Commuters reported delays stretching into several hours at toll plazas despite the use of FASTag. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Bengaluru witnessed severe traffic congestion on Thursday evening as thousands of vehicles poured into the city following the Christmas and New Year holidays, leading to massive queues at toll plazas on the Bengaluru–Mysuru access-controlled highway…
Residents of Akalad, Punnayur, welcome senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala during the Gandhi Gramam programme on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K. K. NAJEEB Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala spent New Year’s Day at Moonnayini in Akalad, Chavakkad, as part of his Gandhigramam project, which is now in its 16th year. He announced support for setting up a community centre using ₹25 lakh from the MPLADS…
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Two students were killed when their motorcycle rammed a parked goods carrier near Narsingi on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Kavya, 20, a third-year BCA student at Sri Chaitanya Deemed College, Himayathnagar, and T. Kaushik Reddy, 21, a student of the same institute and a resident of Malkapur village in Tandur. The accident was…
An unidentified pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run accident on National Highway 44 near the Medchal checkpost on Thursday (January 1, 2025) afternoon. The accident was reported around 12.15 p.m. near a petrol pump on the road, when a speeding car hit a man aged about 50 years as he was crossing the road. The…
Hithesh Sanker, forensic surgeon at the Government Medical College Hospital, Thrissur, is struggling hard these days to shrug off the blood-stained memories of the post-mortem examination performed on Ram Narayan Baghel, a Chhattisgarh native, on December 18, 2025. Over his career spanning a few decades, Dr. Sanker has conducted hundreds of post-mortem examinations. However, the…
The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) has recorded a historic high of 57 trap cases in 2025, leading to the arrest of 76 individuals, including public servants and intermediaries. The agency recorded its most intensive anti-corruption performance to date last year, as it registered a sharp rise in trap cases, arrests, investigations, and convictions. The…
T. Krishnappa, president, Karnataka State Government Fair Price Shop Dealers Association, at a press conference in Mysuru on Thursday. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram The Karnataka State Government Fair Price Shop Dealers’ Association has urged the State government to ensure the timely payment of commission due to them through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) every month….
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, on Tuesday carried out search operations on the office premises of the accounting firm associated with online gaming company WinZO Pvt. Ltd. According to an official statement, WinZO Pvt. Ltd. operates online real-money gaming services through its mobile application, WinZO. During the searches, the ED froze Proceeds…
A KDA order reads that since Kannada is the sovereign and administrative language in Karnataka, daily correspondence related to NAAC has to be conducted in Kannada. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Department of Collegiate Education has issued an order to all government, aided and private degree colleges as well as B.Ed colleges to conduct…