The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today slammed the Karnataka government over its action plan on Bengaluru's Bellandur lake and formed a committee to inspect the lakes in the city.
A 35-year-old anthropologist, Atreyee Majumdar, who had been missing from Bengaluru for nearly a week, has been found. Her friends and colleagues had launched a massive search, coordinated through social media and a Google spreadsheet.
A 35-year-old anthropologist, Atreyee Majumdar, has been missing from Bengaluru for nearly a week and her friends and colleagues are desperately looking for her using a google spreadsheet to coordinate a massive search.
A Bengaluru-based surgeon was removed from an IndiGo flight on Monday after he allegedly complained about mosquitoes and abused the crew. The airline has said in tweets that Saurabh Rai was off-loaded for "unruly behavior" and after he used the word "hijack".
Edited by Abhimanyu Bose | Monday April 09, 2018, Bengaluru
Online shopping giant Flipkart has a new address. Not the virtual one but the old fashioned brick-and-mortar kind. The company has consolidated its clutch of offices spread across the Bengaluru at the Embassy Tech Village on the IT city's Outer Ring Road.
Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president on Sunday prophesied PM Narendra Modi-led BJP's defeat in 2019, claiming that the elections would deliver a "collapse" of the national coalition not "seen in many years". This would be possible, Mr Gandhi said, "simply" because opposition unity was becoming a reality.
Edited by Revathi Hariharan | Sunday April 08, 2018, New Delhi/Bengaluru
Congress president Rahul Gandhi began his 6th leg of campaigning in poll-bound Karnataka yesterday. The Congress leader resumed his Jana Aashirwada Yatre in Karnataka and traveled through Kolar and Chikabalapur.
Written by Maya Sharma | Tuesday April 03, 2018, BENGALURU
Once again, the presidents of both the Congress and the BJP are on the ground in Karnataka battling it out for the state. And the sniping between Rahul Gandhi and Amit Shah is reaching new heights, or depths.
D Roopa, the Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who uncovered the alleged special privileges enjoyed by VK Sasikala in a Bengaluru jail, has refused to accept the "Namma Bengaluru Award" because it comes with a high cash reward.
Written by Maya Sharma | Friday March 23, 2018, BENGALURU
Despite a delay in the start of counting of votes - the Rajya Sabha elections in Karnataka went as expected - with the Congress winning 3 and the BJP 1 seat. Counting had started late after there was a wait for the Election Commission to clear the process because the opposition Janata Dal (Secular) had asked for the election to be cancelled.
In good news for residents of Bengaluru, the Indian Railways has approved a project that will increase the capacity of suburban rail commuters four-fold by having a provision of two additional rail lines from Bengaluru Cantt to Whitefield. The cost of this project will be nearly Rupees 500 crore, and will be completed within three years.
Bengaluru is among the 10 cities in the world that might be on the verge of an imminent acute water crisis just as the one faced by Cape Town in South Africa, a CSE-assisted environment magazine today claimed.
House sparrows have become a rare sight in Bengaluru. These chirpy, small birds seem to have vanished from the bustling tech-city. On World Sparrow Day, we speak to Edwin Joseph, popularly known as Sparrow Man, who has transformed his home into a sanctuary for the little gregarious birds.
A SpiceJet aircraft on late Friday hit the runway lights after landing at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, leading to the runway being shut for nearly 40 minutes, an official said on Saturday.
The BJP's Karnataka unit Friday accused the Congress government in the state of "failure" on the law and order front and demanded that the Governor recommend imposition of President's rule in the state.
