Karnataka

Bengaluru: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), the umbrella university for courses in health sciences, has decided to approach the information and broadcasting ministry with a request to make it mandatory to screen short anti-drug menace videos in cinema halls before film screenings.“Currently, advertisements and awareness videos against tobacco usage are played before screening…

Bengaluru: Four Ayyappa devotees, including a 7-year-old girl, were killed and seven injured when the vehicle they were travelling in rammed a parked truck on Bengaluru-Pune national highway at Kora in Tumakuru district early Friday.The devotees, who belong to Kukkanur village in Koppal, north Karnataka, were returning home from Sabarimala when the accident occurred at…

Bengaluru: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to flag off India’s first Vande Bharat Sleeper service between Howrah and Guwahati later this month, Bengaluru will also get three new long-distance trains to West Bengal, including an Amrit Bharat Express to Alipurduar.This will be the second Amrit Bharat Express to Bengaluru after the one connecting to…

Bengaluru: The govt has directed Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) to modify its recently introduced parking and pick-up regulations at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), asking that vehicles be allowed to come up to the arrival gates to reduce hardship for passengers.The decision was taken on Friday following a visit by chief secretary Shalini Rajneesh, after…

Bengaluru: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a joint director of Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bengaluru, and an executive of a private firm after they were allegedly transacting a bribe of Rs 9.5 lakh.The arrests followed the registration of an FIR on Jan 8 against the CPRI official and others for allegedly taking bribes…

Bengaluru: A city commercial court has dismissed Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Limited’s plea to restrain the state-owned K-RIDE from invoking or encashing bank guarantees given under the contracts pertaining to certain infrastructure projects of the Bengaluru Suburban Railway Project (BSRP), between Heelalige and Rajanukunte of Corridor-4.L&T furnished a mobilisation bank guarantee worth Rs 28.6 crore…

Karnataka High Court (File Photo) BENGALURU: Karnataka high court has quashed an FIR filed by a woman against her husband, parents-in-law and brother-in-law under dowry harassment provisions, observing “indiscriminate roping in” of in-laws despite their residence in India while the marital life largely lived abroad was disquieting.Also, the HC said the wife’s complaint was most…

Bengaluru: Bangalore International Airport Ltd’s decision to reduce the number of bus bays at Terminal 1 (T1) of Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) has forced Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) to reconsider its plan to expand the popular Vayu Vajra airport bus service.BMTC had proposed adding 50 more buses on new airport routes, but officials now…

Bengaluru: A 23-year-old dental student at a private college in Bommasandra, Anekal, was found dead at her Chandapura residence early Friday morning.B Yeshasvini, a third-year BDA student, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her bedroom by her mother, Parimala. Yeshasvini’s death note in Kannada, which was recovered from the room, read: “I am…

Bengaluru: Breaking the mould of traditional outreach, Dr Manmohan Singh Bengaluru City University (BCU) has, for the first time, connected directly with pre-university colleges to reach out to prospective students.In a unique initiative, the state-run university brought together principals of over 800 PU colleges and 200 affiliated colleges in two educational districts — Bengaluru North…