The signboard, installed on a public road outside the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) campus, was allegedly put up without authorisation, according to the activists. BENGALURU: An FIR has been registered against members of a pro-Kannada organisation for allegedly vandalising a Hindi signboard at BEL Circle in Bengaluru while protesting against what they described as the…
Street Vendors Eviction Drive in Bengaluru Footpaths Cleared, But Where Should Vendors Go? A Decade After Street Vendors Act, Bengaluru Has No AnswerBengaluru: As Bengaluru’s five city corporations intensify footpath clearance drives under the Greater Bengaluru Authority’s Safe Footpath initiative starting Wednesday, a fundamental question remains unanswered: where should thousands of street vendors displaced from…
Five women daycare staff at an IT company campus in Bengaluru face an FIR for allegedly abusing toddlers BENGALURU: Shocking videos allegedly showing toddlers being physically abused at a daycare centre inside an IT company Capegemini’s HAL campus in Bengaluru have led to the registration of an FIR against five women caregivers, with police launching…
Agnikul, ICEYE join hands to build, launch SAR satellites from India(PTI image) BENGALURU: Private launch vehicle company Agnikul Cosmos has signed an MoU with Finnish space technology firm ICEYE to explore building, launching and operating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation systems from India.The partnership aims to combine ICEYE’s expertise in manufacturing SAR satellites with…
VTU 6th semester exams results announced Bengaluru: Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has aced its own game of announcing results immediately after the completion of the examinations. It improved on its record by announcing the results of the sixth semester engineering exam just five minutes after the exam ended.A total of 60,856 students appeared for the…
Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar chairing the Standing Committee meeting of the Karnataka State Wildlife Board in Bengaluru Bengaluru: Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday directed officials to plug any technical gaps in Karnataka’s proposed Mekedatu balancing reservoir project, saying Tamil Nadu was attempting to raise objections before the Supreme Court on “minor pretexts” to…
Bengaluru: As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls commenced in Karnataka Tuesday, the Congress accused the Election Commission of acting under pressure from the Centre, with home minister Priyank Kharge describing the poll body as “puppets” of the govt.Priyank said the state had raised 12 objections to the SIR process and was expecting…
Bengaluru: As Karnataka’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls gets underway, the battle is no longer just about voters. Political parties are racing to appoint Booth Level Agents (BLAs), the volunteers who help voters with the verification process and flag any discrepancies, but none of the three major parties has been able to cover…
In this image posted on June 11, 2026, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and state MLA Krishna Byre Gowda during a meeting in New Delhi. (@nsitharamanoffc/X) Bengaluru: Krishna Byre Gowda, the Bengaluru development minister, has strongly defended the allocation of the state’s ₹2,000-crore infrastructure package, arguing that Congress-held constituencies…
Bengaluru: Chief minister DK Shivakumar Tuesday sought three months’ time to clear long-pending bills worth over Rs 37,370 crore owed to contractors for works executed under various departments.Shivakumar assured the contractors that he would resolve their issues after holding talks soon with officials from the concerned department and the finance department.A delegation from the Karnataka…
