Bengaluru: Rail commuters in the city may face a tough few weeks as yard remodelling work at KSR Bengaluru railway station — approved by the railway board — is set to disrupt train services from mid-June to early Aug. The scheduled work will cause cancellations of regular services, including express, passenger and Memu trains, forcing…
Bengaluru: The ‘BSY Abhimanotsava’ on May 9 in Chitradurga, to mark former chief minister BS Yediyurappa‘s 50 years in public life, will double as a political exercise to consolidate state president BY Vijayendra‘s position within a divided party unit. Though officially billed as a commemorative programme, party functionaries say the scale and timing reflect a…
In ‘What She Said’, Gowri Ramnarayan retells the Ramayana through the eyes of six women —Urmila, Manthara, Shurpanakha, Mandodari, Tara and Shanta — offering insights into how forgotten female characters dealt with their victimhood. The play features six epic women enacted by three actors. Gowri lends voices to the women who were silenced, overlooked and…
HANDS-ON TRAINING-Women learning how to ride a motorcycle at a two-day workshop in Tumakuru Ranjitha Prabhakar decided to change gears after turning 40, moving from the pillion seat to riding a rugged adventure motorcycle. Her journey underlines a larger movement playing out on Bengaluru’s roads. Heavy bobbers, tourers and cruisers, weighing anywhere between 175 and…
Bengaluru: Two alleged two-wheeler thieves were arrested by Talaghattapura police for targeting parked motorcycles across various parts of the city. The accused, Mohammed Khasif, 22, and Usman Khan, 21, residents of Talaghattapura, are suspected of carrying out a series of thefts using a similar method.According to police, the duo would identify unattended scooters, break the…
Bengaluru: Dug-up roads across Banashankari 1st Stage, including in Srinivasa Nagar, Ashokanagar, Vidyapeetha and Hanumanthanagar, have disrupted traffic and left residents coping with dust, even as civic agencies say the works are necessary and nearing completion.The affected stretches, under Bengaluru West City Corporation, are seeing multiple infrastructure works carried out at once. While Gas Authority…
Bengaluru: What began as a resignation over health concerns turned into a legal battle over exit norms at a tech firm in Marathahalli. A city civil court restrained a senior employee from interfering with the company’s operations and from joining another organisation without completing exit formalities.The dispute involves a software company, based in Kundalahalli Gate,…
A US-based doctor, Siruvella Sridevi, experienced a shocking loss of 725 grams of gold ornaments, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, during a wedding reception in Bengaluru. (AI image) BENGALURU: A 52-year-old doctor practising in the US lost 725 grams of gold ornaments worth around Rs 1 crore from a convention hall in east Bengaluru…
BENGALURU: A 15-year-old girl from Bengaluru has survived a life-threatening vascular emergency after undergoing a rare and complex surgery for a rupturing aortic aneurysm caused by Behçet’s Disease. The teenager, who had been living with the chronic inflammatory condition since 2018, developed a rapidly expanding 5 cm aneurysm in the abdominal aorta—the main artery supplying…
Bengaluru: Sathish KR, also known as Sathish Kadatanamale, a political party functionary from Yelahanka constituency, has been accused of storming a govt office and assaulting staff.According to a complaint filed by R Prakash Rao, 55, an officer at Sahakara Soudha in Malleswaram, Sathish—who is a disqualified director of the Kadanamale Milk Producers Cooperative Society—allegedly entered…
