Bengaluru: Anand P Naidu, a district Congress committee member, was arrested on charges of molesting a 16-year-old girl at her house in west Bengaluru.Booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, Naidu was remanded in judicial custody and sent to Bengaluru Central Prison.Based on the complaint filed by the girl’s father, a 40-year-old…
Bengaluru: Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) faces the prospect of being hit with more compensation claims after a few Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout (NPKL) allottees successfully fought their case before the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Rera) and got favourable orders.As of April, site owners have filed 38 complaints against BDA, and the real estate regulator has disposed…
Bengaluru: A major tragedy was narrowly averted in Bengaluru’s Nandini Layout when around 50 young women escaped a raging fire by jumping from their PG accommodation building to safety.The fire broke out in Blue Leaf Signages godown in Annamma Circle, opposite Kanteerava Studio around 12.20am Sunday midnight.LED boards and materials stored in the godown were…
Bengaluru: An RTI reply has pointed to a Rs 1.7 crore difference in expenditure figures for the 11th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference hosted by the Karnataka legislature in Sept last year, with some details not reflected in official budget documents.Participants included Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh, presiding officers…
New to Bengaluru, Kasturee Chakravarty from Guwahati hoped to meet people with similar interests by attending events and joining clubs. That search led her to Cinema Next Door this January. She discovered it through an Instagram post about the screening of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ — a film that was on her watchlist for years — and…
BENGALURU: What could have turned into a major tragedy was narrowly averted in Bengaluru’s Nandini Layout, where around 50 young women escaped a raging fire by jumping from their building to safety.The incident occurred on Sunday night.A major fire broke out in an LED banner godown. The flames quickly started spreading to adjacent buildings, including…
Private company employee, Puja Dutta, was found dead in her Adugodi rented house under disturbing circumstances. BENGALURU: A chilling incident has surfaced in Adugodi, where a 34-year-old private company employee, identified as Puja Dutta, was found dead in a disturbing condition inside her rented house on Monday night.Puja, originally from Hirapur in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, had…
Bengaluru: A committee set up to probe the case of students appearing for the Common Entrance Test (CET) having to remove their janivara (sacred thread) said it seemed the act by the college staff was intentional.The panel, constituted by Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner Jagadeesha G, has also recommended that the college no longer be used…
Bengaluru: In its efforts to improve admission to its schools, the state govt has now promised eight education guarantees.A post shared by chief minister Siddaramaiah and the department of school education Monday lists out the promises that will be rolled out in the next three years.They includes one teacher per class up to class 5…
On any given weekend in Bengaluru, a quiet shift is playing out. At one table, strangers laugh over icebreakers, share a meal, no labels attached. And elsewhere, behind screens, users log into discreet dating platforms, looking for connections they don’t want to name. What ties all of this together is not just curiosity, but a…
