Traffic gridlock on Varthur-Gunjur stretch in Bengaluru Thursday Bengaluru: A day after TOI highlighted how students spent up to 2.5 hours in school buses to travel a few kilometres on the Varthur-Gunjur stretch (SH-35), the situation on Friday was marginally better. Parents said schoolchildren remained stuck in long traffic queues on their commute home, maybe…
Bengaluru: The horrific traffic snarls on NH-35 this week, which have left thousands of schoolchildren spending hours trapped on roads and buses, have once again raised concerns over the time children are losing to their daily commute — time that could otherwise be spent learning, playing, sleeping or enjoying the simple joys of childhood.Dr Sampat…
Police said the accused, Wala Bhaskar Reddy, allegedly planned to extort Rs 1 crore from the boy’s realtor father. BENGALURU: A UK-returned MTech graduate, who had recently joined an infrastructure company, has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and killing the 13-year-old son of his former neighbour in Bengaluru Urban district on Wednesday night.Police said…
Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar BENGALURU: The department of collegiate education has directed govt first-grade colleges to prohibit students from taking selfies or shooting reels during educational tours, citing safety concerns. Tour duration, including travel, is capped at five days.These instructions are part of a detailed set of safety guidelines issued for college excursions on Sept…
Bengaluru: Angry citizens staged sharp and fierce counter-attacks on a BJP MP after he tried to blame the Cong govt for the traffic nightmare on the Varthur-Gunjur stretch.Reacting to reports of schoolchildren spending hours in traffic, Bangalore Central MP PC Mohan asked on X: “Yesterday, schoolchildren took 2.5 hours to travel just 4km. How can…
For Ira Khan, mental health has never been a straight road. There are good days and bad ones, periods when treatment works and moments when she knows she needs to ask for help again. After nearly nine years in therapy, she says she’s in a steadier place with her depression now, though she knows that…
Bengaluru: A 31-year-old man allegedly obtained a passport using a fake rental agreement and concealed pending criminal cases before fleeing to Saudi Arabia. He had submitted an application claiming to be a resident of Bengaluru and even cleared police verification.An intelligence bureau input later revealed that he was facing criminal cases in Tamil Nadu, and…
Bengaluru: A 32-year-old woman working as an associate vice-president at a private firm in Whitefield has filed a complaint against a man she met through a matrimonial app in 2020, alleging that he repeatedly harassed her, threatened to kill her and posted sexually abusive comments about her on Instagram.In her complaint, Apoorva (name changed) said…
Krishna Shelton, the apartment complex where the boy went missing from Bengaluru: When police confronted Bhaskar Reddy after finding the body of a boy wrapped in an old bed inside his car, he had a ready explanation: an unknown pedestrian who had come under the wheels of his car near Hosahalli Junction. “As the boy…
Krishna Byre Gowda said govt has identified 26 acres of land and aims to shift as many vehicles as possible in the next one month Bengaluru: Earlier this week, the state govt began the relocation of 11,346 seized or abandoned vehicles lying in and around police stations across the city. As much as 26 acres…
