- new34-year-old software engineer did not die in fire, she was murdered by 18-year-old neighbour
The accused has been identified as Karnal Kurai, 18, a native of Virajpet town in Kodagu district
- 16 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 9:38pm -
- newYouTube channel booked for uploading misleading PU exam paper
The uploaded content allegedly mimicked the Hindi language preparatory examination paper for PU students scheduled to be held on January 9
- 16 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 9:13pm -
- newTracing Traffic Violations: Helmetless riding dominates Bengaluru’s traffic violations in 2025
2025 was also the year that traffic police personnel returned to the streets to book cases, drawing the ire of many
- 17 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 8:31pm -
- newIndia’s oldest Open Circuit Wind Tunnel at IISc gets an upgrade
Over the past 66 years, the OCWT has conducted more than 370 test campaigns
- 17 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 7:52pm -
- newWoman arrested for assaulting Home Guard on duty
- 18 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 7:22pm -
- newBengaluru Traffic Police book nearly 10,000 cases against motorists for using high beams in city limits
- 18 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 7:10pm -
- newPOCSO Act invoked in six-year-old girl murder case in Whitefield
- 18 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 6:52pm -
- newSWR nears full electrification as Bengaluru Division achieves 99% coverage
- 19 hours ago 11 Jan 26, 6:42pm -
- BJP and JD(S) accuse Congress of misleading people on VB-G RAM G scheme, welcome special session
The alliance partners said they would take the issue to the village level to counter the ‘misinformation’ being spread by the Congress
- 1 day ago 11 Jan 26, 6:13am -
- Mobility, pollution, housing, and access to basic services shape Bengaluru’s health, say experts
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 11:20pm -
- China will have half of newly-diagnosed Parkinson’s disease cases in the next decade: Nobel Laureate
In 2030, it is estimated that 8.7 million individuals will be affected by Parkinson’s, of which 57% will be from China, 14% from Europe, 8% from India, 7% from the U.S., 4% from Brazil, and 10% others
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 10:03pm -
- Road-cutting, footpath encroachment issues raised at meeting with West Corporation officials
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 9:39pm -
- Complaint against seven employees of ICFRE–IWST for securing govt. jobs through forgery and impersonation
During internal scrutiny at the IWST, discrepancies were noticed between the handwriting, signatures, attendance sheets, OMR answer sheets, admit cards and service records of the accused employees
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 8:33pm -
- Tracing traffic violations: Road accident deaths fall for second straight year in Bengaluru despite rise in accidents
Karthik Reddy, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), attributes the improvement to better enforcement and special drives such as drunk-driving checks, which led to a reduction in fatal accidents
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 8:01pm -
- Phil Scarff and MoonArra bring ragas, rhythm and jazz to Bengaluru
Music – The Harvest Horn of Plenty will see US saxophonist Phil Scarff and Bengaluru’s MoonArra present original compositions based on Indian classical ragas and jazz harmonies
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 6:36pm -
- Drunk driver rams car into Bengaluru restaurant wall
Police said the car was driven by 42-year-old Derrick Tony, who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 6:22pm -
- Kannada writer Asha Raghu found dead in her home
Asha Raghu was a novelist and had also worked in the television industry as a dialogue writer and assistant director; the Kannada Writers and Publishers Association expressed its condolences to the bereaved family
- 2 days ago 10 Jan 26, 6:11pm -
- ‘Not everybody needs to go beyond the basics of computing, just as not everybody needs to write poetry’
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 9:52pm -
- Water reuse must move from the margins to the mainstream: Experts
‘Karnataka and Delhi lead the country with reuse levels of 49% and 43% respectively.’
