Bengaluru: The redevelopment and desilting of Ulsoor Lake, taken up nearly two decades after major restoration efforts, has hit a temporary pause after recent rain refilled some areas. It has slowed critical desilting work before the monsoon sets in.The nearly Rs 25-crore rejuvenation project, currently under way at the historic waterbody, includes desilting and civic…
Bengaluru: Section 132 of the Income-tax Act, which empowers tax authorities to conduct search and seizure operations, is person-centric and not premises-centric, the high court specified in its recent judgment.A division bench of Justices SG Pandit and KV Aravind allowed a writ appeal filed by the income-tax department and restored notices issued under Section 153C…
Bengaluru: Guarantees are back on the table, this time for Greater Bengaluru Authority elections. Mobility, waste management, water supply and civic infrastructure will remain hot-button issues amid suggestions to collapse five corporations into North and South divisions for better administrative control.Buoyed by the success of five guarantees embedded into its manifesto for the 2023 assembly…
Tension prevailed near Govt Mother and Child hospital in Chintamani, Chikkaballapur district, Monday after relatives of a 23-year-old woman, who died days after undergoing a tubectomy, refused to accept her body and demanded action against doctors concerned.Narmada, a resident of Batlahalli village in Chintamani taluk, was admitted to hospital on April 23 for the procedure….
Bengaluru: Two children of a daily-wager couple were charred to death in their makeshift shed at Narayanapura, Kottanur, Monday afternoon.The deceased are D Arjun and D Asha. Their parents, Durgappa and Savitri, were at work at an under-construction site when the incident took place around 1.30pm, police said.“The children’s grandmother was in the bathroom when…
Bengaluru: MVJ College of Engineering Monday said it hosted its flagship academic event, Project Expo 2026, on May 9, bringing together student innovators, industry experts and academicians under the theme, Youth and Innovation: Building Modern India.The event was held at Dr MV Jayaraman auditorium and featured projects from mechanical, computer science and electrical science streams.The…
Kolar: As temperatures continue to remain high, roadside stalls selling ice apples –locally known as taati ningu — have become a common sight across Kolar district with traders from neighbouring Tamil Nadu reporting brisk business.Dozens of traders travel from across the state border to sell the seasonal fruit, which is widely consumed during summer for…
Bengaluru: Nearly 22% of teachers’ posts in Karnataka government schools are vacant, a NITI Aayog report said, placing the state among those with a significant staffing gap in school education.Against the total sanctioned strength of 1,78,935 for 41,088 government primary schools, there’s a shortage of 38,163 teachers.Quoting from project approval board meetings of 2025, the…
Bengaluru: South Western Railway (SWR) has pushed the completion deadline for quadrupling of the rail corridor between Cantonment and Whitefield to March 2027. The project was sanctioned in 2018 and SWR maintains that 75% of the work is complete.The 19km project, approved at an estimated cost of Rs 492 crore, is intended to ease congestion…
Bengaluru: Bengaluru Integrated Rail Infrastructure Development Enterprises Ltd (Bi-RIDE) issued a work order to Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, for supply of 153 air-conditioned broad-gauge Metro-type coaches for Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP). Bi-RIDE is a subsidiary of K-RIDE (Rail Infrastructure Development Company Karnataka Ltd).The coaches directly procured from ICF Chennai will be deployed for…
