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Bengaluru: The Greater Bengaluru Authority’s ‘Safe Footpath’ drive continued Tuesday across all five city corporations, covering nearly 55km of roads in an effort to clear encroachments and improve pedestrian infrastructure.Meanwhile, the Joint Action Committee of Street Vendors, comprising five associations, has announced a protest at Freedom Park Wednesday against the eviction drive, alleging that vendors…

Bengaluru: The high court Tuesday dismissed the bail petition of Dr Mahendra Reddy, who is facing charges of murdering his wife Dr Kruthika Reddy by administering an overdose of anaesthesia.The case came to light in Oct last year, nearly six months after Kruthika’s death. A forensic report detected traces of an overdose of anaesthesia in…

VC, PE funds Use IPOs, post-listing deals to return capital after backing private companies for years Bengaluru: Early investors in India’s listed startups have sold shares worth nearly Rs 97,252 crore since 2021, underscoring how public markets have emerged as the primary exit route for venture capital, private equity and other private-market investors after years…

Bengaluru: More than a week after the alleged abuse at a daycare centre on its Bengaluru campus came to light, Capgemini Tuesday filed a complaint with HAL police, accusing daycare employees and others of acting in an unlawful manner, committing grave cognisable offences, and endangering the safety, privacy and dignity of minor children.In the complaint,…

Bengaluru: Less than a week after the rollout of SIR, hundreds of voters are anxious after they were unable to trace their or their family members’ details in the 2002 electoral rolls — the base document for this exercise.Although the Election Commission of India (ECI) has uploaded the 2002 rolls on its website to facilitate…

Madikeri: For 10 agonising minutes on Monday morning, Sai Charan and Ganesh Nayak stared directly at death. Stranded on a slippery rock in the middle of a roaring Mallalli falls, the two Bengaluru students could only watch as a sudden wall of water from an upstream check dam threatened to sweep them away.What began as…

Bengaluru: Lokayukta police Tuesday conducted simultaneous searches at seven locations across Bengaluru as part of an investigation into alleged criminal misconduct by senior govt officials accused of illegally allotting valuable land to private individuals.The searches were carried out in connection with a case registered by Lokayukta police in which then special deputy commissioner, Bengaluru, MK…

Bengaluru: Kannada Development Authority (KDA) has urged the higher education department to make four hours of Kannada teaching per week mandatory in all undergraduate and postgraduate colleges, warning that shrinking the space for language and literature in higher education is weakening critical thinking, cultural engagement, and philosophical enquiry.In a letter to the department, KDA chairperson…

Bengaluru: A high court division bench ruled that about five acres of land abutting Cantonment Railway Station in Vasanthnagar area belongs to the railways.The bench noted that in Sept 1997 itself, the city civil court held that railways was the lawful owner of the land, which is part of the 600 acres acquired during British…

Bengaluru: A 52-year-old private firm employee lost almost Rs 1.3 lakh to cyber fraudsters after falling victim to a fake house rental offer while searching for shared accommodation in the US before relocating with his daughter.According to the complaint, Suraj (name changed), and his daughter were looking for a shared rental house in the US…