BENGALURU: A Rs 450-crore road project on Bengaluru’s Outer Ring Road has run into opposition from the companies that employ lakhs of people along the busy corridor, with the industry body asking authorities to put the work on hold until the Namma Metro Blue Line becomes operational.The Outer Ring Road Companies’ Association (ORRCA) has objected…
Entrepreneur Bala Panneerselvam highlighted Bengaluru’s traffic issues impacting work BENGALURU: Entrepreneur Bala Panneerselvam’s photo of his near-empty 10.15 am office floor has struck a chord online, with the founder arguing that Bengaluru’s gridlock is no longer just a commute problem — it’s wrecking people’s ability to function at work.Panneerselvam, who runs Applied AI Studio and…
Pradeep Menon, country head and MD at Schwab India. Bengaluru: US investment services firm Charles Schwab is accelerating its India playbook, scaling up its Hyderabad global capability centre (GCC) to around 500 employees by the end of this year and 2,000 by 2027-end, with a strong focus on engineering capabilities.The centre’s initial mandate spans technology…
Samples of the seized medicines have been sent for laboratory testing to verify their chemical composition, sterility and potency. BENGALURU: The fake drug racket busted near Bidadi on Tuesday could be part of a nationwide network, with spurious medicines allegedly sourced from Himachal Pradesh, Telangana and other states, relabelled with multinational brand names and supplied…
Kumar Chander, CEO of Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting BengaluruWipro Consumer Care & Lighting is acquiring Dermatouch, marking its entry into India’s premium skincare market as it looks to tap growing consumer demand for science-backed and dermatologist-recommended products.The deal is Wipro Consumer Care’s 18th acquisition globally and its third in the past month. The company…
Bengaluru: AI-based lending technology platform Rezolv has raised $12.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Norwest, with participation from Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, and existing investor 3one4 Capital.Founded in 2024 by Karan Mehta and Sonali Jindal, who earlier co-founded Kissht, Rezolv provides banks and non-bank lenders with software for debt…
Bengaluru: Manipal Health Enterprises has signed an agreement with Kindorama Healthcare to acquire Kinder Women’s Hospital in Bengaluru’s Whitefield for Rs 130 crore in an all-cash deal.The transaction involves the acquisition of the hospital’s operations and assets, and does not include the purchase of shares in Kindorama Healthcare.Commissioned in 2022, Kinder Women’s Hospital has 100…
Police identified the accused as A Harini, 26 BENGALURU: The deaths of a 36-year-old man and his four-year-old son at their home in Chikkabanavara, Bengaluru, are being investigated as a double murder, with police arresting the man’s wife and her alleged boyfriend.Police identified the accused as A Harini, 26, and Vinay Kumar, a factory worker….
BJP’s Arvind Bellad speaks during the monsoon session of the Karnataka legislative assembly at Vidhana Soudha Bengaluru: The govt’s move to get the assembly to unanimously condemn the “shuddhikaran” of the Ramlila Maidan stage in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a rally there on Aug 8, collapsed Tuesday after the BJP-JD(S) opposition…
Legislative council chairman Saleem Ahmed with newly-elected deputy, Umashree Bengaluru: The govt Tuesday filled both vacant deputy presiding posts in the legislature, with former minister Mankal Vaidya being elected deputy speaker of the assembly and Umashree unanimously being chosen deputy chairperson of the council.Vaidya, MLA from Bhatkal, was elected unopposed through a voice vote after…
