BENGALURU: The three-hour load-shedding schedule announced by Bescom could mean many more hours of darkness in reality. On Friday, load-shedding in at least two localities of the city went beyond the announced hours. The power utility on Thursday announced three hours of daily load-shedding in th

MANGALURU: Tata Consultancy Services and the department of IT, BT, science and technology, government of Karnataka will organize the Rural IT Quiz programme across six states in India for school students from class VIII to XII. The Rural IT Quiz aims to enhance IT awareness and underlines the imp

BENGALURU: Commuters take note. BMTC, KSRTC buses and autorickshaws will stay off the roads on Wednesday as they join the nationwide strike against hefty penalties proposed against drivers in the National Road Safety bill. Employees' pick-and-drop service will also be hit as BMTC caters to many t

BENGALURU/ALAPPUZHA: The Congress high command is said to have given its nod to chief minister Siddaramaiah to join hands with JD(S) to form the BBMP council. All that's awaited now is a go ahead from JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda. JD(S) has convened a legislators' meeting in Bengaluru on September

The Hennur police have detained three persons after they allegedly attacked an African student identified as Pisse Hotto. According to the police, Pisse Hotto stopped by a shop in Hennur to buy some cigarettes, but the shopkeeper said that there was no stock. However, when he was leaving, he n

MANGALURU: A youth lost Rs 20 lakh after being duped by an SMS alert alleging that he won a lottery. The victim is a resident of Kadaba in Puttur taluk, and works in Kolar. In November 2014, he received an SMS alert stating he has won a bumper prize of Rs 1 crore through Punjab Lottery Scheme. Ho

BENGALURU: Chain-snatchers took advantage of the festival rush and struck in three places within 24 hours. At 10pm Wednesday, Haslekha, 31, was speaking to a few friends outside the Basaveshwara Sugnana Kalyana Mantapa, Vijaynagar, west Bengaluru, when two men on a black Pulsar grabbed her 48-gm

Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday urged local and international investors to put their money on the Smart City Mission, assuring them that it was a safe bet. Mr. Naidu unveiled a list of 98 cities with Uttar Pradesh taking the largest share of developing 13 smart cities follow

MANGALURU: Puffing away in public spaces could henceforth invite a fine of Rs 1,000 or a jail-term of one year under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003. It is the role and res

In the end, it turned out to be a return of the BJP and an embarrassment for the ruling Congress and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The BJP won 100 of the 198 seats, a clear majority, but down from 112 in 2010, in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council while the Congress improved its ta

In an act of moral policing, a Muslim man was allegedly stripped, tied to electric pole and thrashed by hindu rightwingactivists in Mangalore for travelling with agirl hailing from a different religion. According to reports, when the 29-year-old man was going in a car with his Hindu colleague, fe

Veteran Congress leader and MLA of Deodurg constituency in Raichur district, Karnataka, A Venkatesh Naik (79) died in a rail accident near Penugonda in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, at about 2.30 am on Monday. The accident occurred when Bangalore-Nanded Express (Train No: 16594) in which Mr

BENGALURU: It was 2.30am when the first AC coach of Bengaluru-Nanded express was rammed by a granite loaded lorry that derailed four coaches of the train. The incident happened between Rangepalli and Penukonda stations in Andhra Pradesh. One of the five dead are sitting MLA A Venkatesh Naik from

BENGALURU: In localities of wards in Dasarahalli, a greater Bengaluru constituency, gone are the days wherein party workers used to sit with multiple sheets of electoral rolls. Being at help desk, their job is to help voters in identifying polling room number and distribute voter slips. Smartphon

This time, the State Election Commis sion will get hour ly updates on poll progress in each of the 6,759 booths set up for Saturday's BBMP election, thanks to a new mobile platform launched by the civic body . The platform, linking the BBMP's central server and cellphones of polling officers, will k

Metro Man E Sreedharan is right, say sources in the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation. There is slackening of pace in implementation of this multi-crore project, leading to a delay in operations. Many insiders share Sreedharan's view and say his criticism is apt. Most old-timers in the BMRC also a

After a manifesto and a vision document, the Congress on Tuesday came up with a ' chargesheet' against the BJP. The party released a recycled ' chargesheet', listing a string of alleged scams which are already in public domain, and held the party responsible for Bengaluru's woes. Titled Gentle

MANGALURU: Vishwa Konkani Student Scholarship Fund, established by World Konkani Centre, Mangaluru will award merit-cum-means scholarships worth Rs 3.5 crore to students from Konkani communities here on Thursday. Incidentally, the day is commemorated for inclusion of Konkani Language in Eighth Sched