Bengaluru: A Ganesha immersion procession turned chaotic near Orion Avenue Mall recently when a 19-year-old girl drove her car into the procession, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, injuring a few participants. Police personnel intervened to protect her from an angry crowd when they tried to assault the girl. But she abused the policemen, struck…
Bengaluru: In an unsettling case of house burglary, a head constable attached to Yelahanka New Town police station returned home after a long day of duty to find that thieves had broken into his rented residence and fled with gold jewellery and cash.Rangappa Bandivaddara told police that he had been living in the rented house…
Rashmi Mahesh, additional chief secretary, department of school education and literacy Bengaluru: The department of school education and literacy is planning to revamp the open school system for secondary and higher secondary education in the state. A draft of Karnataka Open School (KOS) Rules, 2026, is likely to permit transfer of credits from other boards,…
Bengaluru: With the spotlight on drug safety in recent days, the govt will soon set up a high-quality laboratory to obtain scientifically robust sample test reports, health minister UT Khader said Wednesday.He was speaking at an interaction on food safety with industry stakeholders organised by Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC).“We need to strengthen…
Bengaluru: Public-health activists in Karnataka are demanding a dedicated public health cadre, on the lines of Tamil Nadu, to prevent incidents such as the drug racket recently busted in Bidadi in which spurious drugs reportedly reached around 90 hospitals and clinics.Public-health doctor and researcher Dr Sylvia Karpagam said the episode highlighted the need to move…
Bengaluru: Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FDA) has urged the Centre to regulate prices of essential medical devices to reduce patients’ out-of-pocket expenditure, proposing a national framework to identify essential devices and cap their prices.FDA commissioner Srinivas K, in letters dated Sept 18 to Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), department of pharmaceuticals and…
Bengaluru: The Congress govt faced embarrassment during the special legislative session on drought when three-time party MLA Yashvanthraygoud V Patil submitted his resignation on Wednesday, protesting exclusion of Indi and Chadachan taluks in Vijayapura district from the drought-hit list.This was Patil’s second resignation attempt this year. In Aug, he had quit the assembly after being…
Bengaluru: Amid a severe drought that has seen 177 taluks declared drought-hit and a raging row with Tamil Nadu over Cauvery water release, Karnataka on Wednesday agreed to release 3 tmcft of Krishna water, in phases, to Telangana to protect standing crops in the neighbouring state.Chief minister D K Shivakumar agreed to release water from…
Bengaluru: In a major reform aimed at protecting classroom instructions and interest of students, the state govt has drafted a new legislation to regulate deployment of teachers from govt and aided schools for non-academic duties such as SIR of electoral rolls, census and election-related work.The draft has been sent to other govt departments for concurrence.One…
By Deepa Natarajan LoboA passport photograph is meant to be a snapshot of an individual in their most formal, unadorned form. But what happens when this impersonal document is used to tell a deeply personal story? That’s the idea behind ‘Passport’, a project that looks at identity through the experiences of acid attack survivors.A collaboration…
