Bengaluru: In Kambipura, on the city’s southwestern edge near Kumbalgodu, residents say mornings often begin not with fresh air but with the smell of burning waste and thick black smoke drifting into homes.What was once seen as a quieter, greener fringe of the city is now, according to residents, facing chronic pollution. Complaints have now…
Munirabad (Koppal): Engineers completed installation of new crest gates at Tungabhadra Dam late Saturday, marking a major milestone which is expected to significantly enhance water storage capacity. The reservoir can now irrigate up to 15 lakh acres of farmland. Design and execution of work have surpassed expectations, and the final stage — installation of the…
Bengaluru: With an eye on the 2028 assembly polls, public works minister Satish Jarkiholi has intensified his political engagements over the past year, increasingly positioning himself as an internal troubleshooter during moments of crisis within Congress. He has frequently held consultations with ministers and senior functionaries, signalling a more interventionist role in party affairs. In…
Bengaluru: The BJP Saturday came down heavily on the Congress govt for reducing overall Scheduled Caste (SC) reservation from 17% to 15% and lowered allocations to key sub-categories, terming the revised internal quota formula “unjust to several communities.“On Friday, the cabinet led by chief minister Siddaramaiah approved internal distribution within the 15% SC quota, allocating…
Bengaluru: The highly anticipated Vande Bharat sleeper between KSR Bengaluru and CSMT Mumbai will hit the tracks by August. Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in an exclusive interaction with TOI on Saturday confirmed that the train will operate via Solapur and Kalaburagi.For more than a decade, Udyaan Express has been the only train to Mumbai, taking…
Bengaluru: The Pan IIT Alumni India Association, in collaboration with Karnataka govt, will organise the Pan-IIT Bengaluru Summit 2026 in the city on May 16. The summit will be held on the theme ‘technology sovereignty’, principal secretary, e-governance department, Pankaj Kumar Pandey said.Pan IIT president Prabhat Kumar said the summit will feature high-level plenary sessions,…
Bengaluru: As chief minister Siddaramaiah nears three years in office on May 10, deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar and his brother DK Suresh have stepped up lobbying in New Delhi, meeting senior Congress functionaries and fuelling speculation over a possible CM change in Karnataka.The two met AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge, senior functionaries KC Venugopal and…
Bengaluru: After completing a 10-day intensive surveillance and containment operation following the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) at the state poultry rearing training centre in Mathkuru village, Hesaraghatta, Karnataka health department Saturday confirmed that no human cases of the infection have been detected so far.The outbreak, first identified on April 14, prompted…
Bengaluru: Spanish artist Jaume Plensa’s 16ft sculpture titled ‘Bengaluru’s Soul’ at Terminal 2 of Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) became one of the most Instagrammable spots within minutes of being unveiled Saturday evening, offering travellers a “wow” moment.Plensa’s monumental work featuring interlaced ideograms of alphabets in Kannada, Arabic, Chinese, Tamil, Armenian, Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi,…
Bengaluru: A small, dissolving tube developed in a Bengaluru lab is moving a step closer to hospital use, offering a way to avoid repeat procedures after major abdominal surgeries.The device, called the “Asthana Stent”, is the result of a collaboration between liver transplant surgeon Sonal Asthana of Aster CMI Hospital and researchers led by Kaushik…
