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Bengaluru: The school education and literacy department has asked all schools to allocate time for physical education periods for the 2025-26 academic year. The move comes after KT Thippeswamy, then a member of Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights and currently its chairman, pointed out in a letter that multiple schools cancel physical…

Foreign tours for K’taka school heads if admission targets met (Representative image) BENGALURU: In a major push to boost enrolment in government schools across Karnataka, the Department of School Education and Literacy has rolled out a new incentive programme that offers foreign study tours to school heads and departmental officials who successfully achieve significant gains…

Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar BENGALURU: Deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar Wednesday indicated he may step down as Karnataka Congress president, but assured party workers that he would remain “part of the party’s senior leadership”.Speaking at an event marking former prime minister Indira Gandhi’s birth anniversary, Shivakumar told party members, “Whether I’m around or not…

7cr from cash van on Dairy Circle flyover BENGALURU: In one of the well-scripted daring daylight dacoities in Bengaluru, five to six miscreants posing as RBI officials looted Rs 7.1 crore from an armoured cash van from a busy flyover in south Bengaluru on Wednesday afternoon.The incident took place between 12.30pm and 1pm when the…

Bengaluru/Koppal: With rice growers in Kalyana Karnataka hit by the govt’s decision to stop release of water from Tungabhadra dam for a second crop, JD(S) has moved to take up their cause and is preparing a region-wide agitation.Farmers in the Tungabhadra basin, often called ‘the rice bowl of Karnataka’, have already suffered an estimated 12.5…

Bengaluru: Britain’s University of Liverpool will start operations at its Bengaluru campus at Alembic City, near Whitefield, next year.The university, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in computer science, business management, accounting and finance, biomedical sciences, and game design, has started inviting applications from students.“The Bengaluru campus will bring Liverpool’s world-class academic and research excellence…

Bengaluru/New Delhi: Chief minister Siddaramaiah Wednesday, while marking the golden jubilee of the LG Havanur Commission which laid the foundation for Karnataka’s social justice framework in the 1970s, called for reservation to be extended to the private sector. At the event in Bengaluru, Siddaramaiah said: “We already have political reservation in local bodies but that…

Bengaluru: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is expected to soon file a chargesheet in the June 4 stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium, which claimed 11 lives.According to police sources, The 2000-page chargesheet will be submitted in a week.Investigators relied on hundreds of eyewitness accounts, CCTV footage and statements of the injured to establish the sequence…

Bengaluru: Publishing the final ward-delimitation report for Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), the committee realigned boundaries across all five city corporations and fixed the total number of wards at 369, revising upwards from the earlier proposed 398.Officials confirmed that the West City Corporation gained an additional ward, taking its tally from 111 to 112, while ward…