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Bengaluru: Property owners in Bengaluru have been given an additional week to clean their vacant sites, with Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) extending the deadline from Aug 15 to 22.The extension comes following requests from property owners for more time to remove accumulated debris, overgrown weeds and other waste from their premises. GBA has warned that…
Bengaluru: While climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, eight-year-old Samarth Disan from Bengaluru did not realise he was on his way to achieving a remarkable feat.Samarth triumphantly reached the summit last month after an arduous seven-day journey that took him through diverse terrains, including lava fields, rainforests and alpine desert. A Grade 3 student and…
Bengaluru: The transport department issued show-cause notices to major ride-hailing aggregators, including Ola, Uber, Rapido and Namma Yatri, alleging violations of govt-prescribed fare norms.The action follows complaints from several taxi and driver associations that the aggregators were charging passengers fares higher than the rates notified by govt on Feb 3, 2024. The associations alleged that…
Bengaluru: Ten days after expanding his cabinet, chief minister D K Shivakumar Wednesday ended days of suspense, allocating portfolios to all 19 new ministers and reshuffling key departments held by senior ministers Ramalinga Reddy and K H Muniyappa.There is still no woman minister in the cabinet.The allocation, announced on the eve of the legislature’s Monsoon…
Bengaluru: A routine morning ride turned fatal for a 32-year-old woman, who was thrown into the path of an oncoming mini goods vehicle after the two-wheeler she was riding pillion on skidded on a slushy, badly damaged stretch of a road in Electronics City here Wednesday.The victim, Medha Akarsh, a resident of Anantnagar and a…
K-RIDE, along with contractor L&T, commenced preliminary work for Bengaluru suburban rail project near Nagawara Bengaluru: Bengaluru Suburban Transport Project (BSTP) has achieved just 19.9% physical progress in three-and-a-half years as of July, according to implementing agency Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka).“Tenders have been invited for approximately 9km of viaduct works under corridor-2 and for…
Bengaluru: A surprise raid at the Central Prison in Parappana Agrahara on Tuesday afternoon has once again brought convicted former MP Prajwal Revanna, grandson of former PM H D Deve Gowda, under scrutiny after officials allegedly recovered a 5G smartphone loaded with social media and OTT applications from the high-security cell he shared with another…
Bengaluru: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed an FSSAI order prohibiting the sale of certain whisky and rum products made by Associated Alcohols and Breweries (AABL), granting interim relief to the liquor maker in its dispute with the food regulator.The Indore bench observed that FSSAI’s July 29 prohibition order did not consider AABL’s detailed…
Bengaluru Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara Bengaluru: Repeated raids at Bengaluru Central Prison have uncovered what prison authorities believe is a well-organised network supplying sim cards purchased in Andhra Pradesh to inmates, allowing them to use smuggled mobile phones despite signal-jamming measures inside the jail at Parappana Agrahara.Director general of police (prisons and correctional services)…
