Bengaluru: Line-checking officials of Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) imposed penalties totalling Rs 6.3 lakh on passengers travelling without tickets on city buses in Dec. During the month, inspection squads checked over 18,400 bus trips and detected 2,801 passengers without valid tickets. Cases were also registered against 1,748 conductors for various lapses.Officials additionally fined 250…
Bengaluru: Chikkaballapura police arrested expelled Congress functionary Rajiv Gowda after a 13-day search in connection with allegedly abusing and threatening a woman civic official in Shidlagatta.Gowda, who unsuccessfully contested the last assembly elections on a Congress ticket, is accused of verbally abusing Amrutha Gowda, commissioner of Sidlagatta city municipal council, over the removal of a…
Bengaluru: Defying years of conventional trends, the annual Republic Day flower show at Lalbagh Botanical Garden bloomed into an unprecedented spectacle, drawing record crowds and registering the highest revenue for a Jan edition. The rare confluence of a long Republic Day weekend, cool and pleasant weather and a visually striking theme turned the show into…
Bengaluru is set for a comfortable late-January day on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, featuring partly cloudy skies, warm temperatures ranging from 18°C to 28.5°C, and virtually no chance of rain.Yesterday’s air quality registered as “good” by India’s AQI scale, though the US AQI indicated lingering particle pollution that sensitive individuals might notice.The week ahead, from…
Bengaluru: The state govt has constituted a new empowered panel under the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) to oversee development works in the city and ensure effective implementation of projects undertaken by the five newly formed municipal corporations. However, the move has raised questions about possible infringement on the autonomy of the new civic bodies.The panel…
Bengaluru: The first independent budgets submitted by four of the five new city corporations of Bengaluru to the state govt see the civic bodies mapping their financial needs and prioritising development.In their budgets submitted to the state’s finance commissioner, the Bengaluru Central city corporation sought a grant of Rs 2,047 crore, followed by East’s Rs…
Bengaluru: To promote cycling as a last-mile option to Metro stations, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) has decided to offer free bicycle parking at nine stations across the city — two on the Purple Line, three on Green Line, and four on the newly commissioned Yellow Line.The waiver was announced through a recent tender…
Bengaluru: Train services on the KR Pura–Whitefield corridor were disrupted Monday after the SMVT–Tatanagar Superfast Express hit a BMTC bus that reversed too close to the railway track near Hoodi, barely minutes after the vehicle left Sadaramangala depot. The bus conductor suffered minor injuries.The incident occurred around 9.15am when the bus (KA 57 6000), attached…
BENGALURU: What a passer-by reported as a road crash turned out to be bone-chilling act of murder on Ananthnagar Road in Electronics City late Sunday evening. The deceased, Prashanth M, 33, and accused, Roshan Hegde, 36, were friends, said police. Roshan works as a software engineer with a firm in Domlur. The murder came to…
Bengaluru: More than 14 years after it opened, Sampige Road Metro station is set to host retail outlets, with Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) Sunday inviting tenders to open commercial spaces at the station and six others.The commercial expansion will largely cover Green Line stations at Madavara, Yeswantpur, KR Market, and Banashankari, as well…
