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Whitefield motorists brave foam on chilly morning
Besides the chilly weather, motorists near Whitefield junction had to brave the foam that spilt onto the road from Varthur lake on Friday morning. With Bengaluru receiving continuous rainfall over the...
View ArticleSpecial tours for Pravasi Bharatiya Divas delegates
The Tourism department has lined up special tour packages for delegates attending the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas event in Bengaluru and interested in exploring the sights and sounds of Karnataka.Around...
View ArticleB'lore lit fest begins today, special sessions for kids
The fifth edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival is set to begin on Saturday at the Royal Orchid Hotel on Old Airport Road. The two-day festival will have over 100 writers participating and is to...
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London Bridge in sugar, cynosure of all eyes at annual cake show
The 42nd annual cake show, organised in association with the National Consumer Fair, was inaugurated on Friday at St Josephs Indian High School grounds.The big attraction this year is the London Tower...
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HC defers order as ASG says CJ's stand favours mine owners
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) K M Nataraj on Friday took strong exception to Karnataka High Court Chief Justice S K Mukherjee's stand on disposing off six petitions of mining companies.There are...
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68 buildings face demolition in new drive from Monday
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will resume demolition of buildings on Monday to clear encroachments on storm- water drains in many parts of the city. Encroachments on drains in...
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BDA offers alternative sites for Arkavathy Layout allottees
The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has decided to give alternative sites in Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout to the allottees who did not get plots in Arkavathy Layout. BDAChairman K Venkatesh told...
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36 new BangaloreOne centres to come up on city outskirts
As many as 36 more BangaloreOne centres will soon come up in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike limits and the existing centres will get additional card swipe machines to tide over the cash crunch due...
View ArticleBWSSB collects Rs 1.42 crore in arrears
Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has collected arrears totalling to Rs 1.42 crore till December 14. Highest amount of Rs 20 lakh has been collected in the south zone.With this, BWSSB...
View ArticleBMPC to upload master plan on BDA portal
Bengaluru Metropolitan Planning Committee (BMPC)will upload the 'under preparation Revised Master Plan 2031' on the website of Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) seeking suggestions from the...
View ArticleAstrologer found murdered in office
A priest-cum-astrologer was found murdered in his office at MV Garden near Halasuru, east Bengaluru, on Thursday night. Police suspect that someone known to him entered his office and stabbed him to...
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Kerala man held for 'rape'
A man from Kerala has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman whom he had met through a friend earlier this week.Police said they arrested Amit Sagar after the woman, who works at a...
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Jumbo trying to enter farmland in Kanakapura electrocuted
A tusker was electrocuted when it tried to enter a farmland at Kanchenahalli in Sathanur hobli, Kanakapura, 60 km south of Bengaluru, on Thursday night.Nagesh had erected an electric fence across his...
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Man walks into trap, robbed of Rs 18 lakh
A man carrying Rs 18 lakh in 2,000-rupee and 100-rupee notes to swap them with scrapped bills for a commission was robbed by an armed gang near Dr Rajkumar Samadhi in Nandini Layout, north Bengaluru,...
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Techie duped of Rs 2.1 lakh by Facebook 'girlfriend'
A software engineer in the city was reportedly cheated by a woman whom he was dating through Facebook, police said.Govind Sharma, a resident of Hulimavu, who works for a software company, met one...
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Citizens demand local trains for Bengaluru
The city's 33-year-old desire for a dedicated suburban train network took the form of an unusual campaign on Saturday.About 1,000 citizens boarded a train from Cantonment to Whitefield, two bustling...
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A heritage vision for city
Trapped in its trademark avatar as an IT hub, Bengaluru had long lost that connect with its once-cherished history. The city's heritage structures lay in deep decay as the march of the urban sprawl...
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Citizens hidden from the city's history
Bengalureans, both old and new, are not familiar with the history of the city and the many historical sites in its wide expanse. Tourists to the city are suggested places such as Lalbagh, Cubbon Park...
View ArticleA call to demolish MS Building
Bang in the midst of a cluster of heritage structures on Ambedkar Veedhi near Vidhana Soudha, the Multi-Storeyed (MS) Building stands like a sore thumb. So, why not break down this non-descript...
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Woman lawyer stabbed to death on busy road
A 26-year-old advocate was stabbed to death by two men in full public view in Mahalakshmi Layout on Saturday evening.The deceased is Jyothi, a native of Kanakapura. She worked in the office of a senior...
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