GBA will launch a month-long ‘Freedom from Waste’ campaign in August to eliminate garbage blackspots and improve cleanliness in the city Bengaluru: Greater Bengaluru Authority will launch a month-long ‘Freedom from Waste’ campaign in August to eliminate garbage blackspots and improve cleanliness in the city.Chairing a meeting with GBA officials and commissioners of five city…
Bengaluru: A Target order placed in the US may be fulfilled not from a distant warehouse, but from a store down the road. Before it reaches a customer’s doorstep, technology determines where the product is available, which store should fulfill the order and how employees can pick it most efficiently. Part of that planning happens…
Bengaluru: SV Ramachandra Gowda, one of BJP’s earliest organisation builders in Karnataka and a former minister, died at a private hospital in Bengaluru Tuesday. He was 88 and was undergoing treatment for age-related ailments.A five-time member of the legislative council between 1988 and 2018, Gowda belonged to the RSS tradition and began his political journey…
Bengaluru: Stepping out to buy vegetables proved costly for a family after burglars broke into their locked apartment in Thyagarajanagar, south Bengaluru, and made away with gold jewellery, silver coins, US dollars and cash. The theft came to light when the couple returned home to find their valuables missing.Shripal Kumar, 34, said he and his…
Bengaluru: The mystery surrounding disappearing undergarments at an Indiranagar apartment was solved after two women turned detectives. Troubled by their garments vanishing overnight and reappearing the next day while fresh ones went missing, they installed a hidden camera, which captured the pervert in the act and led to his arrest.The arrested man, Abdul Hussain, alias…
Karnataka guv Thaawar Chand Gehlot, B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan Karnataka governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot Karnataka guv Thaawar Chand Gehlot, B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan Karnataka governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot Karnataka guv Thaawar Chand Gehlot, B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan BENGALURU: Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot on Tuesday returned the file seeking sanction to prosecute former…
Bengaluru: More than 300 people — doctors, hospital staff, schoolchildren, philanthropists, friends and complete strangers — came together to raise nearly Rs 30 lakh for a newborn they had never met. Their collective effort helped make possible what doctors believe is India’s first successful limb-salvage treatment in a 28-day-old baby diagnosed with Infantile Fibrosarcoma (IFS),…
Mangaluru: Wenlock District Hospital’s ambitious plan to add 50 more ICU beds has hit a roadblock due to the shortage of trained nursing staff. While adding beds and ventilators may not be difficult, hospital authorities say finding enough nurses to provide round-the-clock critical care remains the bigger challenge.The hospital recently sought govt approval to increase…
Bengaluru: After nearly 19 years of service at Jain College, a 52-year-old assistant professor was abruptly issued a one-line termination notice, triggering a legal battle that ended in her reinstatement. Usha PS joined the Jain Group of Institutions in 2005 as a lecturer in life sciences at JC Road campus and was shifted in Jan…
Mangaluru: The submission of SIR enumeration forms in Dakshina Kannada stood at 11.9% as of Monday, even as booth level officers (BLOs) distributed forms to nearly 98.5% of the district’s voters.Deputy commissioner Darshan HV said that of the 18,03,766 voters in the district, enumeration forms have been distributed to 17,75,811. However, even after this extensive…
