Transport minister Ramalinga Reddy Monday warned employees of state-run road transport corporations against participating in the statewide bus strike scheduled for Wednesday, stating that disciplinary action will be initiated against those abstaining from duty.The warning comes after the joint action committee (JAC) of transport unions decided to go ahead with the agitation over wage revision…
Bengaluru: The main carriageway of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) tech corridor is set to be ripped open for concretisation, with work expected to last at least a year and trigger major disruption along one of the city’s busiest corridors. Under the Rs 378-crore redevelopment project, the existing tar stretch from Silk Board Junction to…
Bengaluru: Close on the heels of the tragic death of a tourist during a clash between two elephants at the Dubare elephant camp in Kodagu, the forest department has imposed sweeping restrictions on tourist interaction with captive elephants across all 14 elephant camps in Karnataka. The new measures include a complete ban on feeding, bathing…
Bengaluru: Think twice before reaching for your favourite namkeen or savoury/salted snacks. Namkeens such as boondi, sev, chips and chow chow mixture, along with dairy products, emerged as the most unsafe food items in Karnataka in 2025-26, according to the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA).The findings came after the department analysed 35,639 food samples…
Bengaluru: A 54-year-old city-based realtor has filed a complaint with the Central Crime Branch (CCB) police alleging that he has been receiving extortion calls from someone claiming to be fugitive underworld operative Vicky Shetty.Complainant GK Shankar from Vidyaranyapura said he first got a WhatsApp call on the morning of April 21, with the caller claiming…
Nearly a month after a 17-year-old girl and her father went missing a week apart, Tumakuru police have solved the case. BENGALURU: Nearly a month after a 17-year-old girl and her father went missing a week apart, Tumakuru police have solved the case. The 48-year-old man killed his daughter over her choice of groom, and…
Bengaluru: A 40-year-old-tea shop owner from Doddaballapur was bludgeoned to death by a miscreant after he demanded payment of Rs 200 for an unpaid bill from the accused.The suspect, identified as Muniyappa of Appakranahalli village, on May 12, visited the tea shop owned by Manjunath, a resident of Dyavasandra village in Doddaballapur Rural, and demanded…
BENGALURU: For a brief moment Saturday, around 100 employees at BMTC’s Yeshwanthpur depot-26 may have felt that long-promised rewards had finally arrived in full. Then came the phone calls.In what the corporation described as a “technical error”, a billing clerk accidentally credited the entire 26 months’ salary revision arrears to about 100 staff members instead…
BENGALURU: India may have taken the term “filthy rich” literally. Indian cities’ growth remains tied to polluting fossil-fuel use and consequent pollution while China and several other countries have pulled ahead on cleaner urbanisation, according to a study in Nature Cities in which researchers analysed 5,435 cities worldwide between 2019 and 2024 using satellite-based nitrogen…
Bengaluru: Three miscreants robbed a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation official working in the city of two mobile phones and some cash early Sunday morning.The victim, K Mahipal, was walking to his office located in the KSRTC bus terminal when the miscreants blocked him close to Sangam Circle, near Majestic, at around 5.30am, police said….
