K'taka portfolios: Siddaramaiah keeps finance, Shivakumar gets irrigation

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has allocated portfolios to ministers in his Cabinet, keeping the Finance department with himself while assigning the Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development......

Face masks, limited hours: Centre's guidelines for Metro services

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said Metro train services will resume in a graded manner from September 7 across the country, except in Maharashtra, and passengers will have to......

Getting ready for Covid-19

'Infectious disease is a given of humankind. There will always be another around the corner.'Rahul Jacob listens in. IMAGE: A municipal worker sprays disinfectant on a street, amid coronavirus......

Karnataka will implement 'difficult' SC order, 1 dies in Cauvery violence

A day after being rocked by large-scale violence, the city appeared to limp back to normal on Tuesday with sporadic protests, even as the Karnataka government decided to comply with the Supreme......

'$1.37bn pumped into real estate in smaller cities in 2015-18'

'In the absence of direct bank or NBFC funding, builders are unable to complete the stuck projects leading to a pile of approximately 5.75 lakh units stuck/delayed in top cities.' Photograph:......

Pradeep Singh Kharola is new Air India CMD

A 1985-batch Karnataka cadre officer, Kharola would be steering the national airline at a time when the government has started the process for its strategic divestment. Senior Indian......

IKEA acquires 14-acre plot in Bengaluru for third India store

Store will directly employ 500-700 people, half of them women, and create 1,500 jobs indirectly Swedish retail giant IKEA has acquired a fourteen-acre plot on the outskirts of north Bengaluru to......

Phase one of Bengaluru Metro to be launched today

  So far, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has been carrying around 20,000 passengers a day on two separate lines -- Byapanahalli to MG Road and Peenya to Malleswaram A bus journey on the......