KJ George, minister for tourism visits Padubidri Beach Monday Udupi: Tourism minister KJ George Monday announced the immediate release of Rs 50 lakh to install insulated cables along the Padubidri Beach road to tackle frequent power disruptions caused by corrosion and snapping of electrical wires due to high salt content in coastal air.Inspecting the beach,…
Prasad Bidappa, city-based fashion stylist, choreographer and image consultant Prasad Bidappa, city-based fashion stylist, choreographer and image consultant who has shaped India’s fashion industry for over four decades, opens to TOI on his bests of Bengaluru. Bidapa, an NID alumnus who champions traditional Indian textile revival, has discovered and mentored some of India’s leading models…
A ready-to-eat protein bar, developed by Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre using Kalaburagi’s GI-tagged tur dal, as part of the Kalyana Karnataka Bio-Economy Mission. Bengaluru: From the humble dal bowl to the gym bag, Karnataka’s iconic tur dal is making an unlikely transition. Kalaburagi’s GI-tagged dal, traditionally cooked as dal and sambar, is now being reinvented as…
Ayu Lodha started rescuing injured dogs and cats when she was barely 16. Later, she started caring for birds too, and took in an exotic bird, a cockatiel, after a rescue but it didn’t survive. “I had little experience in avian care then. It made me realise how vulnerable exotic bird species are, and yet…
Bengaluru: A class 10 student from Dakshina Kannada was diagnosed with severe thalassemia when he was just five months old. Years of regular transfusions eventually caused severe iron overload, affecting his heart and liver, making a transplant particularly high risk.His younger sister was found to be a matched donor, and after intensive preparation and counselling…
Four family members died instantly when their car hit a stone culvert near Doddakari village BENGALURU: Four members of a family were killed and three others injured after the Innova car they were travelling in rammed into a stone culvert near Doddakari village, under Bethamangala police limits in KGF taluk, on Monday morning.The accident took…
A software engineer died and his friend was injured after a speeding BMW bike hit their car BENGALURU: A 25-year-old software engineer was killed and another person was injured after a BMW RR sports bike rammed into their Swift Dzire car near Chikkasanne Gate on NH-44 late Saturday night.The deceased has been identified as Naveen…
(Representative image) Karnataka is grappling with a staggering 50% downturn in agricultural and horticultural yields BENGALURU: With an underwhelming monsoon showing no signs of revival and rain deficit in the state set to widen in coming weeks, Karnataka is likely to lose about 50% of its agriculture and horticulture harvest.Karnataka has declared 102 of its…
Bengaluru: The ongoing food safety crackdown has uncovered multiple violations at Hockey Club in Shanthinagar, where officials have found expired beverages, faulty labelling, unhygienic kitchen conditions and pest infestation.Officials from the department of food safety and drug administration inspected the club’s kitchen, food preparation and storage areas Saturday. They seized 40 bottles of expired soft…
Participants at the Save Bengaluru roundtable Bengaluru: The govt’s plan to push the city’s infrastructure projects worth over Rs 1.5 lakh crore amounts to spending more than three times the state’s annual health and education budgets on projects that would primarily benefit private car users, CIVIC Bangalore trustee Kathyayini Chamaraj said Sunday.She criticised the govt…
