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BENGALURU: In a major push to strengthen airside safety, Bangalore International Airport Limited has introduced an integrated Smart Airside Safety System at the Kempegowda International Airport with a view to reducing risks and improving coordination in the airport’s most sensitive operational zones.The newly deployed system focuses on Cross Service Roads (CSRs); critical intersections where aircraft…

Malayalam film Balan: The Boy is set for a market screening at the Marché du Film during the Cannes Film Festival on May 14. Directed by Chidambaram, best known for Manjummel Boys, and written by Jithu Madhavan, the film brings together two distinctive voices in Malayalam cinema.Backed by Bengaluru-based KVN Productions and Thespian Films, Balan:…

Bengaluru: Heavy rain and winds in and around the city have time and again exposed a critical gap in its preparedness — the absence of a Doppler weather radar. The record rain on April 29, which intensified within minutes and left several areas flooded, once again highlighted how the lack of a real-time, hyperlocal forecasting…

Bengaluru: After years of struggle, people living along Holiday Village Road at Mallasandra, off Kanakapura Road, have finally seen some relief with the road improvement work nearing completion, but a new problem has cropped up almost immediately — encroachment of footpaths.Locals say all kinds of shops have come up along the road, occupying the footpaths….

Bengaluru: The ruling Congress held on to two crucial assembly seats, while the BJP snatched a late victory in Sringeri after a recount reversed the earlier result, adding a dramatic twist to the outcome, in the Karnataka bypolls. Congress scored a comfortable win in Bagalkot, where Umesh Meti, son of former minister H Y Meti,…

Bengaluru: From the womb to adolescence, early-life experiences leave measurable imprints on the brain, shaping mental health, cognition and disease risks decades later. That was the focus of Param (Pathways to Resilience and Mental Health)-Connect, held at Nimhans Monday, which brought together leading neurodevelopment cohorts from across India.Researchers presented findings from long-running studies in Mysuru,…

Bengaluru: The severely delayed Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP) secured a boost with the govt issuing a notification to acquire nearly 31,000sqm of land near Devanahalli to set up a primary depot for the Majestic-Devanahalli corridor. The Sampige Line (Corridor-1) will connect Majestic and Devanahalli via Yelahanka, and officials plan a primary depot for this…

Bengaluru: After demolishing Jayadeva flyover for an interchange Metro station and marking Delmia flyover for removal under a double-decker corridor plan on Outer Ring Road, the city is set to raze another flyover.Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Limited (B-Smile) has identified a contractor to build a Rs 436-crore elevated rotary flyover at the busy IOC Junction. The…

Bengaluru: Yelahanka police Monday arrested a 44-year-old daily wage worker and three of his associates on charges of murdering a food delivery agent, whose body was found inside a rajakaluve (storm drain) in Yelahanka Friday last, with preliminary police investigations revealing that he was strangled to death. Police said the man was killed because he…

Election officials in Davanagere South had to break open the EVM strong room due to a missing key, briefly delaying the bypoll counting. DAVANAGERE/BENGALURU: A dramatic start to counting day in Karnataka’s Davanagere South bypoll saw election officials forced to break open the EVM strong room after the key went missing, briefly delaying the process…