BangaloreOne centres to accept applications for RTE quota seats
Parents who wish to enrol their children in private schools through the Right To Education (RTE) Act quota can apply at the BangaloreOne centres and Atalji Janasnehi Kendras this academic year....
View ArticleTwo TenderSURE roads may not be completed on time
The two TenderSURE projects on Modi Hospital Road and Siddaiah Puranik Road may not be completed within the deadline set by the BBMP.BBMP officials said that only 11% of the work has been completed on...
View ArticleSon of TN forester held for selling parakeets online
The 24-year-old son of a forester from Tamil Nadu has been arrested by the CID forest cell in Bengaluru on charges of selling Alexandrine parakeets online.The HSR Layout police arrested the man -...
View Article25 more roads in CBD get ready for TenderSURE upgrade
The process has finally begun to upgrade 25 more roads in the heart of Bengaluru under TenderSURE guidelines. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has invited bids for total station surveys of...
View ArticlePublic outcry against molestation of women on New Year's Eve gets louder
Public outcry against molestation of women on the night of December 31 continued with a demonstration by students outside Town Hall on Wednesday. More than 200 people gathered on the steps of the hall...
View ArticleRoads turn debris dumpyards as Palike, police look other way
Heaps of debris dumped all along the road from Okalipuram Junction to Vatal Nagaraj Road in Rajajinagar have become a common sight, much to the inconvenience of residents. This is a new trend in the...
View ArticleBike-borne men slash college girl's forearm
The Adugodi police are investigating the case in which two bike-borne miscreants intercepted a college girl near Dairy Circle and slashed her forearm with a sharp object on Monday. The incident...
View ArticleKSRTC to ply 650 more buses for Sankranti
KSRTC will operate 650 additional buses across the state on January 13 and 14 to meet the demand of commuters travelling during Makara Sankranti. On January 15, special buses will be operated from...
View Article3 constables injured while nabbing car lifters
Three police constables were injured while arresting two persons who were escaping in a stolen car.When the police attempted to stop the car attached to Uber, the driver tried to run over them near...
View ArticleCash haul: Don't probe advocate without permission, HC tells police
The high court on Wednesday directed the Vidhana Soudha police not to interrogate advocate H M Siddhartha without the permission of the court. Siddhartha was arrested and a probe was initiated against...
View ArticleActor's death: cops book director, building contractor
The Rajanakunte police have booked film director Nanda Kishore, cameraman Hegde, labour coordinator Shekhar, owner of Prestige Group and the building contractor on the charge of criminal negligence...
View ArticleOnline petition against new textbooks from 2016-17
A Bengaluru resident has started a petition on Change.org asking Chief Minister Siddaramaiah not to implement new textbooks for the State syllabus schools in the academic year 2016-17.The petition...
View ArticleCollege dropout held for misbehaving with schoolgirl, woman
The Vyalikaval police on Tuesday night arrested a 20-year-old youth for misbehaving with a minor girl and a woman.The arrested is Manikanta, a labourer and a resident of a Muneshwara Block in...
View Article80-yr-old among three held for 'racial' attack on man from Mizoram
Three of a family were arrested by the Banaswadi police on Tuesday in connection with the assault on a man from the Northeast over a parking row at Akkayyamma Layout in Banaswadi on December 26. The...
View Article15 women take ill after injection goof-up
At least 15 women took ill after they were administered wrong injection at Kamalapur Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Hosapete taluk on Wednesday.The women, from places in and around Kamalapur, were...
View ArticleGovt seeks law dept opinion over fiat on chewing tobacco
Following a representation by tobacco manufacturers to "modify" a circular that was issued by the state government on banning chewing tobacco, the state has now sought the opinion of the law...
View ArticlePoliticians can interfere in transfers: HC
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday observed that there was nothing wrong in politicians, including MLAs, MPs and ministers, recommending the transfer of government officials, including the...
View ArticleABVP activist kills self, father lodges complaint against...
A final year BCom student committed suicide on Wednesday following a clash between NSUI and ABVP activists. The deceased Abhishek (21) was the secretary of the taluk unit of the ABVP. According to the...
View ArticleE-governance award for KSRTC
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has won the highest award for innovative use of technology at the 20th national conference on e-governance. The KSRTC received the award,...
View ArticlePU lecturers to stage dharna on January 21
The office-bearers of PU Lecturers' Association will stage a dharna in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the city on January 21 seeking full implementation of the Kumar Naik committee report....
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