Bengaluru: Two workers, both aged 30, are feared to have drowned while cleaning a tank at the BWSSB water treatment plant in Belagere, Varthur, Thursday evening.The workers are Brijesh, a native of Bihar, and Akhilesh, from Tamil Nadu.According to police, three workers were cleaning the tank when Brijesh and Akhilesh slipped and fell into it….
Crown of… BJP president BY Vijayendra felicitates the party’s winning candidates Lingaraj Patil and Raghu Kautilya (left) at Vidhana Soudha on Thursday. JD(S) candidate Govind Raju bit the dust Bengaluru: While Congress basked in a comfortable five-seat win in the legislative council elections Thursday, the BJP-JD(S) bloc was left to hunt for ‘black sheep’ since…
DK Shivakumar with expelled BJP legislators ST Somashekar and Shivaram Hebbar at Vidhana Soudha Bengaluru: The legislative council elections Thursday saw the return of a familiar political phrase — atmasakshi or voting according to one’s conscience — as rebel BJP and JD(S) legislators sought to explain their choices.The term, often associated with political defections and…
Bengaluru: Congress’ decisive victory in legislative council elections Thursday has altered numbers in their favour in the Upper House, reviving the possibility of action on two contentious laws pass by the previous BJP govt — the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Act, 2020, and the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of…
Labour council workers close shops in Magadi Road and protest at Freedom Park in Bengaluru Thursday Bengaluru: Many Bengaluru residents were left without their morning cup of tea and cigarette Thursday as hundreds of neighbourhood tea stalls, pan shops and cigarette stalls remained shut, as traders gathered at Freedom Park to protest the alleged harassment…
By R Prashanth VidyasagarMost Bengalureans already carry a version of Halasuru in their memory. For many, it is the school-days version, when a trip to Bazaar Street was inevitable before the academic year began. Uniforms, textbooks, stationery and, somewhere between errands, a stop at Sri Guru Sweet Mart for Mysore Pak or a chiroti with…
The monsoon doesn’t just change Karnataka’s landscape—it rewrites it. Forests turn emerald green, rivers swell, and waterfalls that lie dormant for months come crashing back to life. Across the Western Ghats and Malnad region, some of the state’s most spectacular cascades can only truly be experienced during the rainy season. Most waterfalls in Karnataka look…
Bengaluru: The high court has upheld the state’s Premium Floor Area Ratio (FAR) scheme, ruling that it cannot be equated with the controversial Akrama-Sakrama scheme meant for regularising unauthorised constructions.Dismissing a public interest litigation and a connected writ appeal, a division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice CM Poonacha held that Premium FAR…
Bengaluru: In an unprecedented shift in an otherwise female-dominated field, male students accounted for 33% of the BSc Nursing graduates at the recent convocation of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS). More than 10,000 of the 31,057 graduating students were men.Five years ago, in 2021, this number was 1,838 (of the total 10,804), thus…
Bengaluru: Southwest monsoon is traditionally a season of hope for Karnataka’s farmers. From the rain-fed fields of Chamarajanagar in the south to the vast farmlands of Bidar in the north, arrival of monsoon usually marks the beginning of sowing and a host of other agricultural activities, keeping rural households occupied until Oct.This year, however, the…
