NEW DELHI: The suicide of an executive from an automobile company has raised alarm, especially against the backdrop of a bitter family court dispute.It has been claimed that relentless pressure from his wife and in-laws pushed him to this extreme decision. They allegedly demanded Rs 3 crore to drop the legal battles against him, as…
MANDYA: Former CM of Karnataka, SM Krishna, BA, BL, MCL (TEXAS), who served as union minister thrice, is no more. He breathed his last at his residence in Bengaluru at 2.45 am on Tuesday.He served as Karnataka CM between October 11, 1999, and May 20, 2004. He served as Maharashtra governor between December 6, 2004,…
BENGALURU: A 29-year-old IT professional working in a private firm in Electronics City was extorted Rs 8.1 lakh after booking an escort service on an online portal.Gautham (name changed), a resident of Electronics City, got the number of a call girl, Amrutha Gill, on massagerepublic.com. He called her who introduced herself as Roopa, aka Kushi,…
BENGALURU: The Muslim community is mounting pressure on the govt to restore the 4% reservation which they previously enjoyed, especially since voting patterns in last year’s assembly elections and the bypolls to three assembly seats this month show the community had consolidated behind Congress party.The quota was scrapped by the previous BJP govt but a…
BENGALURU: A 22-year-old vlogger-cum-private company employee from the city was found murdered inside a hotel room in Indiranagar on Tuesday morning. Maya Gogoi, a native of Assam, had been residing in HSR Layout for three years. An employee with a firm in Koramangala, Maya came to hotel Royal Living, located opposite Double Road Park, 1st…
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, daughter of Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy, visited the Raghavendra Swamy Mutt in Bengaluru. The couple, accompanied by Narayana Murthy and his wife Sudha Murty, a Rajya Sabha member, sought blessings and participated in traditional rituals at the temple on Tuesday. NEW DELHI:…
NEW DELHI: A viral video capturing a confrontation in Bengaluru between a local resident and a man who doesn’t speak Kannada has stirred a heated debate on social media.In the video, shared on ‘X’ by user ‘ManjuKBye’ shows, a local man questioning another individual, who has been living and working in Karnataka for 12 years,…
Several devotees were injured during a festival at the Deviramma hill temple in Mallenahalli. NEW DELHI: At least five devotees were injured on Thursday evening during a festival at the Deviramma hill temple in Mallenahalli in Karnataka‘s Chikkamagaluru district.The devotees sustained injuries as they slipped and fell on the hills. This was attributed to rainfall…
In Bengaluru, 24-year-old Siddu confronted his girlfriend in Padmanabhanagar, discovering she was with her new boyfriend, Mohan. A heated argument ensued, during which Mohan violently attacked Siddu, injuring him severely. BENGALURU: A 24-year-old youth confronted his girlfriend when she was with her new lover, only to be assaulted in Padmanabhanagar, south Bengaluru, Tuesday morning.Siddu (name…
To address this, the government plans to tap into cash-rich state-run boards and corporations and invest in those needing funds instead of relying on external borrowings. BENGALURU: Staring at a 12,000 crore shortfall, plans are afoot to reduce the borrowing burden. In what is a telltale sign of a welfare state spending close to a…
