BENGALURU: Bengaluru-based couple Danish Abdi and Vrushali Prasade created history by becoming the first pair to complete a side-by-side open-water swim from Sri Lanka to India along the historic Ram Setu route.The duo covered nearly 32 kilometres across the Palk Strait on May 7, beginning their swim from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka at around 4:30…
Bengaluru: Nearly 22% of teachers’ posts in Karnataka government schools are vacant, a NITI Aayog report said, placing the state among those with a significant staffing gap in school education.Against the total sanctioned strength of 1,78,935 for 41,088 government primary schools, there’s a shortage of 38,163 teachers.Quoting from project approval board meetings of 2025, the…
Auto driver booked for alleged sexual harassment of student in Bengaluru (Image used for representational purpose only) BENGALURU: A 19-year-old undergraduate student alleged that an auto driver sexually harassed her while she was walking on Promenade Road at Cleveland Town in east Bengaluru.A resident of JC Nagar, the first-year BSc student at a private college…
Tension prevailed near Govt Mother and Child hospital in Chintamani, Chikkaballapur district, Monday after relatives of a 23-year-old woman, who died days after undergoing a tubectomy, refused to accept her body and demanded action against doctors concerned.Narmada, a resident of Batlahalli village in Chintamani taluk, was admitted to hospital on April 23 for the procedure….
Bengaluru: Two children of a daily-wager couple were charred to death in their makeshift shed at Narayanapura, Kottanur, Monday afternoon.The deceased are D Arjun and D Asha. Their parents, Durgappa and Savitri, were at work at an under-construction site when the incident took place around 1.30pm, police said.“The children’s grandmother was in the bathroom when…
Bengaluru: MVJ College of Engineering Monday said it hosted its flagship academic event, Project Expo 2026, on May 9, bringing together student innovators, industry experts and academicians under the theme, Youth and Innovation: Building Modern India.The event was held at Dr MV Jayaraman auditorium and featured projects from mechanical, computer science and electrical science streams.The…
Kolar: As temperatures continue to remain high, roadside stalls selling ice apples –locally known as taati ningu — have become a common sight across Kolar district with traders from neighbouring Tamil Nadu reporting brisk business.Dozens of traders travel from across the state border to sell the seasonal fruit, which is widely consumed during summer for…
Bengaluru: South Western Railway (SWR) has pushed the completion deadline for quadrupling of the rail corridor between Cantonment and Whitefield to March 2027. The project was sanctioned in 2018 and SWR maintains that 75% of the work is complete.The 19km project, approved at an estimated cost of Rs 492 crore, is intended to ease congestion…
Bengaluru: Bengaluru’s long-delayed civic polls may still lack a date, but newer political parties are already fanning out across the city, betting that frustration over potholes, waste and poor infrastructure could translate into votes.With the State Election Commission indicating that it is prepared to conduct elections for the five city corporations under Greater Bengaluru Authority…
Bengaluru: While civic focus in Bengaluru largely remains on improving arterial and sub-arterial roads, the most neglected stretches continue to be ward-level internal roads, despite their crucial role in last-mile connectivity.A glaring example is Munekolalu in east Bengaluru, under the Bengaluru East city corporation, where several internal roads have been in a deplorable condition for…
