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Bengaluru: In a shocking development, a jilted lover threw acid on a 23-year-old woman in Bengaluru on Thursday, police said, adding the victim sustained severe burn injuries and was shifted to a private hospital. The incident had taken place near the Muthoot Fincorp office in Sunkadakatte. The police have launched a hunt for the accused […]

Bengaluru: At least 150 passengers and crew members on board a Thai Airways flight escaped unhurt after the aircraft suffered a tyre burst before it landed in Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIAL), according to sources. The incident took place on Tuesday night and a technical team from the airlines arrived on Wednesday evening with a spare […]

Hyderabad: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth Rs.6.17 crore of persons behind instant loan app companies in different accounts and merchant IDs held in various fintech companies and maintained with various banks and payment gateways. The ED had earlier initiated investigation into two FIRs booked in the Marathahalli and Mahalakshmipuram police […]

Bengaluru: Making non-Christian students read Bible compulsorily in Clarence High School here has created a controversy with Hindu organisations demanding cancellation of its license. Sri Ram Sena founder Pramod Muthalik on Monday asked the school management to keep the Bible at their homes and churches. “Why is Bible being preached to Hindu students who comprise […]

Bengaluru: Hindu organisations in Karnataka are all set to carry out door-to-door campaigns against ‘Azaan’ from Saturday across the state. The campaign will be kick-started from Shivanahalli Circle in Rajajinagar locality of Bengaluru. Sri Rama Sena has given out a call for the campaign and Rishi Kumara Swamiji of Kali Mutt would inaugurate the campaign. […]

Hyderabad: A youngster who nursed dreams of becoming a doctor was duped of Rs.10.2 lakh after he fell into a trap laid by fraudsters who promised him an MBBS ‘government quota’ seat in a private medical college in Bengaluru. The victim from Malakpet had completed his intermediate from a private college here and had appeared […]

Hyderabad: Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud directed the tourism development corporation to cancel the lease and take possession of 130 acres allotted to Secunderabad Golf Course Project Private Limited at Shamirpet. The Minister held a meeting with the Telangana State Tourism Development Corporation (TSTDC) officials here on Wednesday. During the meeting, officials informed that in […]

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Police have filed an FIR against a man for allegedly circulating obscene pictures of his wife in Bengaluru, police said on Monday. According to police, the accused had clicked the photographs when his wife fell unconscious after drinking juice laced with sedatives. The 30-year-old woman, a resident of Kanakapura road in Bengaluru, […]

Hyderabad: Skootr Global, a managed office space provider, has plans to invest upwards of Rs 75 crore in Hyderabad to double its office space under management. Currently, it has about 3.5 lakh sqft and is looking to sign up a similar amount of space this year, said Puneet Chandra, co-founder and director, Skootr. Skootr offers […]

Mumbai: Rajasthan Royals (RR) spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has revealed a terrifying incident during IPL 2013 in Bengaluru when he was hung from the 15th-floor balcony of a hotel by an inebriated bully cricketer, which left him “kind of fainted”. Chahal was then in his last year with IPL franchise Mumbai Indians, before he started a […]

Bengaluru: Six schools situated on the outskirts of Bengaluru got bomb threats on Friday, said the police. Following this, the premises were emptied and the police rushed to the schools along with bomb disposal and dog squads and carried out search operations. The bomb threats were found on the official email ids of the schools. Initially, […]

By B Krishna Mohan/ S Sandeep Kumar Hyderabad: The Twitter banter between Industries Minister KT Rama Rao and Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar on infrastructure development has triggered a debate in social media platforms on which city was better, Hyderabad or Bengaluru? What started as a friendly discussion on Tuesday took a bit of a […]

Protest leads to massive pile-up of vehicles on highways leading to Mumbai, Nagpur, Vijayawada and Bengaluru

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Medcis Pathlabs has been acquired by Manipal HealthMap, an integrated diagnostic service provider in an all-cash deal for a majority stake. With this deal, Manipal HealthMap will expand its footprint to 19 additional centres which takes the total number to 60 centres across 14 States. Through this acquisition, Manipal HealthMap will have access […]

Hyderabad: Industries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao’s tweet to Khatabook CEO Ravish Naresh, who had complained about poor infrastructure in Bengaluru, evoked different responses from Karnataka Congress Chief DK Shivakumar and Karnataka’s IT Minister C N Ashwath Narayan. Khatabook founder-CEO Ravish Naresh had complained about the poor road infrastructure and power cuts in Bengaluru. […]

Hyderabad: Industries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao urged the startup community in Bengaluru to consider Hyderabad for their operations. Replying to a tweet by serial entrepreneur Ravish Naresh complaining about the traffic snarls in Bengaluru, Rama Rao said, “Pack your bags and move to Hyderabad! We have better physical infrastructure and equally good social […]

Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) has successfully completed and commissioned the Secunderabad-Mahabubnagar doubling and electrification project. The doubling of this crucial section will enhance rail connectivity between Hyderabad and other major cities including Kurnool, Anantapur, Kadapa, Bengaluru, Tirupati and others in the southern region. Doubling of the last stretch between Gollapalli and Divitipalli, covering […]

New Delhi: IndiGo had the best on-time performance (OTP) of 95.4 per cent at four metro airports in February, while Go First secured the number two position with 94.1 per cent in the same month, according to data released by aviation regulator DGCA. Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai were the four airports where Indigo had […]

Hyderabad: Three successive waves of Covid pandemic in the last two years, led to unique public health challenges for general public, private and government hospitals in Telangana. This was for the first time that State governments across the country had to face such unique healthcare difficulties during a pandemic that impacted a large cross section […]

Bengaluru: The Faraz Arshad-trained Thousand Words appeals most for the Sirimane Falls Plate 1200 metres, a handicap for horses rated 20 to 45, the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday. False rails will be announced on race day. The first race starts at 2.30 pm. SELECTIONS 1. Impeccable 1, War […]