Bengaluru: Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar has asked officials to shortlist five cities outside Bengaluru to push forward industrial development in the state. He gave the directive while chairing a progress review meeting of the Commerce and Industries Department at his home office in Bengaluru. The idea is to draw industries to these new…
Bengaluru: A new report from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) says the proposed short tunnel at Bengaluru’s Hebbal Junction won’t actually solve the traffic problem there. Instead, it’ll just push the congestion somewhere else. The study, done by the IISc Sustainable Transportation (IST) Lab and released on Tuesday, says the traffic jams will simply…
Bengaluru is set to get its first toll flyover, and tenders for the project have officially been invited. The 28-km elevated corridor will connect Yeshwanthpur to KR Puram, and the toll on it can’t be collected for more than 32-and-a-half years, that’s 11,863 days to be exact, from the day the tender is awarded. Bengaluru…
Bengaluru: Two officials from the Bengaluru Municipal Corporation have been arrested for allegedly taking a bribe. On Thursday, the Karnataka Lokayukta police caught the two officials while they were accepting Rs 3 lakh from a person for clearing pending ‘Khata’ work related to a property. According to officials, the complainant had reported that the officers…
Bengaluru: IndianOil has increased the supply of auto LPG across Karnataka as demand has gone up sharply, especially in Bengaluru. The rise in demand comes after many private LPG fuel stations in the city and other parts of the state have either shut down or are only partly working. To manage the situation, the state-run…
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru East City Corporation on Friday presented its first-ever budget, with a total outlay of Rs 3,889.98 crore for 2026–27. The budget focuses on improving infrastructure, connectivity and healthcare services. This is the first budget since the corporation was formed. In September 2025, Bengaluru was divided into five municipal corporations Central, East, West,…
Bengaluru: A 13-year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother who left home after being scolded by their parents have been traced and safely reunited with their family, police said on Wednesday. The children had walked out of their house in Ashwathnagar on February 2. They were reportedly upset after being reprimanded for skipping tuition classes. According…
Bengaluru: A 52-year-old man was detained at Kempegowda International Airport after he allegedly told security personnel that he was carrying “two small bombs” in his luggage, police said on Thursday. The man, identified as Abu Aqeel Azhar Chad, is a cloth merchant and a resident of Wilson Garden in Bengaluru. He had arrived at the…
Bengaluru: Bengaluru police have registered a case against a former senior employee of an IT company for allegedly stealing proprietary software source code estimated to be worth around Rs 87 crore. The accused, Ashutosh Nigam, had been working as a ssenior manager-research scientist with Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt Ltd since February 1, 2020. According…
Bengaluru: A 33-year-old man was allegedly run over and killed following a drunken argument after a local cricket tournament in Bengaluru’s Electronics City area. Police have arrested the accused, a 37-year-old software engineer, in connection with the incident. The victim, identified as Prashanth M, a bodybuilder and resident of Veerasandra, died on Sunday evening after…
