Boy’s Drowning Karnataka high court Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court has refused to accept a Rs 2 lakh compensation offered by three accused persons over the drowning of a toddler in a water tank.In a tragic incident this May, the two-and-a-half-year-old boy entered an under-construction building – the premises of the petitioners – in Rajarajeshwari…
File picture of farmers protesting the project in Bidadi. CM DK Shivakumar said relief has already been paid to farmers willing to part with land Bengaluru: In a bid to defuse the controversy over the proposed Greater Bengaluru Integrated Township near Bidadi, chief minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday assured farmers that no land would…
Following the clean-up by corporation, around 50 volunteers from Youth for Parivarthan (YFP) beautified the stretch by painting portraits and awareness messages on the compound wall on Bannerghatta Road stretch Bengaluru: A month ago, a 200-metre stretch of Bannerghatta Road near Jayanagar fire station at Dairy Circle was unusable for pedestrians because of heaps of…
Chief minister DK Shivakumar interact with the representatives of Apartment Associations regarding Karnataka Apartment (Ownership and Maintenance) Bill, 2025 at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bengaluru Wednesday Bengaluru: The govt’s latest consultation on Karnataka Apartment Ownership and Management (KAOM) Bill was as much a political outreach as a policy exercise, with CM DK Shivakumar using the…
Rishad Premji, Chairman, Wipro Bengaluru: Enterprises have moved beyond experimenting with artificial intelligence and are now embedding the technology into core business processes, marking a shift from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, Wipro chairman Rishad Premji said on Wednesday.“We believe AI represents one of the most fundamental shifts of our time,” Premji told shareholders at Wipro’s…
Bengaluru: Cognizant Technology Solutions is set to receive $5.5 million under a proposed settlement of a long-running shareholder derivative lawsuit linked to the company’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation and subsequent securities litigation.According to a notice filed in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, Cognizant’s directors’ and officers’ insurers will…
Emergent co-founders (L-R) Madhav Jha and Mukund Jha Bengaluru: AI startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a funding round that values the company at $1.5 billion, making it a unicorn less than a year after its public launch. The company, which enables users without coding skills to build web and mobile applications using AI,…
Bengaluru: Groww parent Billionbrains Garage Ventures reported a 94% year-on-year jump in net profit to Rs 735 crore for the June quarter, driven by strong growth in newer businesses, including margin trading and commodity derivatives.Revenue rose 63% to Rs 1,549 crore from Rs 948 crore a year earlier, while total expenses increased 25% to Rs…
Bengaluru: The Indian government, through a $600 million (about Rs 5,781 crore) climate fund jointly backed with Japan, is investing another Rs 200 crore in Ather Energy. The fund first backed the electric scooter maker in 2024, ahead of its stock market listing the following year.The India-Japan Fund will participate in a Rs 1,200 crore…
Bengaluru: Bengaluru residents can now order small LPG cylinders on Swiggy Instamart without a regular domestic LPG connection, as the quick-commerce platform expands into a tightly regulated household category. Instamart, in partnership with state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), has begun a pilot in parts of Uttarahalli and Subramanyapura, a company spokesperson told TOI. The…
