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'Public transport sole solution to road woes'
Transport corporations from across the country have acknowledged the need to change, if they have to offer an alternative to private vehicles and solution to traffic woes. International experts and...
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Street vendors to get ID cards, hawking zones
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will issue identity cards to street vendors to prevent Palike and police officials from harassing them.BBMP commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad told reporters...
View ArticleCivic workers to protest tomorrow over salary delay, pay raise
Contract pourakarmikas (municipal workers) are set to launch a protest rally at the BBMP head office on Wednesday over salary delay and pay raise. Blaming both the BBMP and the garbage contractors,...
View ArticlePanel to decide Ola, Uber minimum fare
The Transport Department has set up a committee to consider fixing a minimum fare for app-based cab aggregators, including Ola and Uber, whose drivers are protesting against their fare models.Transport...
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PIL seeks shifting of Sasikala, Ilavarasi to Tumakuru jail
A PIL has been filed seeking directions to shift AIADMK general secretary V Sasikala Natarajan and her aide Ilavarasi from Parappana Agrahara prison to Tumakuru prison meant exclusively for women. The...
View ArticleParents protest fee hike at Vibgyor High
Hundreds of parents gathered in front of Vibgyor High, Kadugodi, on Monday to take part in the ongoing silent protest opposing fee hike by the school management. A parent said her child would be in...
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Amulya gets engaged to ex-corporator's son
Cheluvina Chittara Amulya got engaged to Jagadish, an MBA and son of former BBMP corporator G H Ramachandra on Monday. Dressed in a red Kanjeevaram sari, 23-year-old Amulya got engaged according to...
View Article6 injured as LPG cylinder explodes
Six people sustained burns when an LPG cylinder exploded in their ground-floor rented house at Annasandrapalya on HAL Main Road, east Bengaluru, on Sunday night, police said. Nagalakshmi (14) saw the...
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Road rage: man fires in the air to scare relative
A man fired in the air to scare his relative travelling by another car near the Outer Ring Road in Marathahalli, east Bengaluru. Police believe it was a combination of road rage and financial dispute...
View ArticleSchoolkids hurt after stepping on snapped live wire
Two children were injured after they stepped on a snapped live wire at a government primary school at Puttagudi Beedi in Devanahalli taluk, on the northern outskirts of Bengaluru, around 1.30 pm on...
View ArticleMan 'shows 12-yr-old girl porn on phone'
A 35-year-old man working as a cook at a house in a gated community in Koramangala, southeast Bengaluru, has been arrested for showing pornography to a 12-year-old girl on his mobile phone. Bharath...
View Article4-yr-old boy succumbs to burns
A 4-year-old boy succumbed to burns at Victoria Hospital on Sunday after a bucket of boiling water fell on him at his house.The deceased, Sheshadri Bharath, was the only son of Asha, whose husband...
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Charge sheet filed in molestation case
The Banaswadi police on Monday submitted a charge sheet in the New Year Eve Kammanahalli molestation case. Investigating officer ACP Ravi Kumar submitted a 164-page charge sheet to the 11th ACMM court...
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ATM attacker brought to city
Ateam of city police brought Madhukar Reddy, arrested on the charge of attacking a woman at an ATM in November 2013, to Bengaluru on Monday. Reddy was arrested in Andhra Pradesh and was lodged in...
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Rain hits traffic, fells trees in city
Tuesday evening's rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, led to traffic snarls, uprooting of trees and power failure in several parts of the city.The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) was...
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Three workers choke to death in manhole
Three labourers died of suffocation when they were trying to clear a clogged sewerage line in CV Raman Nagar early on Tuesday.Anjaneya Reddy (34), Eeraiah (35), and Davitha Naidu (40), all from Andhra...
View ArticleNari Shakti Puraskar for three from state
Two women and one soical oganisation, working for the welfare of women, from the state have won Nari Shakti Puraskar 2016 of the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Pamela Malhotra, who hails from...
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Commercialisation trivialising the day
It is March 8 and women's inboxes are flooded with messages from restaurants, bars and shopping outlets with discounts and offers to make them feel special on International Women's Day. The day - once...
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No women's toilets in half of all police stations
Women in the police department face a curious problem: they are forced to use the same toilets as their male colleagues.More than half of all police stations in the state have no separate toilets....
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Thank these women for your smooth Metro rides
Namma Metro riders do not get time to look at the loco pilots cabin. But one look, and they will find that women are driving lakhs of people every day.There are 107 women loco pilots in Namma Metro and...
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