Bengaluru

A satyagraha against the GST taxation of handmade products is underway in Bengaluru. Veteran theatre personality, Prasanna, has been on a hunger strike since October 14, urging the Centre to rescind the GST on all handmade products in the country.

In Bengaluru, loud crackers may bring your house down, literally, warns a top official of the city as India prepares to celebrate the Diwali festival. Record rain in the city - more than in the last 115 years with 1400 mm in two months compared to an annual average of 900 mm has left buildings weakened. Bengaluru civic chief Manjunath Prasad says the sound of very loud crackers could cause further damage to houses.

In the murder of senior journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru last month, the police are on the lookout for the suspect who is seen riding what appears to be a Bajaj Pulsar bike, is in a white shirt and dark trousers, his face masked by his helmet and his hands gloved.

At least six persons were killed and some are feared trapped after a two-storeyed building collapsed due to a suspected LPG cylinder blast near Ejipura in Bengaluru today, the police said.

A 16-year-old girl drowned in an overflowing drain today, taking the death toll from rain-related incidents in the city to 10. The incident happened at Krishnappa Garden in the city.

Bengaluru has been battered by heavy showers over the last few weeks. And just days after four people lost their lives in pothole-related accidents, five people died on Friday in rain-related incidents in the city.

The Karnataka Police special Investigation team probing the Bengaluru journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder has today released sketches of the suspected killers for "public help". The probe team has also released a video of the suspects that they obtained during the investigation.

A day after Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah sounded an emergency and asked for over 15,000 potholes on Bengaluru's scarred roads to be fixed within 15 days, another woman died on Tuesday when she was flung from a scooter and crushed by a lorry near Devanahalli in the Karnataka capital. Four people have died since last week in Bengaluru in accidents caused by potholes.

A 28-year-old techie working with software major Accenture was killed in a Bengaluru suburb in a case of road rage, the police said after arresting the 24-year-old man they say, killed him because their two-wheelers had scraped against each other.

A 28-year-old techie working with software major Accenture was killed in a Bengaluru suburb early on Monday morning while he was on his way to meet a woman friend.

At Bannerghatta zoological park, near Bangalore, India, keepers feed the white tigers around 5 p.m., after the last safari vehicle has turned off its engine and all the tourists are gone.

A techie of global software major Accenture was found murdered in Bengaluru's south-east suburb under mysterious circumstances, sthe police said on Monday.

Two white tigers in Bannerghatta National Park in Bengaluru mauled a keeper to death on Saturday when he entered their den to feed them, an official said.

People passionate about the environment gathered in Bengaluru for the roundglass Samsara Festival, a week-long environmental summit that concluded today.

A couple was run over by a bus when they fell off the scooty they were travelling after it hit a big pothole in Bengaluru. Their granddaughter who was also on the scooty survived with bruises, police said