Bengaluru: Manipal Health Enterprises, which operates the Manipal Hospitals chain, reported a 4.2% decline in net profit to Rs 243 crore for the June quarter, even as income rose 38.5% year-on-year to Rs 3,165 crore. It was the company’s first earnings announcement since its Aug 5 listing.The hospital operator has a network of 50 hospitals…
Bengaluru: Gold and silver platform Augmont Enterprises has raised Rs 246.3 crore from 14 anchor investors ahead of its initial public offering. It allotted 31.26 lakh shares at Rs 788 each, the upper end of the IPO price band.Nomura India Stock Mother Fund received the largest allocation at nearly Rs 50 crore, accounting for 20.3%…
The CEO’s office has not yet announced a list where voters can check whether they are set to receive notices Bengaluru: More than 43.8 lakh voters in Karnataka are set to receive notices during the next phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), beginning Aug 24. This accounts for 9.8% of the state’s 4.5 crore…
Bengaluru: Rejecting a petition by two IndusInd Bank officials seeking quashing of an FIR in a cheating case in which they were not named but summoned by cops for questioning, Karnataka high court recently directed Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate the case.Branch head Debopratim Dutta and zonal credit manager Rambabu CM, both from IndusInd…
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Bengaluru: A 20-year-old undergraduate student has accused her 60-year-old apartment owner of sexually harassing her during a visit to her flat in Langford Town recently.According to the complaint filed by Manya (name changed), the man forcibly hugged her, kissed on cheeks and touched her inappropriately despite her attempts to move away and resist his advances.Manya…
A senior police officer said patrolling is challenging because of the crowds Bengaluru: Varamahalakshmi festival shopping turned into a nightmare for an Ayurvedic doctor after thieves targeted her in the crowded KR Market and made away with a 29-gram gold chain worth over Rs 4 lakh.R Karuna Shree, a Basaveshwaranagar resident, left home around 12.30pm…
A discontinuous footpath on Old Airport Road near Kundalahalli Gate underpass forces pedestrians to walk on the busy carriageway. Bengaluru: Pedestrians on Old Airport Road between Marathahalli and Kundalahalli Gate are being forced to step onto the busy carriageway to get past a series of footpath obstructions. The problem is particularly acute near Kundalahalli Gate…
The city has a total of 2.97 lakh registered cabs, including those operated by independent travel agencies Bengaluru: For the first time, the state govt has revealed the scale of Bengaluru’s app-based cab workforce, estimating that over two lakh drivers are currently associated with ride-hailing aggregators. However, the govt admitted it has no data on…
Jyotsna BasotiaOn Sunday mornings at Lalbagh, a small but growing crowd has gathered for the past three weeks. Children, retirees and walkers form a human chain, walk up to a rock and put their arms around it. The rock is Peninsular Gneiss, a geological formation inside Bengaluru’s oldest botanical garden that dates back more than…
