A woman in Bengaluru was harassed and allegedly slapped by an Ola auto driver after she cancelled her ride booked through the ride hailing app. A video of the altercation, shared on social media, shows the auto driver and the woman arguing, during which he tries to snatch her phone. In the video, an agitated … Read more
Suspended Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S), leader Prajwal Revanna was detained at the airport in Bengaluru early on Friday morning upon his homecoming from Germany, weeks after he was charged with widespread sexual assault. Revanna, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate for the Hassan Lok Sabha seat, left for Germany on April 27 a day … Read more
Bengaluru South Lok Sabha MP Tejasvi Surya claimed he was eating chaat at a roadside stall in 2019, when he came to know that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had picked him to contest from the high-profile constituency following the demise of senior party MP H.N. Ananth Kumar in November 2018. A political greenhorn in electoral politics, Surya … Read more
Nearly half of Bengaluru’s voters did not turn up to vote in the Lok Sabha elections on Friday. Voting took place in 14 constituencies in Karnataka, with the Election Commission estimating the turnout at 69.23 per cent. However, the percentage of voters who exercised their franchise in three urban constituencies in the city — Bangalore … Read more
CCTV footage has surfaced in Bengaluru, Karnataka, a day after an explosion at the Rameshwaram Cafe. The film shows a guy bringing a suitcase into the cafe’s premises in the Whitefield district of the city. According to investigators, the suspect reportedly placed this bag in the café and then fled before the explosion occurred. Another … Read more
On Friday morning, as many as 15 schools in Karnataka’s capital Bengaluru received bomb threat emails, causing alarm among officials, students, parents, and staff. The city police assume the emails are a hoax, but they are undertaking an investigation to rule out all possibilities, according to news agency PTI. Authorities, including the bomb squad, are … Read more
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Monday that a groundbreaking 287-kilometer circular railway network is in the works to connect Bengaluru with key towns, marking it as the largest network of its kind in India. This ambitious project aims to address the city’s growing transportation needs for the next 40-50 years, providing comprehensive connectivity across … Read more
The mosquito-borne Zika virus was discovered close to Bengaluru, every fever case there is now being investigated. The virus was identified in a Chikkaballapur mosquito subsequent to its submission for analysis in August. The 5-kilometer radius around Talkaebetta, where the sample originated, has been alerted. “As many as 100 samples were collected from across the … Read more
The audience in Bengaluru was left disappointed when stand-up comedian Nishant Suri had to cancel his show on October 13 due to non-payment of dues by the event organizers, The Entertainment Factory. The winner of Comicstaan Season 1 took to Instagram to express his frustration, revealing that the organizers even went to the extent of … Read more
In a horrifying incident that has sent shockwaves through Bengaluru, unidentified assailants forcibly entered the residence of an 82-year-old woman and callously took her life, absconding with two gold chains and a pair of bangles she adorned. The heart-wrenching crime unfolded as the assailants bound the elderly woman’s limbs and stifled her voice with tape, … Read more