B Nagendra is being investigated for alleged links to the alleged Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation scam Bengaluru/Hubballi: A court setback for newly inducted minister B Nagendra and a viral audio purportedly featuring two senior Congress functionaries questioning his return to the cabinet piled pressure on the DK Shivakumar govt over his reinduction despite…
Bengaluru: A 23-year-old postgraduate student, HM Manasa, who was injured after an auto rickshaw rammed into her on Bangalore University campus on July 30, died Wednesday.The first-year MA student of visual arts, Manasa lived in the university hostel, said her relative Prajwal NC, who lodged a complaint at Jnanabharati traffic police station. Manasa belonged to…
Aravind Mani, CEO and co-founder, River Mobility Bengaluru: Electric scooter maker River Mobility on Wednesday said it has raised $120 million in a funding round that will help it expand manufacturing capacity, widen its retail footprint and launch new products.The round comprises equity led by Elev8 Venture Partners and Claypond Capital, with participation from Singularity…
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson of Biocon Bengaluru: Biocon’s net profit surged more than fourfold to Rs 141 crore in the June quarter from Rs 31 crore a year earlier, led by robust growth in its biosimilars and generics businesses.The Bengaluru-based biopharmaceutical company’s income increased 9% year-on-year to Rs 4,391 crore in the first quarter of FY27.Its…
FILE PHOTO: Bottles of Heineken beer are displayed on a shelf in a supermarket in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina October 29, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Bengaluru: United Breweries (UBL) has flagged Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Haryana as markets where the economics of selling beer have become unsustainable, with state-controlled prices failing to keep pace with…
Profound founders Anuj Rathi and Prashant Parashar Bengaluru: Former Swiggy executive Anuj Rathi and former Zomato chief technology officer Prashant Parashar have raised $1.5 million in seed funding for Profound, an AI startup building digital representatives for professionals.The round saw participation from Swiggy co-founders Sriharsha Majety and Nandan Reddy, former Zomato co-founder Pankaj Chaddah, Razorpay…
Bengaluru: The number of seats earmarked under the Right to Education (RTE) quota in Karnataka fell by nearly 28% in a year, from 2.3 lakh in 2024-25 to just under 1.7 lakh in 2025-26, according to data submitted by the Union education ministry in Parliament. The private schools’ association attributed this drop to the large…
Bengaluru: The high court has directed Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) to implement its Jan 2020 resolution providing for an 18-metre-wide access road at Jakkur Plantation village, ruling that it cannot revive an earlier 9.5-metre road proposal after it had been scrapped and the wider road had received judicial approval.A division bench of Justice DK Singh…
Senior IAS officer of Karnataka PC Jaffer, IAS Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Wednesday appointed senior IAS officer Jaffer PC as the new Managing Director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), replacing Ravishankar J, who has been transferred.Jaffer, a 2003-batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, had been holding additional charge as BMRCL Managing Director…
We will soon bring out a dedicated women’s health policy: Health minister UT Khader BENGALURU: Karnataka is set to introduce what could become India’s first dedicated women’s health policy, with its first phase focusing on menopause and perimenopause, health minister UT Khader announced on Tuesday.“We have a general health policy, but there is no separate…
