Mandala Cultural Centre is celebrating Dhaatu Navaratra Mahotsava 2025 with events like Kolata and puppet shows Mandala Cultural Centre, located on Kanakapura Road near Silk Institute Metro Station, is celebrating Dhaatu Navaratra Mahotsava 2025 from 22 September to 2 October, attracting visitors from across the city.The inclusion of a Kolata evening on Sept 26 added…
One of the survivors Sai Kiran In one of the intriguing medical mysteries, Sai Kiran, a 17-year-old from Telangana’s Rajanna Sircilla district, has survived rabies and made a significant recovery. He is now a Class IX student.Sai was bitten by a dog near his home on his way back from school in 2018. He was…
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court Friday allowed the central govt to issue necessary travel documents, enabling an overstaying Russian woman Nina Kutina and her minor daughters to return to Russia. The woman and her children were found living in a cave near Gokarna, Uttara Kannada district.Justice BM Shyam Prasad delivered the verdict, disposing of a petition…
BENGALURU: Eminent Kannada writer SL Bhyrappa, who brought intellectual probity into novels adding new dimensions to his characters, passed away following cardiac arrest at 2.38pm Wednesday at a hospital in Bengaluru. He was 94.Family sources said Bhyrappa collapsed during his morning walk in Mysuru a couple of months ago. Later, he was brought to a…
Bengaluru: In a post-midnight operation on Thursday, scores of apartment residents had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in a wooden handicraft manufacturing unit in Malleswaram. No casualties were reported, but the fire caused damage to the adjacent apartment buildings.The incident occurred at Adiga Creations Wooden Handicrafts store and manufacturing unit on Pipeline…
Bengaluru: A new study on prescription of antibiotics has revealed something surprising: The biggest reason doctors prescribe unnecessary antibiotics for children with diarrhoea isn’t because they don’t know better, it is because they think parents expect “strong medicines”.The study, titled ‘Investigating the know-do gap in antibiotics prescribing: Experimental evidence from India,’ published in Science Advances,…
Bengaluru: Students of around 430 govt first-grade colleges — facing a shortage of guest faculty — are in panic mode. With exams fast approaching, full-fledged classes are yet to start in many colleges. A meeting between minister of higher education MC Sudhakar and law minister HK Patil on the issue was inconclusive Friday.In 2018, University…
Bengaluru: In a case that initially stunned the city, a class 9 student had accused her mother of sexually harassing and assaulting her in the guise of “teaching” her about post-marital intimacy. But in a dramatic twist, the girl has told a juvenile court that there was no sexual misconduct and that she was only…
Bengaluru: A five-storey structure raised illegally on 15×50 ft (750sqft) site — which is an advertisement for multiple building law violations, and slapped with a stop-work order — tilted dangerously to its right side on Friday, sending a wave of panic in the area packed with tightly-built residential structures in Venkatapura, Koramangala I Block.Only two-storey…
Bengaluru: Despite Karnataka generating surplus power — nearly 60–70% of it from renewable sources — several parts of Bengaluru are grappling with day-long power cuts, especially on weekends over the past two months.Officials from the energy department clarified these outages are not “load shedding,” but part of a long-pending maintenance drive by Karnataka Power Transmission…