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 9:40pm -
- Will exert Constitutional right to oppose Malayalam Bhasha Bill, CM tells Pinarayi in letter
Kannada and Culture Minister Shivaraj Tangadgi said that if needed CM and DyCM will meet President to request her to see that the Bill does not get approval
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 9:35pm -
- Governor keeps hate speech Bill ‘under consideration’, sends back two for clarification
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 9:22pm -
- CS reviews Bengaluru airport’s new pick-up, parking regulations
BIAL has agreed to introduce valet parking services for private vehicles parked in the P4 parking area, enabling vehicles to be brought to the arrival lane within four minutes, and converting it into multi-level parking in future
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 9:05pm -
- RGUHS to shift its campus to Bengaluru South District by March in phased manner
In the first phase, we will shift the administrative block. The examination section will function from the Bengaluru office for some time in the interest of students, says RGUHS V-C
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 8:20pm -
- Tracing traffic violations: East Bengaluru tops drunk driving violations as city records 38,000 cases in 2025
In this three-part series, we look at trends and patterns in Bengaluru’s traffic violation data
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 8:01pm -
- Bengaluru Metro turns to property monetisation, floats tender to appoint a transaction advisor for S.V. Road Metro Station land development
BMRCL is actively pursuing the development of land around its metro stations into commercial buildings, office spaces, and retail hubs to generate substantial non-fare revenue
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 7:28pm -
- CBI arrests Central Power Research Institute joint director in ₹9.5 lakh bribery case
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 4:55pm -
- Decode Karnataka: Do Bengaluru’s urban poor have a right to the city?
Why have successive governments failed to address the housing needs of Bengaluru’s homeless?
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 3:18pm -
- BCU launches free Civil Services Training Centre in Bengaluru
Prof. Purushottam Bilimale, Chairperson of the Kannada Development Authority, lauded the programme for promoting skill development and competitive exam readiness
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 12:48pm -
- State Bank of India sets up Global Capability Centre in Bengaluru
This Global Capability Centre marks a first-of-its-kind initiative by any Indian bank
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 11:43am -
- Beyond Bengaluru: Spreading the digital bet
The Karnataka Digital Economy Mission launched the Beyond Bengaluru Mission in 2021 to drive a distributed growth of digital economy outside the State capital. Shilpa Elizabeth reviews the situation five years down the line and finds that despite teething issues, the overriding feeling is that the mission is making slow but sure progress
- 3 days ago 9 Jan 26, 8:00am -
- Fake social media accounts of Jayanagar MLA used to cheat public; case registered
- 4 days ago 9 Jan 26, 12:07am -
- Karnataka State Film Awards 2020 and 2021: M.S. Sathyu honoured with Puttanna Kanagal Award
Legendary filmmaker M.S. Sathyu clinched Puttanna Kanagal Award for 2020, while popular actor Jayamala took home Dr. Rajkumar Award
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 10:19pm -
- Unemployment: 48,000 engineering graduates have registered under Yuva Nidhi scheme
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 10:04pm -
- Amid Kogilu row, BDA takes up demolition near Thanisandra without notices; Commissioner orders probe
While BDA maintains that 13 houses are demolished, residents say that more than 20 houses are affected; Many of the displaced families were tenants who had been living in the area for nearly five years
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 9:43pm -
- Yoga halves opioid withdrawal time, finds NIMHANS study
Participants, who received yoga alongside buprenorphine-based treatment, achieved withdrawal resolution in a median of five days, compared with nine days among those on medication alone, the study found
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 9:24pm -
- Karnataka government to offer A-Khata status to B-Khata properties in urban local bodies jurisdiction
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 9:20pm -
- Domestic Workers’ Rights Union condemns defamatory advt. by house-help platform
The ad by an on-demand househelp provider claims ‘three out of 10 maids have done some form of crime’
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 8:25pm -
- Kaveri 2.0 autofilling property details from e-khatas, builders claim ECs having incomplete details
Builders claim the name of the project, carpet area, tower number, block number are not being reflected properly in Encumbrance Certificates
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 7:57pm -
- Bengaluru senior citizen loses ₹26.52 lakh to online fraudsters; FIR registered
The victim received a message from an unknown mobile number, asking him to do an RTO challan update; it contained APK link, which the complainant believed it to be genuine and downloaded the file
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 7:47pm -
- Kogilu demolition: Two arrested for encroachment of government land in Bengaluru
According to police officials, several individuals had illegally occupied government land in Kogilu village and constructed sheds without authorisation
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 3:40pm -
- From heading Western Ghats panel to helping establish world class centres in IISc, Madhav Gadgil had a long association with Karnataka
Madhav Gadgil headed the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, also known as the Gadgil Committee, which made several recommendations to safeguard the fragile Western Ghats
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 10:38am -
- A festival for all Bengalureans
V Ravichandar, chief facilitator of BLR Hubba, a city-wide arts and culture festival, now in its third edition, tells us what to expect for it
- 4 days ago 8 Jan 26, 6:09am -
- Survey flags 264 dead trees, 1,427 hazardous branches across Bengaluru
Activists see this scientific enumeration as a positive development, as the exercise would not only help fix accountability but also lead to a better understanding of the overall health of trees in the city.
