Bengaluru: Swiggy narrowed its June-quarter loss by 34% to Rs 791 crore, helped by stronger food delivery earnings and lower losses at its quick-commerce business, Instamart, from Rs 1,197 crore a year earlier. Total income rose 39% to Rs 7,023 crore from Rs 5,048 crore. Sequentially, the loss was largely unchanged from Rs 800 crore…
Bengaluru: No decision has been taken to increase funds for eggs in midday meals, department of school education (midday meals) said at a review meeting Thursday.Schools across the state have been urging govt to increase money allocated for eggs. The authorities provide Rs 5 for an egg and Re 1 for logistics. However, retail price…
Bengaluru: All engineering colleges affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) will conduct integrated health camps with special focus on HIV awareness, testing, and counselling under the Mobilisation for AIDS Suraksha (MAS) programme.Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) has asked VTU to facilitate the camps across its affiliated institutions. VTU is the umbrella university for engineering…
Bengaluru: All engineering colleges affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) will conduct integrated health camps with special focus on HIV awareness, testing, and counselling under the Mobilisation for AIDS Suraksha (MAS) programme.Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) has asked VTU to facilitate the camps across its affiliated institutions. VTU is the umbrella university for engineering…
Bengaluru: A moral policing incident near a lakeside escalated into a violent attack after a group of men allegedly chased an entrepreneur and his woman friend to a battery-manufacturing unit near Doddaballapur, stormed the factory, assaulted those inside with weapons, vandalised the property, and allegedly molested the woman.The incident took place on the night of…
Bengaluru-Chennai expressway Bengaluru-Chennai expressway Bengaluru-Chennai expressway Bengaluru-Chennai expressway Bengaluru-Chennai expressway Bengaluru-Chennai expressway Bengaluru-Chennai expressway Bengaluru: Uncertainty continues over the full-fledged opening of Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, with construction delays in Tamil Nadu. The 25.5-km stretch between Arakkonam and Kancheepuram is a major bottleneck, with construction work halted since May 2025 and only 53% of the work being…
Balaji T, the headmaster of a govt school in Ramanagara The tree suddenly collapsed on the headmaster around 1.30pm near Attiguppe Metro station Balaji T, the headmaster of a govt school in Ramanagara The tree suddenly collapsed on the headmaster around 1.30pm near Attiguppe Metro station Balaji T, the headmaster of a govt school in…
Midwifery was done away with a while ago but early childhood care in India still runs on “trust” factor and “maternal instincts” Renu Sharma, who works with a Bengaluru-based fintech firm, hired a personal nanny for her child, but had to let her go quickly. “She would just be on her phone even while carrying…
Health minister UT Khader speaks after inaugurating a programme organised as part of ‘Operation Rise’ and ‘Beda Bro’ campaigns aimed at making Dakshina Kannada drug-free, in Mangaluru on Thursday TIMES NEWS NETWORKMangaluru: The health department is all set to give much emphasis to digitisation with the introduction of paperless hospitals initiative, providing broadband connections to…
A farmer in Kurugodu, Ballari district, sprays bio-pesticide on a chilli crop to control the infestation of black thrips, one of the most destructive pests affecting chilli cultivation across Karnataka. Bengaluru: Tiny enough to escape the naked eye but destructive enough to devastate an entire crop, black thrips have emerged as one of the gravest…
