All the Congress legislators from Gujarat, who were camping at a private resort ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls, left Bengaluru in an early morning flight and reached Ahmedabad around 5 a.m. on Monday. As soon as they arrived, they were taken to a resort in Anand district. With the DGP of Gujarat having written to his Karnataka counterpart to […]
» Read moreAbhinav Srivastav, 31, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, has been arrested by the Bengaluru city police on the charge of accessing Aadhaar data, the police said in a statement. The arrest made on August 1 followed a complaint filed against him by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) last week. Srivastav, currently employed by ANI Technologies, which owns the Ola brand, […]
» Read moreIncome tax officials raided the Delhi residence of Karnataka minister D.K. Shivakumar on Wednesday and seized at least ₹5 crore in cash, according to officials in the Income Tax Department. There were no political orders regarding this raid,” the official added. “The investigative team has been planning this for a while. This is a part and parcel of investigations. Raids […]
» Read moreThe UIDAI has recently filed an FIR in Bengaluru against an individual for allegedly offering “unauthorised” Aadhaar-related services via an app. But the case does not involve breach of privacy or hacking of authority’s own database, CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said. The said app — against which action was initiated by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) — was […]
» Read moreUdupi Ramachandra Rao, the grand old man of Indian space programme, is no more. Professor Rao, 85, passed away in his Indira Nagar home in Bengaluru a little before 3 a.m. on Monday, a source in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)confirmed. Active almost until his last days, Professor Rao had been to his office in the Department of Space’s […]
» Read moreThe arrest of a few Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) employees on Thursday night by the police left thousands of Namma Metro commuters stranded on Friday as employees went on a flash strike and refused to begin operations. Namma Metro, which normally starts at 5 AM on both lines, did not open its shutters to the public and all […]
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