This year, the Cauvery water sharing dispute cast a long shadow on the special services announced by the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation during Dussera, but the company is hoping to recover at least some of its losses during Deepavali. On Tuesday, KSRTC announced that it would operate 1,500 extra buses in addition to its regular schedule. The extra services, […]
» Read moreThe Central Crime Branch (CCB) officials, on Friday, arrested two Nigerian nationals and recovered 50 g of cocaine worth Rs. 2.5 lakh from them. The accused – Nduba Joseph (25) and Nwite Sunday Rose (32) from East Nigeria – were nabbed from an apartment in Indiranagar where they were staying. The accused reportedly confessed that they used to get cocaine […]
» Read moreA private Bombardier 5000 (GL5T) aircraft, headed for the BRICS summit in Goa on Saturday, had to be diverted to the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru due to bad weather. The flight landed at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Onboard the aircraft was a six-member delegation headed by Oleg Belozerov. head of Russian railways (RZD). After refuelling, the aircraft took off […]
» Read moreThe Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has stopped its services towards Tamil Nadu which is observing a bandh over the Cauvery dispute on Tuesday. Over 120 schedules of the KSRTC were cancelled in the morning after their counterparts in Tamil Nadu advised them on the fears of these buses being targeted. In all, KSRTC operates 410 schedules towards Tamil […]
» Read moreActor-turned-politician Ramya, who has been trolled on social media for her ‘Pakistan is not hell’ remark, is now facing a private complaint in a Somwarpet court and a postcard campaign in Mysuru. Advocate K. Vittal Gowda filed a private complaint under Section 200 of Cr.Pc in the first JMFC court in Somwarpet on Monday, accusing Ramya of “insulting India” and […]
» Read moreTwo men were killed on the spot after a KSRTC bus hit their bike on a busy flyover at Nandagudi on NH7 on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Gopalakrishna, an employee of a mobile service provider, and his friend Gopi, a photographer. Both the victims belonged to Mulabagilu in Kolar district. They […]
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