In a brazen attack outside a police station here, three persons, all sons of policemen, allegedly assaulted two young girls involved in an accident before they were arrested and sent to judicial custody.
“The boys have been arrested last night for allegedly assaulting two young girls and the mother of one of them. They have been sent to judicial custody,” Joint Police Commissioner B K Singh told PTI here.
Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd Thursday announced a fellowship programme to nurture talent of American school teachers in mathematics and science in collaboration with Michigan State University.
“We are funding the multi-year programme with a $2.8-million grant to initially train about 100 teachers in Chicago public schools in both the subjects,” Wipro chief executive T.K. Kurien said in a statement from New Jersey.
A day-long strike by about 12,000 employees of state-run and private banks Wednesday stalled operations, including transactions, across Karnataka, a trade union leader said.
“The strike was total and peaceful across the state. About 4,000 employees of banks in and around Bangalore demonstrated outside the State Bank of Mysore (SBM) head office in the city centre in support of their demands, including wage revision,” Karnataka’s United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) joint convener A.N. Krishnamurthy told IANS.
Indian IT bellwether Infosys Ltd. won a deal from Foreign Enterprise Service Corporation (Fesco) to develop an innovative human resources services platform solution, the company said Tuesday.
“As enterprises in China accelerate their transformation and growth, they are looking for partners who understand requirements of both global and local businesses,” Infosys China subsidiary Chief Operating Officer Mike Lu said in a statement from Beijing.
Strand Scientific Intelligence of Strand Life Sciences Tuesday unveiled an image database for better diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.
The city-based Strand subsidiary developed the Curie Image Database (CID), an image analysis and management platform, with the Paris-based Curie-Cancer of Institut Curie, a private foundation formed by Marie Curie (1867-1935) – the first women Nobel laureate.
Leading retail chain Titan Industries Ltd Monday opened its 1,000 store here, becoming the first Indian firm to have a thousand outlets across the country in seven formats.
“It has been a fascinating journey for us since 1988 when we opened our first watch store in this tech city. It was a bold step then when consumer products and retail market were unorganised and underserved,” Titan managing director Bhaskar Bhat told reporters on the occasion.
The Indian space agency Monday cautioned people on forged profiles about its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
“It has come to our notice that a number of pages in the social media are floating in our name, department of space and Mangalyaan (Mars), which have no authenticity,” the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here.
The threat of a “silent” liver disease epidemic looms over India, with the problem compounded by the absence of safe, reliable and affordable diagnostics – especially biopsies.
Now IndioLabs (IL), a Bangalore-based start-up, has come up with ‘BioScoop’, a cutting-edge, cost-effective procedure that could revolutionise the way a biopsy is done.
Clueless even almost a month after the brutal attack on a woman bank official at an unguarded ATM kiosk here, police on Monday increased from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.
Ever since the gory attack caught on CCTV footage sparked a nationwide outrage, police has formed different teams of 200 police officials to investigate the case and hunt the accused.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President G Parameshwara have left for New Delhi where they will attend a meeting with AICC leaders on Monday to discuss preparations for the Lok Sabha elections and also start the process of shortlisting party candidates.
The Income Tax department has attached all assets of cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines for failing to remit taxes amounting to Rs.350 crore, a senior official said Sunday.
“We have attached all assets of Kingfisher Airlines and are in the process of recovering its dues by sale and attachment of properties of the defaulter company,” IT official Lokesha said in a statement here.
Seeking to eliminate parental alienation of children of separated and divorced parents, a Bangalore-based NGO Saturday said it has joined hands with the city’s Men’s Rights Association (MRA) to work against gender-biased laws.
“Children’s Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting, Bangalore and MRA, Pune will jointly take forward the cause for children who suffer on account of their estranged parents due to increasing separation or divorce cases,” CRISP president Kumar V. Jahgirdar told IANS.
Imran Qureshi, a 31-year-old Pakistani, underwent stem cell therapy for hip joint at a private hospital here.
“Qureshi, a garment exporter from Karachi port city, has been treated for hip bone joint through stem cell therapy by our experts at the Bangalore Institute of Regenerative Medicine,” Live 100 Hospital chairman H.N. Nagaraj told reporters Thursday.
