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If all goes as per the plan of the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP), citizens will be able to experience a day in the life of a traffic police personnel. The BTP is planning to launch a ‘citizen cop for a day’ initiative to provide real-time experience in managing peak-hour traffic and to gather suggestions for…
India’s agarbathi industry, pegged at close to ₹10,000 crore, has been witnessing an uptick in the consumption of herbal (natural) incense sticks, said Ambica Ramanjaneyulu, president of the All India Agarbathi Manufacturers’ Association (AIAMA). Mr. Ramanjaneyulu, who is also the managing director of Ambica Group of Companies, told The Hindu, “Currently herbal agarbathis accounted for…
Particpants at the Bengaluru Skill Summit 2025 on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Skilling is still treated as an extracurricular activity in India and yet to be treated as part of mainstream education, said B.V.R Subrahmanyam, CEO, NITI Aayog here on Wednesday. “Skilling is yet to be part of our country’s education system, unfortunately….
Karnataka has to restructure its academic curriculum to ensure that skill development starts in the classroom itself, said Sharanprakash Patil, Minister for Medical Education and Skill Development, here on Wednesday. Speaking at a panel discussion with his ministerial colleagues on the second day of Bengaluru Skill Summit, Dr. Patil said it was critical for the government,…
Following the alleged assault on a 34-year-old domestic help by the staff of the Varthur police station over allegations of theft, an inquiry has led to the suspension of three policemen. According to officials, on October 30, Priyanka Jhanwal, a resident of Sobha Dream Acres Apartment, lodged a complaint alleging that her domestic help, Sundari…
Chief minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and others releasing the Skill Development Policy 2025–32 in Bengaluru on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday unveiled Karnataka’s new Skill Development Policy 2025–32, here. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the Bengaluru Skill Summit, the Chief Minister said the policy came with…
The Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Ltd. (K-RIDE) has invited fresh tenders for the balance civil works of Corridor-2, also known as the Mallige Line, between Benniganahalli and Chikkabanavara. The project has been split into three separate packages to expedite completion of the long-delayed Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP). The decision comes in the wake…
The family of a patient with Juvenile Huntington’s Disease (JHD), a rare inherited disorder that causes progressive neuro-degeneration, donated his brain to NIMHANS for research on Monday. The doctors said, “This is the first instance of a JHD brain donation at the institute.” Last year, the NIMHANS Brain Bank received its first brain donation from…
UAS-B Vice-Chancellor S.V. Suresh inaugrating the India Mushroom Summit in Bengaluru on November 03, 2025. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The green revolution helped us achieve food security, but now we need to look at nutritional security, for which mushroom cultivation is both promising and key, said S.V. Suresh, Vice-Chancellor, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore…
One of the biggest futures in science is organocatalysis, (a type of catalysis where the catalyst in the chemical reaction is an organic compound), and with respect to climate change, “we are one catalytic reaction away from solving it,” said David MacMillan, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2021. He was speaking at the…
