MANGALURU: A foundation stone laying ceremony for new Mini Vidhan Soudha was held in the city more than seven years ago by the then chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and deputy chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. However, the work of three-storied Mini Vidhan Soudha is being continued in a snail's pace even

Bengaluru: On March 27 this year, Kaushik Punita Sharma, 40, identified as a realtor, was found hanging in his Vakil Garden residence, Talaghattapura, south Bengaluru. The bodies of his wife Sreelatha, 36; son Kaustubh, 9; and daughter Sreeraksha, 11, were in different rooms. A message written in

The announcement of a special economic zone (SEZ) is invariably surrounded by hype and public statements promising how they could change the face of the economy, but do most SEZs actually live up to the tale that’s told at the start? In Karnataka, for instance, of the 60 approved SEZs, as many as

Bengaluru: Autorickshaws may have gained in the fallout of the recent rape of an MNC employee by a driver of cab aggregator Uber in New Delhi. With operations of some cab agencies suspended in the state, auto drivers are now not only in demand, but the aggregator model is being tried on this transpo

BENGALURU: A company from India's Silicon Valley will have a new account in its hand, thanks to Bengaluru police. The cops are outsourcing the task of analyzing 1.29 lakh tweets on @ShamiWitness, Mehdi Masroor Biswas' pro-ISIS Twitter handle, because they lack the expertise to do the job. The invest

Members of Cow, Cattle protection force(CPF) and All Religions Parliament (ARP) took out rally from Town hall to Rajbhavan to protest against slaughtering of Cow Progeny and Cattle in Bangalore. (TOI file photo) BELAGAVI: The Congress government fulfilled one of the assurances it had made during

MANGALURU: SCS Hospital in the city will be the first medical centre in Karnataka to introduce e-ICU facilities. Dr Jeevaraj Sorake, chairman and managing director of the hospital said InteleICU, the IntelliSpace Consultative Critical Care (ICCC) of Philips Healthcare has developed the ICCC solut

BENGALURU: Passport applicants have reason to cheer. To provide faster service, the Regional Passport Office (RPO), Bengaluru, has increased the number of appointments for those applying under Tatkal category. At the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) in Lalbagh, the number has shot up from 140 to 240 pe

Belagavi: Rapping the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) for rampant discrepancies in its works, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said fixing allotment rate before completion of three projects resulted in Rs 146.26 crore loss to the exchequer. In its report for February 2008-July 2013, the

MANGALURU: Konkan Railway will run special trains between Nizamuddin - Trivandrum via Konkan route to clear extra rush of passengers. Details of train service are as follows: Train no. 04410 AC premium special will leave Nizamuddin on every Tuesday on December 16, 23, 30 and on January 6,13, 20 a

BENGALURU: An endeavour to hone the skills of government school English teachers in writing, reading and communication through the British Council (BC) has all but fallen flat. The state government had spent more than Rs 1 crore for the training programme to improve the quality of English teaching i

MANGALURU: Minister for health and family welfare UT Khader on Saturday announced that an intensive care hospital with 100 beds will be set up in Bengaluru soon. The move has been mooted following the death of two boys due to lack of ventilators in Bengaluru hospitals. TOI had highlighted the iss

Use of mobile phones in the Karnataka Assembly was banned on Friday, a day after the House was rocked by chaos over a BJP member watching a zoomed in picture of Priyanka Gandhi during proceedings. Speaker Kagodu Thimappa suspended Prabhu Chavan said: “I hereby pronounce that the use of mobile pho

MANGALURU: 'Jana Nudi', two-day literary meet, will be held under the aegis of Abhimatha Mangaluru at Shanthi Kirana, Nanthoor here from December 13. Litterateurs and activists from various parts of the state will take part in Jana Nudi, which is a platform to oppose the commercialization of lite

Bengaluru: In an embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party, party MLA Prabhu Chavan was caught on camera watching a zoomed in photo of Priyanka Gandhi on his mobile phone in the Karnataka Assembly. Another MLA UB Banakar can also be seen playing video games during proceedings of the Legislative As

BENGALURU: Police are going into a huddle this weekend to discuss the modalities of issuing background verification certificates to cabbies operating in Bengaluru. They have set a December 31 deadline for the task. Police are working on a where application and verification would be online. They a

Bengaluru: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday launched the unified mobile governance platform here to provide a host of services to people across Karnataka. The Karnataka MobileOne multi-mode service, touted as the first of its kind in India, will enable the common man to access about 4,500 ser

Bengaluru: Karnataka's digital footprint just got bigger. The state continued to maintain its tech edge in the country, launching Karnataka MobileOne on Monday. This mobile-governance tool provides citizens access to over 4,000 services — both public and private — through handheld devices. "Prime