Residents organised a relay-style cycle rally across the city and conducted a tree-hugging campaign to highlight their potential environmental and urban impacts of tunnel road project Residents organised a relay-style cycle rally across the city and conducted a tree-hugging campaign to highlight their potential environmental and urban impacts of tunnel road project Residents organised a…
Citizens can discover upcoming volunteering opportunities and register at iambengaluru.co.in. Bengaluru: Citizens continued to show up for green spaces Sunday under TOI’s #IamBengaluru – Volunteer for Parks initiative, presented by Multigen in association with Kristu Jayanti University and supported by Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA).At Gottigere Lake, Indian Ploggers Army led a lakeside plogging activity, bringing…
PASSION FOR MUSIC: Ranganathan andSriniketan with their handpans (R) and apractice session of the ensemble Twenty-six handpans turned a Bengaluru festival stage into a sea of metallic sound. At the centre of the 24-member ensemble were brothers, Ranganathan S, 15, and Sriniketan S, 11. They had spent months rehearsing, travelling across the city several times…
A woman recounted her intense journey through Bengaluru’s traffic while trying to catch a train BENGALURU: A woman’s frantic three-hour journey to cover just 19km through peak-hour Bengaluru traffic has drawn attention online after she shared a video recounting how she raced against time to catch a train to Kerala.The woman said she started from…
For years, a stable IT job and a monthly salary of Rs 1 lakh offered Jitender Mann the kind of career many professionals aspire to. But a health scare forced him to reconsider the life he was leading.His blood pressure had reached 160. For Mann, the episode became a wake-up call and prompted him to…
(Representative image) Cuddling or being licked by dogs can lead to rabies transmission if precautions are ignored BENGALURU: Cuddling a dog brings joy, and while being licked by one can make people feel loved and help them unwind. However, experts have a word of caution: Even a one-day-old puppy could harbour rabies virus, making precautions…
The deceased, Yogesh (R), a resident of Nagadevanahalli, was studying in his first year of BCom at a private college BENGALURU: A feud between two college classmates over a senior girl turned fatal in Nagarabhavi on Wednesday, leaving a 19-year-old BCom student dead.The deceased, Yogesh, a resident of Nagadevanahalli, was a first-year BCom student at…
Bengaluru: A missing-person complaint, a body floating in a pond and a secret relationship that turned deadly: Over a decade after tempo driver Nagesh NM, 36, was found murdered on the outskirts of Bengaluru, a court sentenced his wife, mother-in-law and two others to life imprisonment.Nagesh’s elder brother, Raju NM, approached Avalahalli police on Dec…
Volunteers took part in a dry waste plogging drive at Jakkur Lake Park, a clean-up and waste segregation drive at Nagapura local parks 1 and 2 in Rajajinagar, and ‘feed the wings’ creative activity at BBMP Park, Girinagar Bengaluru: The Times of India’s #IamBengaluru – Volunteer for Parks, presented by Multigen, in association with Kristu…
Over 5,200 CHOs have been protesting in Freedom Park Bengaluru: Over 5,200 community health officers (CHOs) working at Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (AAMs) across Karnataka have been protesting for six days, demanding regularisation of services, revision of salaries and fulfilment of other demands.AAMs, formerly known as health and wellness centres, are primary healthcare facilities under National…
