Debris on footpath leads to BBMP engineers' suspension
Bengaluru Development Minister K J George has suspended two Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) engineers for allowing private builders to dump debris on footpaths. Devaraj, an assistant...
View ArticleFinal order on reservation for ZP posts
The state government on Friday issued the final notification fixing the reservation for the post of president and vice-president of zilla panchayats.The government, while making changes in the...
View ArticleA year on, no sight yet of skywalk at Kempapura junction
The much-awaited skywalk project at Kempapura junction is proceeding at a snail's pace even after a year it was planned. The project was announced in March 2015 after a speeding tanker killed two...
View ArticleMan murdered, police suspect lover's husband
A 35-year-old flower merchant was found murdered outside his home in Flower Garden slum in Cottonpet police limits in the early hours of Friday.The police said that Venkatesh was working as a flower...
View ArticleOrgan transplant: Priority to B'luru patients decried
The criteria of according priority to Bengaluru-based patients in organ transplantation came in for severe criticism at a workshop for the representatives of authorisation committees from across the...
View ArticleBuilders, apartment residents at loggerheads
A long-standing dispute between residents of Ajmera Infinity apartments on Neeladri Road and the builder took an ugly turn on Friday with both the parties lodging complaints against each other at...
View ArticleKarnataka to get state organ transplant organisation
The city will soon house a State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO), which will function under the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO).This is one of the changes...
View ArticleFire destroys factory in Kumbalgodu
Tension prevailed for sometime after a major fire broke out at an industrial unit in Kumbalgodu on Mysuru Road on Friday evening. Though no casualties were reported materials in the unit were reduced...
View ArticleMan tries to steal cash at Axis Bank ATM as guard 'strolls outside'
A man made a futile attempt to rob an ATM centre near Laggere Cross in Rajagopalanagar in the early hours of Friday.The police said that around 2 am, a man noticed that there was no guard at the Axis...
View ArticleMan denied custody of 'daughter' he gave in adoption
The High Court recently refused to hear the plea of a father who had moved the court seeking custody of his daughter whom he had given her in adoption 15 years ago. The High Court dismissed the...
View ArticleBDA goes to police against own officials over fake RTI reply
The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has lodged a police complaint against some of its unidentified officials and those in the Urban Development Department for "fabricating" RTI documents against...
View ArticleBSY to cruise around in luxury Toyota Prado
BJPstate president BSYeddyurappa, who calls himself a farmers' leader, now has a swanky new high-end Toyota Land Cruiser Prado to travel around.He would be hitting village roads in the drought-hit...
View ArticleMaharashtra to release water into Krishna
Maharashtra is expected to release two tmcft of water into River Krishna from Rajapur barrage through one its reservoirs beginning Saturday.Small Scale Industries and Belagavi in-charge minister,...
View ArticleLeft parties back inter-faith marriage of Mandya couple
Several organisations, including Left parties, have expressed their solidarity with Hindu girl and the Muslim boy proposing to enter wedlock.The proposed marriage of Ashita with Shakeel of Mandya has...
View ArticleTunnel borer Godavari a week away from Majestic Metro station
The Godavari Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) is now a week away from reaching the Majestic underground station and to create the link between north-south and east-west corridors.The TBM is at work in the...
View ArticleGaiety, devotion marks Sri Rama Navami in City
Special puja and rituals at temples, distribution of 'panaka'and 'kosambari' marked Rama Navami celebrations in the City on Friday.Special offerings were made at temples across the city on Friday as...
View ArticleArmy truck driver holds up traffic at Webb's Junction
Close on the heels of a group of armymen beating up a traffic sub-inspector and a constable, and creating ruckus on Commercial Street in central Bengaluru, an army truck driver parked his vehicle in...
View ArticleBJP demands CBI inquiry into plethora of BDA scams
The BJPhas demanded a CBI inquiry into varied scams in the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) such as allotment of alternative sites to a company in which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's son is a...
View ArticleBDA gave Rs 150-cr land to firm run by Yathindra's biz partner
Another controversy is brewing over the BDA's allotment of 2.11 acres in a prime locality in northern Bengaluru to Shantha Industrial Enterprises, whose director is Dr C M Rajesh Gowda, the business...
View ArticleCM's son changes stand, to quit firm on Monday
After dilly-dallying for the last two days on quitting as director of Matrix Imaging Solutions India, Yathindra, the pathologist son of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, has decided to leave the company....
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