Vande Bharat sleeper coaches Bengaluru: A year after the Centre promised a superfast train between Bengaluru and Mumbai, there is little to show on the ground. The much-awaited service remains on paper, with passengers still relying on the same limited rail options that have frustrated traders, business travellers and regular commuters for years.On Sept 27,…
Bengaluru: Karnataka State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) Wednesday summoned vice-chancellors, registrars and finance officers of private and deemed-to-be universities in the state for a meeting, seeking extensive financial, academic and administrative records, including five years of audited accounts.The meeting, convened under the chairmanship of higher education department principal secretary Thulasi Maddineni, follows a Sept 17…
Minister HC Balakrishna hit back at HD Kumaraswamy, saying his brother’s assets grew manifold when he was CM Bengaluru: Ministers HC Balakrishna and Priyank Kharge Wednesday turned the tables on Union minister HD Kumaraswamy following his allegations against chief minister DK Shivakumar over his assets, questioning the alleged rise in property holdings of Kumaraswamy’s brother…
Bengaluru: Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) racket, found that suspended IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar had facilitated the leak of veterinary officers’ recruitment examination question paper to alleged middleman Basavaraj Kannale, a day before the scheduled examination.According to ED, Gangwar, then controller of examinations at KPSC, who was…
Bengaluru: Dr YC Janardhan Reddy, who took charge as interim director of National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) on Sept 1, spoke to TOI about the institute’s growing patient load, plans to improve access to care and the challenges posed by its highly centralised model. He outlined why expanding Nimhans alone may not…
Vande Bharat Express trial run between Yeshwanthpur and Mangaluru reaching Mangaluru Central Railway Station on Saturday. Bengaluru: Railway ministry will soon extend Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express to Bengaluru, meeting two long-standing demands from rail users for premium train services connecting Karnataka’s capital with Mangaluru and Goa.TOI has learnt that railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw wrote to…
By R Prashanth VidyasagarFor anyone who discovered Opeth in the early or mid-2000s, the first listen was a revelation. Songs stretching beyond 10 minutes, layers upon layers of sound, and tracks that could swing from menace to melancholy in the space of a few bars. This was metal unlike most of us had heard before….
Bengaluru: When several IT firms are tightening restrictions on employee bench time, Wipro has eased its policy, allowing junior- to mid-level employees in Band 2 and below to remain on the bench for up to six months (180 calendar days), effective Oct 1.The revised policy starts from the day an employee is released from a…
Mangaluru: One contract worker was charred to death and 12 others sustained injuries following a fire and a blast at a processing unit of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), 20km from here, around Wednesday noon.The explosion around 12.20pm sent out a loud boom that was heard in areas 10-12km away, with thick black smoke…
Bengaluru: A 19-year-old BCom student was stabbed to death in public near his college in Nagarabhavi on Wednesday afternoon, moments after he was called out of class to meet a person. Police said Yogesh, a resident of Nagadevanahalli and a first-year student at Mahesh PU College, was attacked by a group of youths, following an…
