India's largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), has been in a hurry in the last few years to shed its sleepy, PSU  image.

Following heavy rains, a portion of a minaret of Hyderabad's iconic Charminar fell off on Sunday, but the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) dismissed it as "insignificant". K Veerbhadra Rao, superintendent archaeologist of ASI, Hyderabad  said the chipping off of the trefoil design on the southeast minaret was a minor damage.

Expressing serious concern over the ever increasing environmental degradation, chief minister K Rosaiah said that the state government is committed to protecting environment.

Three children of a family were killed and five others injured when an old building collapsed here following incessant rains, police said on Monday.

The interrogation of People's Democratic Party president Abdul Nassar Madani by Bangalore police is throwing up interesting material. He told them that before forming PDP, he was a member of a Hyderabad-based outfit called Noorisha Tariqat.