Bengaluru: Roppen Transportation Services Pvt Ltd, which operates mobility platform Rapido, has received a five-year licence from the state transport authority to operate cab services across Karnataka. The licence is valid until Aug 2031.In a press release, Rapido stated that the company operates in 21 cities, supports over 3.1 lakh captains and has more than…
Bengaluru: Karnataka government has approved the phased rollout of SAMASTA, a digital platform aimed at replacing the mountains of manual records maintained by ASHA workers, Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), health inspectors and other community health workers, in a move expected to cut their data-entry workload by around 75%.The government order issued on Thursday said the…
Bengaluru: An online marble purchase turned out to be a fraud after a 50-year-old man was duped of Rs 4.6 lakh by scamsters posing as marble traders from Rajasthan.According to the complaint filed by M Abdul Salam, a resident of Byrasandra in Jayanagar, he came into contact with a woman identified as Anjali around six…
The request escalated into an argument, following which the woman allegedly slapped Nimisha Bengaluru: A routine commute on Namma Metro turned violent when a dispute over a queue allegedly led to the assault of a 23-year-old woman at Rajarajeshwarinagar Metro station Tuesday morning.According to the complaint filed with police, Nimisha DR, an accountant from BEML…
Photo for representation for parking on road Bengaluru: The city is all set to put a price on one of its most contested public resources — road space. Under the proposed Greater Bengaluru Authority Parking Rules, 2026, residents who want to park their cars on the road outside their homes will have to obtain annual…
Bengaluru: KSRTC buses remain parked at the Majestic Bus Stand amid the statewide Karnataka bandh called by Kannada organisations and activists to protest the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, in Bengaluru on Thursday, August 13, 2026. (Photo: IANS) Bengaluru: The Karnataka bandh over the Cauvery water-sharing dispute, called by Kannada Okkuta, a federation…
Kopal: In a symbolic protest during the statewide bandh over the Cauvery river dispute, pro-Kannada activists in Koppal offered roses to drivers of Tamil Nadu-registered heavy vehicles, urging them not to “provoke” Karnataka.The bandh drew a mixed response across the state. In Koppal, the demonstration briefly disrupted highway traffic until police intervened and detained the…
Bengaluru: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have released an open-source voice AI model that can recognise speech in 65 Indian languages and dialects.The model, called SraVaani, was developed by IISc’s SPIRE Lab with ARTPARK and support from Google. It can convert spoken words into text across 10 scripts and automatically identify the…
MCC commissioner Rahul Ratnam Pandey at an interaction with the media on Thursday Mangaluru: Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) commissioner Rahul Ratnam Pandey said that the urban local body will seek funds to upgrade the underground drainage (UGD) network which was commissioned in the city in 1961.At an interaction with the media on Thursday, the commissioner…
Bengaluru: 3M India is emerging as a larger global innovation and capability hub for the US-based industrial major, with its India GCC crossing 400 employees and the company increasingly developing products and capabilities here for markets beyond India.Aseem Joshi, MD, 3M India, said the Bengaluru GCC, which had fewer than 100 employees two to three…
