Both Prime Minister Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will give keynote addresses at the 25th annual Bengaluru Tech Summit

The 25th edition of Asia's largest Tech Event, "Bengaluru Tech Summit," will kick off on November 16 with keynote speeches from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron. Taking place in person from November 16-18, this flagship event is being co-hosted by th...

Harsh Goenka posts a photo of a Bengaluru tea vendor that takes cryptocurrency payments

Harsh Goenka posted a photo of a tea vendor in Bengaluru who took cryptocurrency payments. Shubham Saini, a tea vendor, also responded to the industrialist's post.

Harsh Goenka posted a photo of a tea vendor taking bitcoin payments.

Shubham Saini, the tea vendor, was from ...

Supreme Court hearing, Bengaluru's Eidgah Maidan won't be hosting a Ganesh festival

As per today's Supreme Court judgment of "status quo" on a petition by the Karnataka Waqf Board, Hindu festival Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Bengaluru's Eidgah Maidan won’t be taking place. This broke the impasse that had developed since the state administration had in...

AMAZON INDIA EXPANDS FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE

HIGHLIGHTS

• Amazon India is expanding food delivery service.
• Operations are in Bengaluru.

Amazon India is expanding its food delivery service. E-commerce giant has scaled its food delivery service called Amazon Food, to 62 pin codes a...

CONSTRUCTION OF INDIA’S FIRST GREENFIELD EXPRESSWAY TO BEGIN SOON

HIGHLIGHTS

• Connecting Chennai and Bengaluru, the construction of first Greenfield Expressway is going to start soon.
• Initially plans were to have eight lanes in this expressway.
• Now the expressway plan has been downgraded to four lanes as t...

TESLA REGISTERS OFFICE IN BENGALURU

HIGHLIGHTS

• Tesla is set to start their operations in Bengaluru and is scouting for more locations in India.
• Tesla has also appointed three directors for India operations.

With the launch of Tesla's electric vehicle (EV) expected ...

BENGALURU VIOLENCE: TOTAL 206 ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE RIOTS

After the August 11 riots that managed to send shockwaves across the eastern part of Bengaluru city, the Bengaluru Police until now has arrested total 206 people. On Friday, nearly 60 more people were held in connection with the riots. Kaleem Pasha, husband of Congress corporator from Nagwara war...

BENGALURU RIOTS: ALL THE LOSSES WILL BE RECOVERED FROM RIOTERS SAYS KARNATAKA GOVT

Highlights

• The Karnataka state government led by the Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa termed this violent incident as a well planned act

• Karnataka Home Minister Basavraj Bommai said the loss will be recovered from those who have caused the damage

• Si...

BENGALURU VIOLENCE: 3 KILLED, 150 ARRESTED IN VIOLENCE OVER PROPHET MUHAMMAD POST

Highlights

• The nephew of Congress MLA Srinivas Murthy, Naveen has been arrested by the Bengaluru police

• Total 60 Bengaluru police personnel got injured while controlling the crowd said Commissioner of Police, Kamal Pant

• Karnataka Chief Minister B...

BENGALURU POLICE URGE YOUNG CITIZENS TO HELP IN EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF LOCKDOWN

In order enforce lockdown guidelines effectively, the Bengaluru City Police (BCP) on Tuesday decided to take help from the young citizen in the city of age between 18 to 45 to work as Civil Police Wardens for the purpose of effective enforcement of COVID-19 related guidelines in the capital city ...

INDIA’S COVID-19 TALLY SURPASSES 9 LAKH MARK, 28,498 CASES REPORTED IN 24 HOURS

• Current Total Cases: 906,752

• Total Deaths : 23,727

• Cumulative recoveries : 571,460

• Active cases: 311,565

• Top five states that has the maximum number of cases : 

Maharashtra: Cases 260,924, number of deaths 1...

BENGALURU: STRICT LOCKDOWN IMPOSED IN ALL THE HIGH DENSITY AREAS

Highlights

• Areas like KR Market, Siddapura, Kalasipalya and VV Puram have been declared as containment zone

• CM Yediyurappa said that in order to curtail the spread of COVID-19, strict measures must be imposed

• Bengaluru Urban district reporter mor...

‘AMAZON FOOD' THE NEWEST ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE IN INDIA

Highlights

• Amazon India’s app is showing that the service is live in selected areas in the Bengaluru

• Amazon has partnered with Box8, Faasos, Mad Over Donuts, Paradise Biryani and Fresh Menu

• Amazon Food aims at contactless delivery from hygi...

BENGALURU: 20 DUBAI RETURNEES TEST CORONA-POSITIVE

Highlights

• All the international passengers were brought back in a repatriation flight to Mangaluru that is part of the Government of India’s Vande Bharat Mission

• At present, the state of Karnataka has 1,032 cases of coronavirus

On Friday, the cit...

BENGALURU: AIR INDIA FLIGHT BRINGS BACK 323 INDIANS FROM LONDON

After a stopover in the national capital Delhi, 323 Indian passengers were brought back to Bangalore from London at around 4:47 a.m. on Monday in an Air India repatriation flight (1803).
According to the officials, all the passengers were screened and checked in order to see whether anyone...

BENGALURU: KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES PACKAGE WORTH Rs 1,610 CR

Highlights

• This relief package will provide benefits to all the people and businesses that are immensely affected by the coronavirus lockdown

• Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa stated that small self-employed individuals and farmers are among most affected

BANGALORE: KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT PLANNING TO REOPEN LIQUOR OUTLETS FROM MAY 4

Highlights

• All the liquor outlets, malls and other businesses might start again from next week

• Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa expressed his confidence over getting permission from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in order to restart economic activities

Accor...

BANGALORE: ALMOST 50 PERCENT OF COVID-19 PATIENTS HAVE RECOVERED TILL DATE

Highlights

• Total 35 patients of coronavirus infection have recovered out of 76 

• The recovery rate of Bangalore is much higher than other metro cities, though the number of cases here is drastically low in comparison

• Deputy CM of Karnataka, C...

Big leagues in football to aid India

The football craze has taken over the world and there have been absolutely no exceptions made, but the Indian football has been suffering a lot in this craze, the people who love football are there in India but the Indian football scene is somewhat questionable as the team has never been able to ...

Tech Summit in Bengaluru

There’s a new tech summit happening in Bengaluru which is organized by the state government, which has invited startups, companies, venture capitalists and students from across India to be a part of this summit. This summit will starting from 18th November and continue till the 20th of Nove...