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RCB victory parade: Bengaluru turns red as fans pour into streets to welcome 1st time IPL champions

The much-anticipated open-top bus parade from Vidhana Soudha to the stadium will also start at 5 PM following the team's reception by the CM at the Bengaluru airport.

Karnataka Deputy CM Shivakumar’s big-ticket projects facing heat. Hemavathi Canal latest to draw fire

Several farmers, BJP & JD(S) members, and religious seers have staged protests demanding the project be scrapped. Shivakumar, however, says the uproar is ‘politically motivated’.

Bengaluru is copying Mumbai. Language purity is becoming a code for economic frustration

The informal economy’s most vulnerable become convenient scapegoats for attendant concerns about jobs and cultural change. The backlash against Kamal Haasan for his remarks on Kannada reflects these anxieties.

A chain of retaliatory killings & a political blame game keep coastal Karnataka on boil

Karnataka govt’s ‘anti-communal force’ is yet to become operational, even as tensions in communally sensitive coastal regions remain dangerously close to spiraling out of control.

With fee layout set in ‘local context’, University of Liverpool’s Bengaluru campus to begin ops in 2026

Vice chancellor Tim Jones tells ThePrint that the university aims to develop its India campus into a global institution, with the enrolment target of 10,000 students in 10 years.

As rains expose infra woes, ‘de facto mayor’ Shivakumar announces measures to protect ‘Brand Bengaluru’

The Karnataka govt announced flood relief of Rs 10,000, infrastructure upgrades, parking reforms, and a ban on footpath vendors.

‘Congress office in Turkey’ claim: After FIRs, Arnab’s Republic TV admits error, Amit Malviya defiant

Complaints filed after Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV ran visuals of building in Türkiye claiming it was Congress party office. Visuals were shared by BJP functionary Amit Malviya.

Fed up of Bengaluru roads, doctor drags civic body to court, seeks Rs 50 lakh in damages

Kiran Jeevan says he suffered from neck and back pain, which was medically linked to the ‘jerks and trauma caused while commuting on Bengaluru’s treacherous roads’.

Bengaluru under water, Siddaramaiah govt gears up for grand 2-yr anniversary

City flooded, Deputy CM Shivakumar, in Vijayanagara Monday for the upcoming celebrations, says that Bengaluru does not have problems.

Kannada film body boycotts Sonu Nigam over Pahalgam remark, demands apology

The singer has defended himself saying he is entitled to take offence when 'someone threatens me in the name of language, that too Kannada, my second language when it comes to work'.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.