Bengaluru

BDA chairman N.A. Harris says 1,072 trees will be transplanted and 56 felled for Bengaluru’s Hebbal short-tunnel project.

Bhaskar Rao has asked the Union Home Ministry to verify Dhruv Rathee’s citizenship and visa status after his participation in Bengaluru’s anti-SIR protest

BDA is expected to invite tenders for Packages 2 and 3 of Bengaluru’s Peripheral Ring Road Phase 1 by November 2026.

Air India Express will add five routes from Bengaluru from October 25, including Kathmandu, Goa, Jodhpur, Madurai and Coimbatore.

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke met Kavitha and Esha Lankesh in Bengaluru, calling them his “new family” after the party’s protest.

DRI seized 1.3 kg of gold biscuits worth Rs 1.8 crore at Bengaluru airport in an alleged smuggling operation involving luggage trolleys.

A 46-year-old Bengaluru man was arrested after a post-mortem revealed 12 injuries on his mother’s body, contradicting his claim that she died in a fall.

Bengaluru plans nearly 3,000 additional buses, wider footpaths and better last-mile links to encourage public transport use and ease congestion.

An IISc expert says the Kanakapura-Bengaluru passage is too small to be an elephant corridor and questions whether an overpass would reduce conflict.

AI could help optimise Bengaluru’s bus routes and schedules, but experts say governance, data sharing and effective implementation remain key challenges.

Five people were injured in two transformer explosions in Bengaluru, with BESCOM citing a rat-induced short circuit as the preliminary cause of one blast.

A high-end car crashed into an Attibele petrol bunk, caught fire and injured an employee. Police detained the driver for questioning.

Over 2,000 people joined a Bengaluru protest against SIR, with Dhruv Rathee and Prakash Raj participating in the People’s Tribunal.

SIT finds nearly 15,000 suspected fake Zavicefta and Emblaveo vials distributed since April 2025 as Karnataka probe expands.

Karnataka has partnered with ElevenLabs on an AI initiative to help people who have lost speech communicate using synthetic versions of their voices.

Bengaluru Skill Summit 2026 will be held from November 3 to 5 under the theme ‘Workforce 2030: Scale, Systems, Synergy’.

Karnataka Cabinet approved five Bengaluru police commissionerates under a Chief Commissioner, with 1,022 new posts cleared in the first phase.

Bengaluru South City Corporation cleaned 709 of 1,242 vacant sites in two months and issued notices to 372 property owners.

Karnataka’s SIR received over 54 lakh applications, while the CEO said no voter has been deleted yet and Form 7 requests remain under verification.

A Kanteerava Studio Road cavity became a tunnel after heavy rain, prompting officials to fill the damaged section with construction debris.