11cm in 1 hour: Deluge could have filled 30,000 pools, two-thirds of Bengaluru’s lakes BENGALURU: The squally thundershowers along with hailstorms that lasted a little over an hour Wednesday evening across central Bengaluru — hailed as the wettest April day in the city’s recorded climatological history — poured over 11cm of rain, according to India…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka govt’s announcement on Thursday that street vendors will be evicted from near Bowring Hospital has rattled hundreds of traders, who are looking down the barrel with no assurance on allotment of kiosks in designated hawking zones.When TOI visited the spot on Thursday afternoon, the footpath which held 300 vendors was empty. Barricades…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only BENGALURU: Erratic pre-monsoon rains may have cooled districts surrounding Bengaluru. The city’s temperature dropped by a degree in a day. But the northern and central parts of the state continue to blaze in the summer heat, even recording a one-degree increase in 24 hours on Thursday.After the hail and…
Bengaluru: Terming the wall collapse tragedy that claimed seven lives at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital (rechristened as Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hospital) as a fallout of “maladministration”, Karnataka Lokayukta Justice BS Patil Thursday announced that action would be taken against those responsible.Accompanied by Upa Lokayuktas Justice B Veerappa and Justice KN Phaneendra, Justice Patil…
Bengaluru: For Vaibhav Mahapatra, a student at Primus Public School, exams were not the only war he was waging. He was fighting a bigger battle — one with cancer.Diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in Feb 2024, when he had just stepped into Class 9, Vaibhav’s life took an unexpected turn. What followed was months…
Bengaluru: Following an energetic debut, Happy Streets by The Times of India will return to Nandini Layout for its second edition Sunday, May 3. The stretch near Oxford Secondary School will once again be transformed into a vibrant, vehicle-free zone, offering residents a space for fitness, recreation and community interaction.The morning’s line-up promises a blend…
Bengaluru: A day after seven persons died after a compound wall of Bowring Hospital crashed on them in heavy rain on Wednesday evening, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah has ordered suspension of an executive engineer, tightened safety measures and ordered eviction of vendors from near unsteady and dangerous structures.The action follows a high-level review meeting at…
Bengaluru: In what is being perceived as an intent of “minority appeasement” after the Davangere South fiasco, where the government decided to not give a ticket to a minority candidate for the by-election, the cabinet on Thursday approved a Rs 600-crore plan for the community colonies across the state.The grant for development of minority colonies…
BENGALURU: A day after seven persons died when a compound wall of Bowring Hospital crashed on them following heavy rain on Wednesday, CM Siddaramaiah has ordered suspension of an executive engineer, tightened safety measures and ordered eviction of vendors from near unsteady and dangerous structures.The action follows a high-level review meeting at Vidhana Soudha Thursday…
Koppal: A first additional district and sessions court in Gangavathi Thursday sentenced six persons to death and fined them Rs 3 lakh each for the murder of BJP Yuva Morcha city unit president Venkatesh Kurubar alias JNN Venki last Oct. Six others were acquitted for lack of evidence. The court directed that the fine be…