The disease, known as avascular necrosis in medical jargon, breaks the hip joint due to the cellular death of its bone tissues when blood supply is interrupted even in healthy people.
Bangalore’s realty market received the maximum private equity investment of nearly Rs 2,000 crore in the country during January-September 2013 with increased demand for leased office assets from institutional investors, according to property consultant Cushman & Wakefield.
Private equity (PE) investment in Bangalore rose by 79% to Rs 1,979 crore during the first three quarters of 2013 calendar year as compared to Rs 1,106 crore in the year ago period, C&W said in a report.
Indian IT bellwether Infosys Monday unveiled a new product platform that helps global brands in the FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) segment drive profitable growth in emerging markets.
“As our latest offering in the products, platforms and solutions space, the retail platform has been built to help global brands accelerate profitable growth in emerging markets,” Infosys chief executive N.R. Narayana Murthy said at a product preview here.
State Governor Hamsaraj Bharadwaj has once again applauded Chief Minister Siddaramaiah expressing satisfaction over his good governance. At the same time, the Governor has openly aired his resentment over the style of functioning of a few ministers in the Siddaramaiah cabinet.
The Governor has said he was happy over the performance of the CM who personally has no charges against him. “I have already told the CM several times about my displeasure over the functioning of a few ministers. But he has not yet been able to rectify the same,” Bharadwaj said.
Income tax raids on many cooperative housing societies across Karnataka led to unearthing of Rs.300 crore of unaccounted income, a senior official said Friday.
“Investigations, which began in September-October and are still continuing, revealed that many housing societies did not file income tax returns nor deducted TDS on payments made to developers,” income tax spokesman Lokesha said here.
Search and seizure operations also found the societies making huge cash payments to realty firms without proper receipts.
Buoyed by their first win against Sporting Clube de Goa, defending champions Churchill Brothers would be aiming to keep the momentum going as they face table toppers Bengaluru FC on Friday in their I-League clash.
Churchill Brothers, who won their first match against Sporting Clube de Goa from 10 matches, are placed at the bottom with seven points.
They will be looking once again at their new foreign recruits for a win against the Bangalore side, which presently occupies the top position along with Pune FC with 21 points each.
Karnataka government is planning to start Cauvery Fifth Stage scheme to cater to the drinking and industrial water needs of new areas of Bangalore city, PWD Minister H C Mahadevappa said today.
As the Cauvery Fourth Stage Phase II is nearing completion in some years from now, the government has been looking for an alternative source of water and thus envisaged Cauvery Fifth Stage project.
The Karnataka government plans to establish a ‘Nano Park’ here, which will have nano incubation centre, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said today.
“Our government proposes to establish a state-of-the-art Nano Park in Bangalore, which will have nano incubation centre along with necessary physical infrastructure and support system including common facilities,” Siddaramaih said at the inauguration of ‘6th Bangalore India Nano’ here.
“I’m sure this initiative will give a major fillip to the nanotechnology industry to blossom in the state in the coming years,” he added.
Complying with the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka government today shifted jailed Kerala-based PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani, a key accused in the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts case, to a private hospital here for treatment.
The apex court on November 18 directed the Karnataka government to shift Madani to Manipal Hospital, subject to the hospital agreeing to take him as a patient for treatment.
Police today detained for questioning two employees of a backwater island resort at nearby Pozhiyur in connection with rape of a 40-year-old Bangalore-based IT professional there last month.
According to police sources, both of them were migrant workers from a north eastern state and they were being questioned. Their antecedents were also being verified, the sources said.
The woman, a professional working with an IT company, was allegedly raped by two persons in the star-category resort in the wee hours on November 28.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday inaugurated a Rs.4,500 crore ($722 million) 1,000 km-long gas pipeline that connects Dabhol in Maharashtra to Bangalore in Karnataka. Reuters File Photo.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday inaugurated a Rs.4,500 crore ($722 million) 1,000 km-long gas pipeline that connects Dabhol in Maharashtra to Bangalore in Karnataka.
The project has been developed by the state-run Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL).