During the weekend drive, BLOs toured various areas in the city, broadcasting messages to voters to submit their completed forms Bengaluru: With Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) lagging behind the rest of Karnataka in collecting and digitising voter enumeration forms, booth-level officers (BLOs) have turned to handheld speakers and klaxons to urge residents to submit them…
Kempegowda International Airport will begin simultaneous departures from both runways in two months, boosting departure capacity, cutting taxi times, and improving operational efficiency Bengaluru: With simultaneous departures from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to be implemented from Sept, its departure capacity is expected to be significantly increased.Airports Authority of India (AAI), in a recent supplement, issued…
Bengaluru: Karnataka high court has posted to Tuesday a PIL seeking extension of the ongoing SIR in Karnataka by three months.The petition, filed by Kannada litterateur Devanooru Mahadeva, historian Ramachandra Guha, Major General (retd) SG Vombatkere and scholar Sabiha Bhoomigowda, also seeks some clarifications regarding rules formulated for the process.According to the petitioners, the information…
Bengaluru:“I’ll give you my entire first month’s salary if your referral gets me hired.”The plea, once rare and awkward, is becoming increasingly common on LinkedIn and Reddit, where freshers and early-career professionals are promising their first paycheque — or even cash incentives — for referrals that could open the door to a job.The posts, spanning…
Mangaluru: The II additional district and sessions (special) court judge Jagadeesh VN on Monday sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the murder of Gangadhara Pangala, 55. He was killed on May 14, 2014, following a conspiracy allegedly triggered by a dispute within the Baikampady Mogaveera Mahasabha.The convicts, Satish Baikampady, 58, Harish Baikampady, 60, Bhaskar…
Udupi: Doctors at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, successfully treated a 60-year-old man suffering from life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding caused by chronic liver disease without the need for surgery, using advanced endoscopy and interventional radiology techniques.The patient was admitted after vomiting blood and was diagnosed with gastrointestinal bleeding due to a bleeding fundal varix, a condition caused by…
Bengaluru: Namma Metro services on the Yellow Line were disrupted for more than two hours Monday evening after a passenger died by suicide by jumping in front of a moving train at Huskur station on Hosur Road around 5.50 pm.Following the incident, operations were suspended between Bommasandra and Electronics City. Normal services on the entire…
Mangaluru: The incidence of yellow leaf disease and leaf spot in arecanut plantations has declined this year, with growers attributing the drop to weak and uneven monsoon rains and timely preventive measures. Mahesh Puchchappady, president of the All India Areca Growers’ association, said only 2–3% of plantations might have reported the disease this season.Compared to…
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district Congress president K Harish Kumar said ‘Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan’, an organisational exercise initiated by the AICC, will commence in the district from Tuesday. Addressing media on Monday, he said Kozhikode North MLA K Jayanth has been appointed AICC observer, along with former minister K Jayaprakash Hegde, Veronica, Satish and Srinivas as…
Bengaluru: A man in his early 30s assaulted and abused his wife and father-in-law before hurling his 11-month-old female baby minutes before the infant’s naming ceremony at a hotel in south Bengaluru in mid-July.The infant suffered a skull fracture and is said to be out of danger now. The baby’s father, currently unemployed, was reportedly…
