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Topic: Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Chennai eateries charging extra ‘gas bill’ to customers—‘we are being transparent’

As cylinder supplies dry up and costs skyrocket, food vendors say they are cutting menus, increasing prices or scrambling for alternatives just to keep their kitchens running.

Molested by customers — Snabbit, Urban Company women gig workers say they work in fear

Quick home service workers in Delhi and Bengaluru are hired with promises of better pay and flexible hours. But the women say safeguards are few, and fear of job loss stops many from reporting harassment.

Bengaluru traffic woes may get ‘London-style’ solution. State finance panel proposes congestion tax

Karnataka’s Siddaramaiah-led govt has been discussing the tax at least since last September and is ‘likely to accept’ the recommendation of Fifth State Finance Commission.

Karnataka food minister says ‘give up 1 meal per week’, PGs introduce ‘crisis menu’ amid LPG panic

Invoking Lal Bahadur Shastri’s call for austerity measures during 1965 food shortage, Karnataka minister Muniyappa urged citizens to ‘give up one meal per week’.

Bengaluru hotels out of gas? Siddaramaiah warns eateries may shut as Centre prioritises domestic LPG

A possible commercial LPG shortage has alarmed Bengaluru’s food industry, prompting CM Siddaramaiah to write to Centre after hotels warn they may shut kitchens if cylinder supplies not restored soon.

Bengaluru forgotten in Karnataka Budget? No big-ticket infra or decongestion push, same old tunnel vision

Siddaramaiah announced that 41 km of additional Metro lines would be made operational during 2026-27 and added that 450 km of roads would be white-topped at Rs 3,000 crore.

Bengaluru’s MAP Academy is now Impart—interactive timelines, more resources on regional art

With the introduction of two new sections — Journeys and Timelines — Impart seeks to offer more collaborative research and multimedia storytelling on its platform.

Bengaluru’s badminton boom. Powered by techies, app, thousands of courts

Badminton is Bengaluru’s primary source of feel-good endorphins. In the city that produced Prakash Padukone and Ashwini Ponnappa, techies are now carrying the torch.

19-year-old Bengaluru student alleges gangrape at villa; one of two accused claims blackmail bid

Accused filed a police complaint day before student filed own complaint, alleged she was invited for a party at a villa where the two accused drugged and sexually assaulted her.

India’s Silicon Beach: As Bengaluru sputters, a new IT haven is taking shape on Karnataka’s coast

The coastal belt of Mangaluru, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada is now dubbed the ‘Silicon Beach’ of India, with hundreds of tech companies setting up shop.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.