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Bengaluru: From the womb to adolescence, early-life experiences leave measurable imprints on the brain, shaping mental health, cognition and disease risks decades later. That was the focus of Param (Pathways to Resilience and Mental Health)-Connect, held at Nimhans Monday, which brought together leading neurodevelopment cohorts from across India.Researchers presented findings from long-running studies in Mysuru,…

Bengaluru: The severely delayed Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP) secured a boost with the govt issuing a notification to acquire nearly 31,000sqm of land near Devanahalli to set up a primary depot for the Majestic-Devanahalli corridor. The Sampige Line (Corridor-1) will connect Majestic and Devanahalli via Yelahanka, and officials plan a primary depot for this…

Bengaluru: After demolishing Jayadeva flyover for an interchange Metro station and marking Delmia flyover for removal under a double-decker corridor plan on Outer Ring Road, the city is set to raze another flyover.Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Limited (B-Smile) has identified a contractor to build a Rs 436-crore elevated rotary flyover at the busy IOC Junction. The…

Bengaluru: Heavy rain and winds in and around the city have time and again exposed a critical gap in its preparedness — the absence of a Doppler weather radar. The record rain on April 29, which intensified within minutes and left several areas flooded, once again highlighted how the lack of a real-time, hyperlocal forecasting…

Bengaluru: Congress retained Davanagere South assembly seat but barely, as minority unrest and internal dissent sharply reduced its victory margin in what has long been a Shamanur family stronghold. Congress candidate Samarth Mallikarjun, grandson of late Shamanur Shivashankarappa, trailed in eight of the 21 rounds of counting before securing a win by 5,708 votes —…

Bengaluru: Yelahanka police Monday arrested a 44-year-old daily wage worker and three of his associates on charges of murdering a food delivery agent, whose body was found inside a rajakaluve (storm drain) in Yelahanka Friday last, with preliminary police investigations revealing that he was strangled to death. Police said the man was killed because he…

Bengaluru: Parents’ associations in Karnataka have urged the state govt to do as Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta has done: warned private schools against compelling parents to buy books and uniforms from specific vendors.Even though Karnataka has similar rules in place, they are hardly enforced anywhere. Several parents in the state have won favourable judgements…

Bengaluru: A clandestine relationship between a divorced man and a college professor met a gruesome end last week, with bodies of both found a day apart by police — the woman’s inside a car, completely charred, and the man’s on railway tracks, severed into pieces.C Ramanjinappa, 45, a resident of Marasandra near Rajanakunte, worked at…

Bengaluru: Citing the Supreme Court’s rulings in two maintenance cases, the Karnataka high court has directed a BHEL employee to pay Rs 15,000 per month as maintenance to his wife from the date of application till her lifetime. The husband is now required to pay the arrears from March 2016 within two months.The couple, both…

Bengaluru: Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium has launched a new sky show that retraces one of humanity’s longest-running space missions, the journey of Nasa’s twin Voyager spacecraft that continue travelling beyond the solar system nearly five decades after launch.Titled “Voyager – The Never-Ending Journey”, the 33-minute programme opened to the public on April 30 and combines a…