secretary, interacting with colleagues at the venue of the workshop on e-procurement organised by the Centre for E-Governance, E-Procurement Cell, held at the Vikasa Soudha in Bangalore on Saturday.

Making preparations: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Home Minister V.S. Acharya and Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath at a pre-budget meeting in Bangalore on Friday.

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BANGALORE: The seriousness of government officials in implementing environment friendly schemes can be gauged from the interest they have shown in installing Rainwater Harvesting systems in the buildings housing their offices.

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KOLKATA: Constituents of the ruling Left Front in West Bengal unanimously welcomed the recommendations of the Ranganath Mishra Commission here on Monday, but they were critical of the Centre for keeping the public in the dark about its contents till it was placed before Parliament long after it was submitted .

'NICE will be allowed to implement the project as per the original FWA and SC judgments' Bangalore: Putting their differences behind them, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and the former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda held an hour-long meeting on the execution of the controversial Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project.

Bangalore: Indu Bhushan Srivastava, a 1975 batch officer of the Indian Forest Service, is likely to be appointed next Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of the Forest Force.

Kottayam, Jan 28 : CPI Red Flag, Kerala unit secretary P C Unnichekken today contended that reservation was a Constitutional right and should be protected.

Islamabad Pakistan, which is experiencing "Mumbai-like attacks almost every other day", cannot guarantee there will not be a repeat of the 26/11 strikes in India, Pak Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has told the US.

Dissection of insects and frogs in science laboratories in educational institutions could soon become a thing of the past with the Ministry of Environment and Forests asking UGC to explore options to end the practice.

'Knowledge of the language will be considered for promotion' - Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa speaking after inaugurating a training programme for State government employees in Bangalore on Thursday.

Puducherry Chief Secretary R. Chandramohan delivering an inaugural address at the International Colloquium on Indian Diaspora and Interculturality in the History of the Islands and Countries of Indian Ocean in Puducherry on Wednesday.

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Bangalore: Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath on Saturday took officials to task for their administrative inefficiency in handling issues related to departments and said that such officers would be punished for any dereliction of duty.

MAKING IT VIABLE: Umesh Chandra Sarangi, Chairman, NABARD, S. V. Ranganath, Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka, Srinivasmurthy, Additional Chief Secretary, and B. Srinivas, Regional Director, RBI, Bangalore, at a seminar in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Bangalore, Jan 11 : Karnataka Government will be spending US Dollar Four billion for road development in the State, Chief Secretary S V Ranganath said today.

Bangalore: The Karnataka government has ordered an inquiry against D.K. Rangaswamy, Director, Mass Education, for alleged sexual harassment of a widow, a resident of Rajarajeshwarinagar in Bangalore.

AN AGENDA FOR DEVELOPMENT: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath at a meeting with officials and MLAs on BBMP elections at his official residence 'Krishna' in Bangalore on Saturday.

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