NCRB Economic offences data for Bengaluru Bengaluru: India’s tech capital witnessed at least one economic offence — including forgery, cheating, fraud, financial scams, and related white-collar crimes — every 2.5 hours over the past three years (2022, 2023 and 2024) for which crime data is available.In all, the city reported 10,580 such cases during these…
Koramangala residents launch community cleanup drive, install dustbins on streets Bengaluru: Frustrated by littering and the absence of public dustbins, residents of Koramangala launched a community-led cleanliness initiative that has transformed parts of the neighbourhood.The drive, involving Siddharth Dialani and other local residents, saw installation of multiple dustbins across four streets, putting up awareness banners…
Bengaluru: Thousands of property owners in Bengaluru have been receiving notices from the city corporations demanding payment of property tax dues, including arrears of penalty, cess, and interest, for five years starting 2020-21. As initial show-cause notices are now being converted into demand notices, citizens have been taken aback by the conditions imposed for filing…
TENDING TO THE EARTH: HSR Citizen Forum collects unused blouse pieces and turns them into cloth bags In Bengaluru’s apartment communities, environmental change rarely arrives in form of grandiose plans and sweeping declarations – it begins quietly, with a handful of residents working hard to find green solutions to practical irritations of community living. In…
BENGALURU: An 18-year-old NEET aspirant allegedly died by suicide at her home in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, police said on Sunday.The student, identified as Bhagyashree, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home, she was academically bright and had scored 92 per cent in her PUC examinations.Speaking to reporters, her father Rajashekhar said the family…
Mumbai’s housing societies are revitalizing community bonding through organized sports leagues MUMBAI: The pearly gates of suburban Mumbai’s housing societies are burnishing the traditional idea of social recreation. Residents of posh complexes in Malad, Borivli, Mulund and Powai are no longer simply filling Holi balloons at the community tap or playing tambola to win dinner…
Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has proposed a 60km extension to Tumakuru BENGALURU: BMRCL has submitted a detailed project report (DPR) for extending Namma Metro to Tumakuru. Once implemented, the network would become the state’s first inter-district Metro corridor.Sources said the DPR proposes two implementation models for the 60km corridor – one to be…
A 17-year-old boxing trainee in Bengaluru has accused her coach, Ramachandra (Image), of sexual harassment over several months. Bengaluru: A 17-year-old first year PUC student undergoing boxing training through a club in Kanteerava stadium was allegedly sexually harassed by her coach for the last few months. Following the complaint filed by the girl’s mother Sampangiramanagar…
A 26-year-old woman, Lakshmi Priya, died at her residence in Bengaluru. BENGALURU: A 26-year-old woman, wife of a police constable, died under suspicious circumstances at her residence in the KR Pura police quarters. Her family has accused her husband and in-laws of subjecting her to continuous mental and physical harassment after marriage.The deceased has been…
BENGALURU: In what is being billed as Bengaluru’s biggest sporting infrastructure push in decades, Karnataka on Saturday launched work on a new international cricket stadium and integrated sports complex in Anekal taluk, near Bannerghatta National Park, around 24 km from the city centre.The Rs 943-crore project, spread across 75 acres and being developed by Karnataka…
