BANGALORE CITY News (BENGALURU NEWS)

Craftsmen gathered in Bangalore from across the country are popularising eco-friendly traditional artwork, with their raw material ranging from palm leaves to the roots of trees to cane.

A group of sex workers from across the country at a conclave here Wednesday demanded legalization of their profession to end incidences of violence and discrimination against them.

State-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) will soon make India's parliament house a highly protected place with its hi-tech electronic gadgets, a top official said Wednesday.

Enough is enough, is what a group of Bangaloreans seems to be saying on International Anti-Corruption Day observed Wednesday. They have pledged to fight corruption which is rampant in public life.

India will soon have more home-grown Doppler radars deployed at strategic locations across the country for weather forecast and climatic conditions, a space scientist said Wednesday.

Pool your cars, ride bicycles and own trees. That is the message going out from Bangalore's green groups as the Copenhagen climate summit progresses.

Indian Railways will operate a Duronto (quick service) train between Bangalore and Howrah in West Bengal soon.

The Indian Railways will run 2,872 special trains across the country during summer to clear the extra rush of passengers during the holiday season, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced Tuesday.

Around 1,000 Indian and international artists from diverse genres like art, craft, dance, music, theatre and films will celebrate the spirit of this city with the 10-day long 'Bengaluru Habba' from Friday.

Nisha P., 22, brews coffee at a popular coffee outlet here. Murali C., 28, works as systems operation lead specialist in an IT company in this tech hub. Not a big deal unless one realises Nisha is hearing impaired and Murali, visually challenged.

Finnish mobile handset major Nokia will fund four Indian software developers under its $10-million joint open screen project fund with Adobe for developing multi-screen infotainment applications, a company official said Monday.

Liquor baron and chairman of UB Group Vijay Mallya Monday entered into a strategic alliance with leading Dutch brewer Heineken NV to distribute its beer in India.

Leading power and automation technology group ABB Monday said it has won an order worth Rs.506 crore from Bangalore Metro Rail Corp to provide power solutions for the city's proposed metro network.

Beaten in all elections since 2004 in Karnataka, the Congress appears to lack the confidence to take on even a faction-ridden Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on its own in the Dec 18 elections to 25 legislative council seats.

The team of Girijashankar Joshy and Srikanth Gowda held firmly to their overnight lead to finish with total penalties of four minutes, 40 seconds, and win the professional class and the overall title in the Maruti Suzuki Dakshin Dare Motorsports Rally.

Leading infrastructure developer GVK Power and Infrastructure has acquired 17 percent in Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) from Larson and Toubro (L and amp;T) for Rs.686 crore (Rs.6.86 billion), the company said Sunday.

Around 14,000 Bangaloreans, including 3,000 physically challenged people, Saturday participated in the fifth edition of the annual Bengaluru Walkathon 2009 to create awareness about people with disabilities.

Karnataka police Saturday began interrogating the two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, handed over to India by Bangladesh Wednesday, on their role in terror attacks in the tech hub in 2005 and 2008.

A group of Bangalore students is all set to educate world leaders gathering in Copenhagen for the Dec 7-18 climate change summit through a play on threats and challenges to environment worldwide.

A software engineer with Infosys Technologies Ltd was arrested late Friday for allegedly molesting a French woman at Mysore, a senior police official said.

A 100-year-old ritual practised in a Karnataka temple of tossing babies from the temple roof to honour a vow taken by the parents has prompted the authorities to say that the practice would be banned.

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co (EADS), which manufactures civil and military aircraft, communications systems, missiles, space rockets and satellites, has commenced research operations here.

Girish Kasaravalli's debut film 'Ghatashradhdha' has found place in the T20 of Indian Cinema list. The films were chosen through a contest at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The director is excited by the development.

The Kaiga atomic power plant unit, where drinking water was found contaminated with radioactive element in the last week of November, Thursday resumed power generation after the completion of its routine biennial maintenance work, a top plant official said.

On the occasion of World Disability Day Thursday, persons with disabilities in Karnataka asked the state government to implement the three percent reservation of jobs in all government departments to 'empower the disabled population'.