“India has always been a nation of storytellers,” says Amruta Patil, one of India’s acclaimed graphic novelists and the curator of A Moving Line, an exhibition that gathers more than 250 works to trace 1500 years of Indian storytelling at the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bengaluru. “Long before comic books, graphic novels and…
Bengaluru: It’s a familiar story, but a different exercise: huge apartment complexes with locked houses, and residents staying overseas. This is the crux of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The story is annoyingly similar in the audit of Gruha Jyothi verification drive, slowing the state’s effort to weed out ineligible beneficiaries…
A video showing a BMTC conductor pushing a passenger went viral on social media BENGALURU: The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) on Tuesday suspended a conductor pending a departmental inquiry after a video purportedly showing him pushing a passenger out of a bus and physically assaulting him went viral on social media.The incident took place…
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Puttur MLA Ashok Kumar Rai, reimbursing Pushpavathi, a homemaker residing in Beeramangala, South Kasaba, Sullia taluk, who was cheated by a fraudster using his name in Sullia Mangaluru: A woman whose husband is undergoing treatment was allegedly cheated of Rs 22,500 by a fraudster impersonating a staff member of Puttur MLA Ashok…
Adwaita Nayar, co-founder and CEO of House of Nykaa Bengaluru: Beauty and fashion retailer Nykaa will acquire a 51% stake in premium skincare brand Aminu for up to Rs 32 crore, as its consolidated net profit more than tripled in the June quarter on the back of strong growth across its beauty and fashion businesses.Net…
Sandeep Kalra, CEO, Persistent Systems Bengaluru: Persistent Systems reported a 16.1% year-on-year increase in June-quarter revenue to $452.4 million, extending its streak to 25 consecutive quarters of revenue growth, even as margins came under pressure from hiring ahead of large deal ramp-ups. In constant currency terms, revenue grew 4.1% sequentially and 16.5% year-on-year.The company posted…
Mangaluru: KPCC spokesperson M.G. Hegde strongly objected to actor Anant Nag’s recent statements supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and commenting on social abuses and protests. On Anant Nag’s remark about the ‘contagious disease’ of social abuse and trolling, MG Hegde alleged, “It was the RSS and the Sangh parivaar who first spread this contagious disease…
CM DK Shivakumar urged the disgruntled MLAs to exercise patience and stressed that the Congress was more important than individual political ambitions. BENGALURU: Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday moved to quell growing discontent within the Congress after the cabinet expansion, issuing a stern warning to disgruntled MLAs threatening to resign that their…
Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge defended police actions during protests over a recruitment exam. BENGALURU: A remark by Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge suggesting that those demanding his resignation should first face a “lathi-charge” snowballed into a political controversy on Tuesday, with the BJP accusing the Congress leader of mocking students protesting alleged irregularities in…
Karnataka’s new cabinet has no Brahmin ministers, a first since the state’s formation. BENGALURU: For the first time since the formation of the erstwhile Mysore state—and later Karnataka—the state has no Brahmin representative in the council of ministers.The community, estimated to comprise 2-3% of Karnataka’s population and traditionally seen as a BJP support base, has…
