Bengaluru: A Facebook friendship that began with promises of expensive gifts spiralled into one of the city’s most audacious cyber frauds, with a 52-year-old woman losing Rs 1.7 crore.The fraudsters, posing as a foreign friend and customs officials, lured her into believing a parcel containing gold, diamonds, and other valuables had arrived in India. In…
Bengaluru:Home services startup Pronto is offering select househelp professionals nearly double their regular monthly earnings to wear forehead-mounted cameras while working inside customers’ homes.The workers are part of Pronto Verified, a paid service that allows customers to have cleaning jobs recorded through a visible head-mounted camera. The footage is also used to generate data for…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay has sought a meeting with his Karnataka counterpart, D K Shivakumar, to discuss the release of Cauvery water amid a widening shortfall in the state’s stipulated share and reiterate Tamil Nadu’s opposition to the Mekedatu dam, sources told TOI. Between…
Karnataka mines and geology department secretary Rohini Sindhuri, IAS, chairs a review meeting with senior officials in Bengaluru to assess the department’s performance and outline revenue, enforcement and mine safety targets for the current financial year. Bengaluru: Days after a fatal quarry accident in Bengaluru Rural raised questions over mine safety, Karnataka govt announced a…
Roshni Nadar Malhotra, chairperson of HCLTech Bengaluru: HCLTech plans to invest Rs 14,257 crore to set up its first AI data centre at the upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park, marking one of the country’s largest investments in sovereign AI infrastructure.The IT firm will establish the AI data centre in partnership with homegrown AI startup Sarvam…
Will the students get their degree or not? Bengaluru: Confusion over the multiple entry-exit provision under National Education Policy (NEP) has left a batch of hotel management students in limbo, with a city college asking them to return and complete the fourth year after they had exited the programme at the end of the third.The…
The BLOs completed the last leg of the enumeration form distribution on July 23, with all 5.5 crore voters reached as per the data published by the chief electoral officer Bengaluru: The city, marred with several complaints of details of the 2002 voter rolls not being found, and slow enumeration pace, will receive at least…
Bengaluru: In a chilling case of alleged gender bias, a 13-day-old baby girl was allegedly murdered by her own father in Chikkaballapura after he was reportedly upset that his second child was also a daughter.The accused, Imran, has been arrested by Chikkaballapura police for allegedly throwing the newborn into the water sump at his in-laws’…
Bengaluru: A dispute over a Rs 10 ticket refund allegedly turned violent as a BMTC passenger assaulted a conductor and driver on a moving bus near Devanahalli, leaving one of them with a fractured nasal bone.According to a complaint filed by conductor DR Narendra Babu, 41, of BMTC’s Devanahalli depot, he and driver Narasimha Reddy…
Bengaluru: A routine commute on a BMTC bus turned into a harrowing experience for a software engineer after a gang of four stole his mobile phone. His quick reflexes, coupled with timely intervention of the bus crew and commuters, foiled the theft, leading to the arrest of one pickpocket while three accomplices escaped.Software engineer Likhith,…
