Karnataka

Bengaluru: Bangalore Development Authority should no longer be synonymous with “business” and “brokers” and must undergo a professional makeover to regain public trust, deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar said Tuesday.At a training workshop for BDA employees on ‘Administrative reforms and public grievance redressal’, held ahead of the agency’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Shivakumar urged staff to…

Bengaluru: Dhakshineswar Suresh’s forte is his booming serve. An undergraduate student at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, United States, the 25-year-old Indian oils his service motion daily, sending down 50-100 thunderbolts during training sessions.It is that discipline that helped this lanky 6 ft 5′ player from Tamil Nadu to develop his serve into the…

Bengaluru: A gang of four, including two employees of a builder, were arrested in connection with the theft of gold ornaments, silver articles and cash from the residence of the builder in Vaderahalli, Hesaraghatta Main Road.The two arrested accused, car driver Narendra, 28, from Doddaballapur and domestic help Manjeet Ram, 28, from Darbhanga in Bihar,…

Bengaluru: A 36-year-old pyrotechnician has accused a customer of molesting her on New Year’s Eve during her performance at a pub on Old Airport Road off Indiranagar. She also alleged that the establishment’s staff and bouncers were slow to respond to the incident.The incident occurred on the second floor of the pub around 10.15pm. The…

Bengaluru: A 26-year-old homemaker and her twin sons were found dead inside the sump of their rented house in Singanahalli Colony, Tumakuru, Tuesday evening. The victims are S Vijayalakshmi and her sons S Chetan and S Chaitanya, both aged 5 years.Police suspect Vijayalakshmi pushed her sons into the sump before jumping in. The tragedy came…

Bengaluru: The health and family welfare department has decided on “rationalisation” of mother and child health (MCH) specialists, which will trigger a large-scale downgrading of community health centres (CHCs) in Karnataka.In an interview with TOI, health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao explained the goal of the move, what its outcome would be, and why people need…

Bengaluru: Hundreds of birds are injured each year by manja—the banned glass-and nylon-coated kite string—during the traditional kite-flying season around Sankranti, as a festive custom turns into a recurring wildlife crisis.Rescue data, accessed by TOI from the city’s PfA Wildlife Hospital, highlights the issue as a recurring problem that peaks between Jan and April. Manja-related…

Bengaluru: A 24-year-old woman, her male friend and two of his friends were allegedly assaulted by his neighbours in Kammanahalli, east Bengaluru, in the early hours of Sunday.The incident occurred between 3am and 3.30am after the woman, who works at a restaurant in Indiranagar, went to visit her friend Kumsuto Zhimoni, a restaurant employee living…

Bengaluru: Now that he is set to go past D Devaraj Urs’ record as the longest-serving chief minister, Siddaramaiah has set his sights on completing 1,000 days in office in mid-Feb and presenting a record 17th budget soon after, leaving his deputy DK Shivakumar waiting in the wings amid the absence of a firm signal…