'Why Do We Need Cities Where People Travel Long Distances?'

'In the larger cities, we can see that 12%-20% of the population making use of the metros. I don't think it is happening in the smaller cities.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi inaugurates......

'Inappropriately dressed' farmer denied entry in B'luru metro

Bengaluru Metro on Monday sacked a security supervisor for allegedly barring a farmer from using its train services for being "inappropriately dressed." Photograph: Kind courtesy @DeepakN172/X A......

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......

An Ill Wind Blowing Over Karnataka

This divisiveness is upsetting social cohesion and can throw the bright young people thronging to Bengaluru with billion dollar ideas in their creative minds off balance, warns Shekhar Gupta.......

'$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......