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Topic: Bengaluru

Products straight to consumers, aid for producers. Bharat Organics looks to disrupt organic market

Launched in March, digital platform has started gaining traction, recording over 25,000 visitors as govt-backed initiative looks to establish itself as a national organic brand.

Mysore Sandal Soap, cigarettes & sambar—Bengaluru artist maps the city through its smells

Artist Indu Antony’s Vāsané project captures the city in sambar, smoke, rain and memory—turning overlooked scents into a living archive.

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, 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.

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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.