With the price of egg crossing Rs 8 across Karnataka, schools are finding it difficult to buy and distribute eggs among students from within the budgetary allocation Bengaluru: Which came first: Egg or banana? Karnataka’s flagship midday meal scheme, which ensures nearly two-thirds of the total 47 lakh students in govt and aided schools of…
Bengaluru: As drought-like conditions deepen across Karnataka and nearly half of the state’s hydroelectric power stations fall silent, Bengaluru has found an unexpected power lifeline.The state govt has revived the Yelahanka gas-based power plant to avert potential power shortages in the city. The station, which had remained shut for more than four months after natural…
Bengaluru: A 27-year-old delivery executive from Andhra Pradesh allegedly killed himself by lying on a railway track, where he was run over by a train near Huskur station Tuesday.Vishwanath’s severed head was found nearly 500 metres away from the track Wednesday morning, with police suspecting it had been dragged away by a stray dog.Railway police…
Ravi Kumar, CEO, Cognizant Bengaluru: Cognizant shares rose as much as 10.5% in early Nasdaq trading after the IT services company reported a steady second quarter, driven by strong growth in financial services and healthy deal wins, while trimming the upper end of its FY26 revenue growth guidance amid continued macroeconomic uncertainty.The Nasdaq-listed company reported…
Accused Head Constable Manjunath Bengaluru: A head constable attached to Sanjaynagar police station was arrested for allegedly misbehaving with an 18-year-old college student on a BMTC bus near Kommagondanahalli stop Monday afternoon.The arrested policeman, Manjunath, 35, a resident of Jalahalli, filed a counter-complaint against the girl and four others for allegedly assaulting him following the…
The station, which had remained shut for more than four months after natural gas supplies were disrupted by the West Asia conflict, resumed operations Monday and is now feeding electricity into Bengaluru’s grid The station, which had remained shut for more than four months after natural gas supplies were disrupted by the West Asia conflict,…
Bengaluru: Innovative Retail Concepts, which houses BigBasket’s consumer-facing business, reported a 66% widening in net loss to Rs 3,073 crore in FY26 as the Tata Group-owned online grocer stepped up investments to compete in the fast-growing quick commerce market.Revenue grew a modest 7.7% to Rs 8,223 crore in FY26 from Rs 7,634 crore a year…
Bengaluru: Nearly 15 per cent of Karnataka’s electorate, about 84.3 lakh out of 5.5 crore registered voters have been flagged under the absent, shifted, dead, duplicate, and others (ASDDO) list in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive.The Greater Bengaluru Area (GBA) accounts for almost half (46.7 per cent) of these flagged electors, despite holding…
Siddaramaiah (right) said Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had raised the issue in Parliament and demanded Pralhad Joshi’s removal from the Education Ministry. BENGALURU: Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday criticised the appointment of Pralhad Joshi as the Union education minister, alleging that the decision had left Kannadigas “ashamed”…
The accused, identified as Vijay Ragav (42), a fruit vendor and resident of NRI Layout in Ramamurthy Nagar. BENGALURU: A 26-year-old woman allegedly fought back against sexual harassment by confronting a fruit vendor, recording the interaction on her mobile phone and later helping police arrest him after the video went viral on social media.The accused,…
