Bengaluru: Karnataka high court Tuesday deferred hearing on a PIL plea challenging the state govt’s order restricting the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at govt programmes, except those attended by the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister or Governor.Advocate Girish Bharadwaj has challenged the Sept 8 order.A division bench of Justices Anu Sivaraman…
Bengaluru: Karnataka legislature Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution rejecting the Centre’s seventh draft Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) notification. The resolution followed a discussion, held in both the assembly and council, on the Kasturirangan report on the Western Ghats.Moved by chief minister DK Shivakumar, the resolution seeks a one-year window from the Centre for a ground-level…
Bengaluru: Supreme Court Tuesday said the Premium floor area ratio (FAR) scheme should not be used for regularising unauthorised constructions in Karnataka.The scheme, introduced in April 2025 under Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, permits developers to purchase additional floor space after paying premium charges to the civic authorities.Ordering notice to Karnataka govt on a…
Bengaluru: A house in Vivekananda Nagar, Electronics City, whose occupants had been away for two days attending to their ailing son, was burgled after miscreants broke open the front door and made away with gold jewellery weighing 450-500 grams.According to a complaint filed by Ebanezer V, a private firm employee, he admitted his younger son…
Play name: EnchantmentGenre: BiographyCast: Yohan Chacko, Aarabi Veeraraghavan, Anjana Anand, G NarendraDirector: Gowri RamnarayanDuration: 1 hour 30 minutesLanguage: EnglishRating: 3.5 out of 5Review: One might enter Enchantment expecting to learn about the life and achievements of sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar. But while his global legacy is well documented, what often remains less explored is…
Bengaluru: With children spending precious school hours stuck in traffic on the Varthur-Gunjur stretch (SH-35) in east Bengaluru, traffic police have imposed additional restrictions on the movement of heavy vehicles.Heavy goods vehicles will now be restricted from entering the corridor from 7-11am, 1-3pm, and 4-9pm, covering key morning and evening peak-hour periods as well as…
TRAPPED IN TRAFFIC: As school bus speeds drop, brisk walkers outpace them; Thursdays the worst commute day A grade 7 student’s drawing of daily commute — girdlock, honking, missed meals, and an unwell child Bengaluru: Traffic mess on Whitefield-Sarjapur road — the city’s showcase corridor that hosts marquee tech companies — has increased a 10km…
Chief minister DK Shivakumar with his deputy G Parameshwara Bengaluru: Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot wrote to chief minister DK Shivakumar, urging govt to reconsider its decision limiting Vande Mataram to two stanzas at official functions.Govt had ordered only the first two stanzas of the national song be sung at its programmes, except when President, vice-president,…
Shivakumar said there had previously been several judgments on the naming of officers for probes and the procedures to be followed. BENGALURU: Chief minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday expressed reservations over the high court naming IPS officer Alok Kumar to probe the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) cash-for-jobs scam.Speaking on the sidelines of a…
A combination of file photo shows Karnatak governor Thaavar Chand Gehlot and chief minister DK Shivakumar. BENGALURU: Karnataka governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot on Monday wrote to chief minister D K Shivakumar asking him to reconsider the government’s decision to restrict the singing of Vande Mataram to only its first two stanzas.In his four-page letter, the…
