Bengaluru: Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) created a Guinness World Record by planting nearly 15 lakh native saplings across multiple locations in 12 hours, in one of the world’s largest coordinated urban plantation drives. The Guinness World Records adjudicator presented the award to Karnataka govt Sunday.At Dr Shivaram Karanth Layout (DSKL), over 7.1 lakh saplings were…
Fire in factory at Bengaluru Bengaluru: A massive fire broke out at a chemical manufacturing factory in Bommasandra Industrial Area near Hebbagodi Sunday evening, triggering panic and sending thick plumes of smoke into the sky. No casualties were reported, though the blaze remained uncontrolled till 9.30pm.Fire and emergency services personnel received information around 5.10pm about…
Bengaluru: More than 10 days after a worker went missing inside the Balagere sewage treatment plant (STP), rescue teams recovered what are believed to be parts of his body late Thursday. However, the search operation will continue.Fire department sources said rescuers recovered a thigh and an arm during operations Thursday night. The remains are believed…
Kolar/Bengaluru: Three separate road accidents in Kolar and Bengaluru have claimed the lives of five people, including three members of a family, since Saturday evening.A couple and their daughter were killed on the spot when the two-wheeler they were riding rammed the trailer of a tractor near V Gittahalli village in Mulbagal on the Bengaluru-Chennai…
Bengaluru: In a crackdown on the illegal sale of scheduled drugs, Chamarajpet police have arrested four women in two separate operations for allegedly selling Tydol, an opioid painkiller tablet, without medical authorisation. These tablets, used to treat moderate-to-severe acute pain in adults, require a valid prescription for sale. The tablets are used as narcotic drugs…
Footpaths are encroached on the stretch from Hoodi to Hope Farm The footpaths do exist, but you just can’t walk on them.On one of east Bengaluru’s busiest roads linking Whitefield’s IT hubs, apartment complexes, malls and hospitals, pedestrians are forced to dodge parked vehicles, food stalls, shop extensions, garbage, and construction material simply to move…
Human, face behind $1bn German IT co Nagarro Bengaluru: The story of Nagarro cofounder Manas Human spans an unlikely arc — from the tea town of Dibrugarh in Assam and the classrooms of Delhi to the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, where he helped build one of the world’s largest digital engineering companies….
Bengaluru: Calling for a united fight against narcotic substance abuse in the country, vice-president C.P Radhakrishnan urged Karnataka to lead the way in driving change.“Awareness should spread to our city and across all districts of Karnataka. Our city and our state should lead the nation in becoming drug-free, and we must take this message to…
Bengaluru: Bengaluru’s proposed double-decker metro corridors could reverse years of efforts to shift commuters towards public transport by making private vehicle travel more attractive, according to IISc Prof Ashish Verma. Releasing an independent technical assessment of the project, Verma argued that urban mobility planning should focus on increasing the share of trips made by Metro,…
Police detained street vendors, who held a protest against the eviction drive conducted by the Mangaluru City Corporation in Mangaluru Sunday Mangaluru: A drive by Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) against footpath vendors Sunday turned tense, with street vendors arguing with officials near Govt Lady Goschen Hospital, here, prompting police intervention.Police took into custody nine persons,…