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 10:55pm -
- BWSSB replaces 100 metres of pipeline at Lingarajapuram in Bengaluru in 24 hours
BWSSB deployed robotic technology to pinpoint the source of contamination
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 10:25pm -
- Minister raps BIAL over Bengaluru airport’s pick-up, parking regulations
During the inspection, the Minister also noticed that a portion of the bus bays earmarked for Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) Vayu Vajra airport buses had been taken over, triggering sharp criticism from him
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 10:17pm -
- CEC report to SC recommends restoration of 2016 draft notification on Bannerghatta National Park
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 8:33pm -
- Karnataka to expand menstrual cup distribution as part of sustainable hygiene push
As per a government order, menstrual cups will be introduced only for students from Classes 9 to 12, while sanitary napkins will continue to be provided to students from Classes 6 to 8
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 8:24pm -
- Bengaluru airport gets integrated solid waste management centre
KIA generates approximately 24–26 tonnes of solid waste per day across terminals, airside operations, commercial outlets, and allied facilities currently.
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 8:18pm -
- DPR work starts for proposed Bengaluru–Tumakuru metro line
BMRCL has awarded a contract for preparing the DPR to Aarvee Engineering Consultants, which will prepare the report at a cost exceeding ₹1.2 crore
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 7:59pm -
- Smoked pork and modern paan: Your guide to the food stalls at BLR Hubba 2026
Thindi Hubba, part of BLR Hubba 2026, celebrates the diversity of India’s cuisine, from ghughni in the east to mudde in the south. Curator Kabyashree Borgohain tells us more
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 5:44pm -
- Kogilu Layout demolition: FIR against four persons for selling Karnataka government land for unauthorised construction in Bengaluru
The irregularities were revealed during demolition of over 150 illegal houses and sheds on land earmarked for a solid waste processing unit in north Bengaluru
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 4:59pm -
- 41-year-old woman set on fire loses battle for survival in Bengaluru hospital
She leaves behind a 19-year-old daughter
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 4:17pm -
- Claim of residing at now-demolished houses at Kogilu for 28 years ‘factually incorrect’, State Government tells Karnataka High Court
Authorities have satellite images to show when houses were constructed, Advocate General tells the court during hearing of PIL petition filed by three women, who were among those whose houses were demolished
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 3:11pm -
- NGO rescues 14 illegally relocated puppies in Chikkaballapur
Officials of the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) said they have not received any complaint of illegal relocation
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 2:02pm -
- Traffic fine link fraud: Bengaluru techie loses ₹1.1 lakh from credit card
Bengaluru police book two cases related to traffic fine link fraud
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 12:17pm -
- Six-year-old girl found murdered at Whitefield in Bengaluru
According to the police, her father saw the child playing in front of the family’s makeshift house when he briefly returned home for lunch
- 5 days ago 7 Jan 26, 11:39am -
- Bengaluru traffic police to crack down on high-beam, coloured lights from today
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 10:19pm -
- Garbage blackspots return in southeast Bengaluru as collection vehicles arrive late
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 10:14pm -
- UDD issues final notification amending setback rules for Bengaluru buildings
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 10:05pm -
- As BDA turns 50, DKS urges institutional reform, end of corruption
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 9:58pm -
- Bannerughatta Biological Park gains from safari bans in other popular destinations
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 9:11pm -
- Passport Office in Bengaluru receives bomb threat email; turns out to be hoax
Following the threat message, personnel from bomb disposal squad and police teams rushed to the spot and carried out a thorough inspection of the premises and surrounding areas.
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 5:42pm -
- Electronics City police recover 48 laptops stolen from PGs
One of the accused is a laptop service technician, who would format the stolen laptops and refurbish them before selling them in the grey market for financial gain.
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 5:13pm -
- Mysuru court premises evacuated over ‘bomb threat’
A police team along with bomb disposal squad rushed to the spot and cordoned off the premises to conduct a thorough search.
- 6 days ago 6 Jan 26, 12:45pm -
- Clear night skies bring down minimum temperature in Bengaluru
- 7 days ago 5 Jan 26, 10:28pm -