ED nabs city man for defrauding banks
An engineer from Bengaluru and a man from Chennai have been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in relation to the investigation into shell companies they launched four days ago. The suspects...
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Vendors make spirited bid to skirt liquor ban
Liquor vendors in Karnataka are in no mood to shut shop from July 1 to honour the Supreme Court ban on sale of alcohol near highways.They have begun scouting for ways to circumvent the ban, including...
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BBMPâsite continues to annoy citizens
The civic administration of India's software capital hasn't been able to fix problems on its website for more than a year.Citizens trying to pay property tax online are frustrated by software bugs, and...
View ArticleExperts for developing Indian theatre theories
At the 12th annual conference of the Department of Performing Arts of Bangalore University, theatre personalities encouraged students of the art form to develop Indian theories rather than accept...
View ArticleRamanavami music fest from today
The 79th Sree Ramanavami National Music Festival will commence on Wednesday at Fort High School Grounds. Renowned Karnatic vocalist Bombay Jayashree Ramanath will present the inaugural...
View ArticleSelfie campaign to promote BMTC on Bus Day
Volunteers of Citizens for Bengaluru (CfB) held #selfiewithmybmtc campaign to celebrate Bus Day on Tuesday. Volunteers boarded buses on various routes, took selfies and encouraged others to participate...
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Worldwide group of vintage music buffs coming to city
An online group of vintage Indian music buffs has completed 25 years, and is converging in Bengaluru this weekend to celebrate the milestone.RMIM, as the group is called, was created in 1992 on...
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Power project work halted after farmers' protest
Following stiff resistance from farmers, the Bengaluru Rural district administration on Tuesday temporarily halted the work on laying cables for electric towers in Doddaballapur taluk under a power...
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HC notice to Centre, state on Malleswaram blast victim's plea
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday ordered notice to the Union and state governments in a petition filed by Leesha, one of the victims of the bomb blast near the BJPoffice in Malleswaram in...
View ArticleThief caught after chase; 2 escape
Two constables attached to the Girinagar police station, who were manning a check point, chased and caught a thief who was trying to escape with two other accomplices on a bike.The incident was...
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61-yr-old woman held with banned notes worth Rs 26 lakh
An alert member of the public helped the police nab a 61-year-old woman who was trying to exchange old notes worth over Rs 26 lakh through her contacts in Girinagar on Monday.The arrested has been...
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Bengaluru man's suicide was premeditated, say Mumbai police
A day after Bengaluru youth Arjun Bhardwaj committed suicide and livestreamed it on Facebook, the Mumbai police, which are investigating the case, feel that the act was premeditated, but the...
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Ballari Road widening work, Hebbal flyover loop in limbo
Work on widening Ballari Road and adding a loop to the Hebbal flyover is making little progress. The National Highways Authority of India has to wait for a green signal from the National Green...
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Bengaluru disciples recall Kishori's towering genius
Kishori Amonkar, the doyenne of Hindustani music who passed away in Mumbai late on Monday, was a revered guru to two singers from Bengaluru.Sangeeta Katti, famous for many hit Kannada movie songs,...
View ArticleHigh Court restrains government from issuing job orders to 2011...
The High Court of Karnataka has asked the government not to issue appointment orders to the 2011 batch gazetted probationers and stayed the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal's order.A division bench...
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Forest officials seek okay to demolish resort, house
Forest staff have taken another step towards demolishing a sprawling property at a wildlife sanctuary near here.The property violates buffer norms at Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, a two-hour drive from...
View ArticleRain in Mysuru, Kodagu
Parts of Mysuru region received light to heavy rainfall on Wednesday.Hunsur, Periyapatna and adjoining villages in Mysuru district received good rain. The rainfall, which began at 4.30 pm, lashed for...
View ArticleLiquor prices go up
Liquor prices have gone up in the state with the increase in various slabs of additional excise duty, announced in the state budget proposals for 2017-18, coming into effect.While lower-end brands...
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H1N1 cases see alarming rise this year; 10 deaths in 3 months
Over 1,000 cases of H1N1 have been reported in the state in a span of just one month. In all, 1,600 cases of the flu have been reported this year so far. A total of 110 cases of the flu were reported...
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Sasikala meets visitors 12 times a month
AIADMK chief V K Sasikala, lodged at Parappana Agrahara central prison in the city, has met visitors 12 times a month, reportedly in violation of prison rules. Sasikala has been convicted in a...
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