Here are the big stories from Karnataka today
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Karnataka Today newsletter: Bengaluru gets largest Boeing aerospace engineering facility outside US, and more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Center (BIETC) campus in Bengaluru on January 19. The state-of-the-art BIETC is built with an investment of ₹1,600 crore. Located in a 43-acre campus, it is the American aerospace major’s largest such investment outside the U.S.
Mr. Modi also launched the Boeing Sukanya Program that aims to support the entry of more girl children from across India into the country’s growing aviation sector. For young girls, the programme will create STEM labs at 150 planned locations to help spark interest in STEM careers.
Archaeologist and retired associate professor T. Murugeshi has yet again found a unique Veera Sthambha (pillar dedicated to a hero), this time at Chitteri in Ulturu Mudabettu village of Kundapura taluk in Udupi. According to Mr. Murugeshi, a Veera Sthambha is a rare type of hero-stone found across India.
Located in front of Nandikeshwara temple at Chitteri, the 6-feet-tall Veera Sthambha has four faces. Each face has three panels of 2 feet length depicting heroes equipped with swords and other sharp weapons attacking enemies riding horses and elephants. Sword-fighting, horse-fighting, an apsara (angel) taking a hero to heaven are also depicted.
Two labourers were killed and 20 others have been injured after an under-construction building, identified as the site of St. Agnes School, collapsed at Byadarahalli in Anekal in south Bengaluru. It is feared that a few workers are stuck under the rubble.
According to the initial findings of the Anekal police, labourers were carrying out centring work on the top when a part of the building collapsed. The workers fell down, along with the structure.
Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) has been recognised as the Best Airport of the Year at Wings India Awards 2024. At the award ceremony held in Hyderabad on January 18, the airport was also conferred with the ‘>25 MPPA Traffic Award’ under the airports category.
The ₹88.41 crore AMRUT scheme aims to eliminate Kavali's water scarcity, transforming the town’s infrastructure and services.
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck Sikkim's Mangan district; no casualties or property damage reported.
Telangana government updates building rules, increasing TDR usage, allowing more floors, and easing setback regulations for developers.
The escalating Israel-Iran conflict over the South Pars gas field threatens global energy security and impacts India's energy imports.
Delhi's weather forecast: clear skies, maximum temperature around 30°C, and moderate air quality with an AQI of 154.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju meets Tamil Nadu Bishops and pastors to discuss minority welfare and counter anti-BJP narratives.
Japan may consider minesweeping in the Strait of Hormuz post-ceasefire, says Foreign Minister Motegi, amid ongoing regional tensions.
Delhi University job fair guidelines excluding School of Open Learning students spark protests over equity and access to opportunities.
Rwanda's Fanny Utagushimaninde, at 15, becomes the youngest player to score a T20 international century.
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Currently, only the services in the 32 series stop at the section of the road adjacent to the Broadway terminus, temporarily closed on account of reconstruction work. Small traders association tells R. Ragu that ensuring the services now accommodated at the temporary terminus at Island Grounds stop at NSC Bose road would benefit visitors to the markets in Parrys
The Hindu photo feature on Aragam which is now known as book village. Photos and text by Imran Nissar
The silent reading movement in the Mylapore-Mandaveli-RA Puram area showed up first at Nageswara Rao Park around two years ago, with modest ambitions, when Balaji launched it along with other reading enthusiasts from the region. This initiative has now moved parks, and seems to set to get entrenched in one. Due to renovation work at Nageswara Park, the reading session became irregular. With the Nageswara Rao park work gaining more surface area, it had to be shifted elsewhere. And it seems set to continue with a newly discovered green patch in RK Nagar in the Sundays to follow.