Bengaluru: Commuters using both BMTC buses and Namma Metro trains can now travel with a single National Common Mobility Card (NCMC), ending a long wait for seamless card-based travel across the city’s two major public transport systems.Chief minister DK Shivakumar launched the NCMC facility for BMTC buses at Vidhana Soudha Thursday as part of the…
Bengaluru: In a harrowing scene inside a room at a star hotel near Kempegowda International Airport, a father accused of strangling his two young daughters broke down, weeping uncontrollably and rolling on the floor during police reconstruction of the crime scene.SG Imran, a 40-year-old manager at a local cab company and resident of Bilalnagar, allegedly…
Bengaluru: A city-based man who allegedly flew to Vizag and returned by road with ganja has been arrested by Gandepalli police in Andhra Pradesh. Around 10kg of ganja, allegedly meant for sale in Lingarajpuram and adjoining areas of east Bengaluru, was seized.The arrested man has been identified as 26-year-old Abdul Karim. AP police said Karim…
Bengaluru: A city court has sentenced a 49-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 1 lakh for possessing and peddling opium. K Bhagirath Devasi of Devanahalli was caught with more than 2kg of the drug in Girinagar in July 2021.Acting on specific information that Devasi would arrive on his motorcycle…
Bengaluru: Taking serious cognisance of widespread reports alleging major irregularities and poor quality in the distribution of shoes to govt schoolchildren across the state, Upalokayukta Justice KN Phanindra has initiated a suo motu case.The anti-corruption watchdog ordered a probe targeting key education department officials across 15 districts. Lokayukta formally registered cases against concerned deputy directors…
Chief minister DK Shivakumar, former CM Siddaramaiah and DCM G Parameshwara at Vidhana Soudha Bengaluru: Former chief minister and Congress Working Committee member Siddaramaiah Thursday gave the DK Shivakumar-led govt a positive assessment of its first 100 days, but urged it to fulfil remaining poll promises, continue the five guarantees and address drought during the…
BJP state president BY Vijayendra and party members offer prayers at Sri Kanaka Durga temple in Ballari Ballari: Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra Thursday branded DK Shivakumar a “real estate chief minister”, using Shivakumar’s recent description of himself as “90% businessman and 10% politician” to launch a sharp attack on the govt at the culmination…
Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar Bengaluru: Instances of name mismatch in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls continue to create waves of confusion among VIP families. Days after Bharat Ratna CNR Rao and actor Shivarajkumar figured in the verification exercise, it’s the turn of the Karnataka chief minister’s mother and Infosys co-founder Nandan…
Bengaluru: Drawing flak from environmentalists and park lovers over the proposed tunnel road project that cuts through Lalbagh, the Karnataka govt is contemplating changing the alignment to avoid any damage to the three-billion-year-old Peninsular Gneiss.The issue came up for discussion during Greater Bengaluru Authority’s second meeting presided by CM DK Shivakumar and Bengaluru development minister…
Bengaluru: Karnataka is betting big on becoming India’s aerospace manufacturing hub, but the govt’s new Aerospace Policy 2026-31 comes with a catch — only the first three investors in each of the seven proposed clusters will get the land subsidy on offer.However, the govt has defended the cluster-based approach, saying it will “promote balanced regional…
