Bengaluru: For seven years, residents of Jalahalli in north Bengaluru say they were forced to spend nearly Rs 80,000 every month from their own pocket to patch up a battered stretch of road, as repeated pleas to the Bangalore Development Authority went unanswered.What should have been a functional link instead turned into a nightmare for…
Bengaluru: A video of a rowdy-sheeter celebrating his birthday inside Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara, has gone viral after it was shared on WhatsApp and Instagram by his aides, prompting an inquiry by prison officials. ADGP (Prisons) B Dayananda has ordered a detailed investigation. Meanwhile, the prison jailer lodged a complaint with Parappana Agrahara police on…
Bengaluru: A 38-year-old woman was found hanging under suspicious circumstances in a hotel room in Agrahara Dasarahalli on Magadi Main Road Thursday night.The deceased was a homemaker and a resident of Kamakshipalya. She was married to a financier and a mother of two girls.According to police, she developed an extramarital affair with her married neighbour,…
Bengaluru: Namma Metro services on the Green Line were disrupted for 30 minutes Saturday afternoon after a man allegedly jumped onto the tracks in a suicide attempt. The incident occurred on platform no. 3 of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Majestic Interchange station.According to officials, Veeresh, about 40 years old, jumped in front of a moving train heading…
Chief minister Siddaramaiah Saturday dismissed BJP‘s charge that his govt diverted money under National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for its guarantee schemes, calling the allegation false and politically motivated.“We never used the fund for our guarantees. For BJP, the five guarantees have become like jaundice. They are restless because of our schemes and are even…
Bengaluru: The govt released Rs 36.6 crore to deputy commissioners to pay enumerators who collected data of Scheduled Castes (SCs) between May 5 and July 6 in the state. Around 65,000 teachers served as enumerators and conducted the door-to-door SC survey.Based on data collected from 101 castes from the SC community, the social welfare department…
As Diwali approaches, many are trying to dispose of things they don’t need any longer. Several NGOs and non-commercial platforms are there to helpFor Namrataa Kamath and her husband Shunil Ohrie, residents of a villa in Adarsh Palm Retreat in Bellandur, decluttering has been a daunting task. While getting ready to welcome twins in December,…
Bengaluru: When Hazel Korcherla returned to Bengaluru in 2018 after a long stint abroad, she didn’t find anyone except Army wives playing mahjong, the 18th-century Chinese game of strategy, skill and some luck. Seven years since, the game is quite popular in various social circuits of the city, thanks to a range of interesting coincidences…
Three boys, including a I PU student, drowned at Achepalli village in Bagepalli taluk of Chikkaballapur district around Friday noon. The victims are Harshavardhan, 17, Vishnuvardhan, 12, Nihal Raj, 10. The three went to the village tank for a swim as they were home due to Dasara holidays. Police said Vishnuvardhan and Nihal got stuck…
Bengaluru: Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO of Nutanix, says Indian enterprises are today among the fastest adopters of the company’s newer technologies. Nutanix is one of the global leaders in providing a hybrid multicloud computing environment, a unified platform for running applications and AI and managing data anywhere. The US-headquartered company’s India revenue rose by 33% in…
