Film captures Whitefield's growth from Anglo-Indian village to IT hub
Wondered how Bengalurus IT hub, the bustling Whitefield, looked like once? 'Time Weavers,' a documentary, speaks about people who have seen Whitefield through its transformation from an Anglo-Indian...
View ArticleIsraeli festival in city from today
The third edition of the Israeli film festival which begins in the city on Friday will take one through the life and culture of Israel. The event will be held till September 25. The films will be...
View ArticleICCR scholars protest against non-payment of HRA
A number of foreign students studying in the city under the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) scholarship staged a protest in front of its regional office here on Thursday against the...
View ArticleMarine fish, delivered in a day
Caught from the high seas, fish finds its way to the Bengaluru markets through a maze of middlemen. But this complex process lasting two-three days could trigger fish decay, an inevitability masked by...
View ArticleCauvery protests continue, traffic hit on Mysuru Road
Pro-Kannada organisations continued to protest against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. Activists of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) gathered at Rajarajeshwari Nagar main road in western...
View Article51-yr-old arrested for raping 7-yr-old
The RT Nagar police have arrested a 51-year-old security guard of a private apartment for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl on Thursday. The suspect has been identified as Srinivas Rao. In the...
View ArticleBandh call: tech companies to shut down today
Companies in Electronics City will shut down on Friday as part of the state-wide bandh over the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. A spokesperson for the Electronics City Industrial Township...
View ArticleBRICS Wellness workshop in B'luru from tomorrow
The Union government is organising a two-day BRICS Wellness workshop in Bengaluru starting September 10. The workshop to be held at Hotel Shangrila will be attended by delegates from Brazil, Russia,...
View ArticleThis art is no tough nut to crack & you shell out little
Empty coconut shells are often handed over to a waste picker or left discarded at public spaces. However, here are a few inspiring citizens from the city who turn them into creative artworks. Nandini...
View ArticleTechnical panel: HC orders notice to BWSSB
The High Court on Thursday ordered notice to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) and S Krishnappa - former engineer-in-chief, BWSSB, in a petition challenging the formation of a...
View ArticleTraffic diversions today
The traffic police will impose the following restrictions in view of the procession of about 100 Ganesha idols for immersion at Halasuru lake on Friday.The procession will start from...
View ArticleAndhra Bank's ex-branch manager convicted in Rs 1.44-cr cheating case
A former manager of Andhra Bank's Chamarajpet branch and a former director of J J Fashion Studio Private Limited (JJFSPL), Bengaluru, have been convicted by a special CBI court in the Rs 1.44-crore...
View ArticleOnline petition for reversing NPS disaffiliation
An online petition has been started to reverse CBSE's move to withdraw affiliation to six schools of the National Public School group.The petition on change.org was initiated by a parent, who is also...
View ArticleThousands witness chariot procession at St Mary's Basilica
Streets in and around St Mary's Basilica in Shivajinagar wore a festive look as devotees from various parts of Bengaluru and outside thronged the church to witness the annual chariot procession on the...
View ArticleB'luru International Art fest kickstarts today
The ninth edition of the Bengaluru International Arts Festival is set to begin on Friday. The annual nine-day fest will have music and dance performances from over 150 artists from countries like...
View ArticleDemolitions will continue, BDA flats for poor who lose homes: CM
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is learnt to have informed the State Congress coordination committee on Thursday that his government will continue with the drive to demolish illegal structures on...
View ArticleBengaluru stands still over Cauvery
Barring a few minor incidents, Friday's dawn-to-dusk bandh was complete and peaceful in the city. The statewide bandh was called by various pro-Kannada organisations to protest the Supreme Court order...
View ArticleFilm fraternity joins protest
The members of the Kannada film fraternity too joined the protest bandwagon. The who's who of Kannada film industry expressed their support to the statewide bandh called by the pro-Kannada bodies over...
View ArticleBiocon chief trolled for 'Bandhaluru' tweet
Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw faced a backlash after her comment terming the city as 'Bandhaluru' on the social networking site Twitter. "Yes we shd rename our city as Bandhaluru,' she commented on...
View ArticleStray violence mars peaceful shutdown
A few incidents of violence marred what was otherwise a peaceful day of shutdown in Bengaluru over the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. On Friday afternoon, activists of the Karnataka Rakshana...
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