Bengaluru: A court in Bengaluru sentenced three rowdies to life imprisonment for the murder of an autorickshaw driver over an unreturned loan of Rs 2,000.Venkatesh, Puneet and Nagaraj — rowdies from KP Agrahara area — were found guilty of killing D Nagaraj in March 2016.According to police records, Nagaraj borrowed Rs 2,000 from Venkatesh and…
Footpaths at and around Jalahalli are in deplorable conditions Bengaluru: Jalahalli Cross moves thousands of vehicles every hour. But for pedestrians, one of the city’s busiest junctions offers little more than a choice between broken footpaths and moving traffic.A TOI walk across all four roads radiating from the junction found a striking pattern: pedestrian infrastructure…
Bengaluru: A bomb threat email sent to the department of space and Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) headquarters triggered a major security scare Thursday at Antariksh Bhavan on New BEL Road, north Bengaluru.After officials received the email on Isro’s official email ID claiming that explosives had been planted inside the premises, the staff were evacuated…
Bribe cash rupees notes wad coins Bengaluru: Karnataka Lokayukta Thursday caught an accountant from the accountant general (AG) office while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 13,000 to process the release of court-deposited funds.The accused official is Adarsha Kumar Singh, who works in the AG office on Park House Road near Ambedkar Veedhi.Lokayukta said the…
Bengaluru: Arguing that Bengaluru’s planning regulations must keep pace with its rapid urban growth, Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (Credai) Bengaluru urged Karnataka govt to substantially increase the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) proposed under the draft Uniform Zonal Regulations, saying the current limits could constrain housing supply and drive up home prices.In…
Chikkaballapur: An 18-year-old engineering student was assaulted and stabbed inside her home at Chintamani town in Chikkaballapur, hours after she reportedly confronted two men for allegedly harassing her on the street.The victim, S Meghana, a first-year engineering student and part-time dance teacher, is undergoing treatment for stab injuries to her neck and abdomen.On June 30…
Rural students access online learning resources at an Arivu Kendra (village library) in a gram panchayat in Karnataka. Bengaluru: A child walking into a village library in Karnataka could soon have access not only to books but also to world literature, cultural programmes, language learning methods and pathways to global careers. Planning to transform about…
Bengaluru: A college student’s dream of pursuing a modelling career has spiralled into a horrifying cybercrime, with her photographs being uploaded across multiple adult websites and social media platforms. The accused, claiming to be a hacker, demanded more intimate photographs in exchange for removing the content and threatened to create and circulate more fake nude…
Motorists stranded on outer ring road between Kalyan nagar, Hormavu junction as Namma Metro Blue Line corridor construction face severe delays Bengaluru: For the last three months, thousands of motorists and commuters travelling from Hebbal to Tin Factory have been spending a significant chunk of time stuck in the traffic gridlock in Kalyan Nagar.The already…
The room where the two children were sleeping before the house collapsed, causing their death at Nagori in Mangaluru Wednesday Mangaluru: As rescue operations wound up at Nagori after a landslip triggered a retaining wall collapse that killed three people, concerns have emerged over survivors who have lost everything.The state govt has announced Rs 5…
