Author: Maqsood Maniyar

State govt repeats pitch to woo investments to districts

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-02-14 --

Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries and Infrastructure MB Patil called on industry leaders to invest in districts apar Read more...

Has Congress high command exerted itself on power sharing?

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-01-30 --

Bengaluru: The camps of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar continued to exchange barbs even as the Congress high command tried to calm passions. The latest rou Read more...

Sunday showers due to easterly trough, says IMD

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-01-20 --

Bengaluru The 5.2 mm of rain that pattered Bengaluru’s streets on Sunday was the result of an “easterly trough”, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has reveale Read more...

Hoping against hope: Will 2025 be the year of B'luru civic polls?

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-01-01 --

Bengaluru: This might just be the year when the nearly five-year wait for local body elections in Bengaluru finally ends. The last Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) electio Read more...

No dearth of 'nataka' in Karnataka politics

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2024-12-31 --

Major political developments that took place in Karnataka included everything from elections to cases of graft

LS polls: NDA surges ahead- The Natio Read more...

When the skies opened up...& North K'taka bore the brunt

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2024-12-31 --

The spot on National Highway 66 near Shirur town of Ankola taluk in Uttara Kannada district where a landslide took place, killing 10 people in its wake.

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Won’t get AI revolution with spending alone, say experts

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-02-03 --

Economist Narendra Pani said the Centre had little money to spend anyway, adding that intellectual capital and other input were needed to produce a chatbot like DeepSeek

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Indians yet to embrace Republican attitudes, say experts

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-01-27 --

Bengaluru: Political scientists argued that India was far away from becoming a true Republic, still treating democratically-elected representatives and even bureaucrats like an ari Read more...

Yogendra Yadav, Atheeq assert why history will be kind to Dr Singh

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-01-04 --

Speakers insist Singh balanced free market approach with welfare measures, handled political compulsions well

Bengaluru: Civil society members heaped pra Read more...

Siddu’s 2.5 years end in Nov 25’; DKS CM dream distant

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2025-01-01 --

Bengaluru: Perhaps the worst kept secret of Karnataka politics is that back in May 2023, the party state unit Chief DK Shivakumar accepted the Deputy Chief Minister’s post on Read more...

Healthcare under lens as 6 mothers die in Ballari

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2024-12-31 --

Bengaluru: The healthcare track record of Karnataka in 2024 was marred by six maternal deaths at the Ballari District Hospital and Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) Read more...

Manmohan’s legacy: Celebrating 'Jekyll', reckoning with 'Hyde'

  • By Maqsood Maniyar --
  • 2024-12-29 --

Bengaluru: The passing of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh elicited lofty eulogies, yet some have expressed reservations about the uncritical gaze with which he is being rememb Read more...