Karnataka

Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP hit back at Lok Sabha opposition leader Rahul Gandhi Friday, insisting irregularities in electoral rolls were rampant even in assembly segments won by senior Congress functionaries including Varuna, the constituency represented by chief minister Siddaramaiah.Aravind Limbavali, former Mahadevapura MLA, at a press conference, said: “We must thank Rahul Gandhi for raising this…

Bengaluru: Already under political pressure, the govt is now facing mounting legal pressure from Karnataka State Election Commission (SEC) to conduct long-pending zilla (ZP) and taluk panchayat (TP) elections by the end of this year.With the elections overdue since May 2021, SEC has stepped up its legal fight even as rural development and panchayat raj…

Bengaluru: The Yellow Line of Namma Metro, linking RV Road to Bommasandra, is emerging not only as a key transport link through the city’s IT corridor but also as a showcase of corporate-backed infrastructure. Through an innovative financing scheme by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL), major companies have directly funded the construction of stations,…

Bengaluru: Police started investigation after a video, which went viral on social media, showed a toll booth staffer at Electronics City flyover sustaining injuries when he clung to a mini-goods truck that did not pay toll.Cops are yet to confirm the identity of the staffer. Toll charges for four wheelers on the 10-km flyover are…

Faraz Khan, a Mumbai-based actor and director, believes that “theatre should provoke, not pacify.” With his upcoming shows in Bengaluru, he brings together satire and social commentary, reviving his long-running play The Open Couple and presenting a new reading of Ajay Krishnan’s Butter and Mashed Banana, which explores censorship and identity. Excerpts from a conversation:…

BENGALURU: Placements at engineering colleges across Karnataka have seen a sharp decline – particularly tier-2 and tier-3 institutions – for the 2024-25 graduating batch, with a sluggish start reported for the 2025-26 cohort. A significant drop in mass hirings by large firms has left placement cells struggling even in high-demand disciplines like computer science. “Companies…

Bengaluru: The govt faces a major hurdle in implementing recommendations of the Justice HN Nagamohan Das Commission on internal reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs), as concerns grow over possible duplication of claims by nearly five lakh individuals.The commission, which submitted a 1,766-page report on Monday to the govt, has proposed 1% reservation for 4,75,954 individuals…

Bengaluru: OpenAI has begun rolling out its long-awaited new model, GPT-5. The headline-grabbing feature is that it’s free for all users, though with strict usage limits for the free tier. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, told reporters virtually in a press conference ahead of the worldwide launch of the new model that he thinks people…

Bengaluru: As expected, the cabinet, under immense pressure from sections of the Scheduled Caste community,Thursday deferred a decision on implementing internal reservation and announced a special cabinet meeting on Aug 16 to take a final call on the issue.The move comes days after the Justice HN Nagamohan Das Commission submitted its 1,766-page report recommending reclassification…

Bengaluru: A 20-year-old girl from the Central Business District (CBD) area had the shock of her lifetime when she found her private videos uploaded on social media platforms. The videos she shared with a friend had also surfaced on pornographic websites, giving her a traumatic time.Clara (name changed), a graduation student at a private college,…