Latest Devanahalli News & Updates

Chikkaballapur (Karnataka), May 5 (IANS) A shocking incident linked to an alleged extramarital affair was reported on Tuesday near Jinke Bacchahalli near Doddaballapura town in Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka, where both a woman and her alleged lover have died.The deceased have been identified as Sujatha and Ramanjinappa. The police investigations have revealed that Ramanjinappa had burnt Sujatha alive and later fearing arrest, killed himself.According to police, the deceased woman, 35-year…

Bengaluru, Feb 28 (IANS) A shocking case has emerged from a residential educational institution in Karnataka’s Devanahalli, where the school’s owner and his wife have been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The allegations involve the repeated sexual harassment of minor students and a subsequent cover-up involving illegal confinement.According to police, the primary accused, identified as Dhananjay, is the owner of the residential school and notably had ser…

Bengaluru, Feb 13 (IANS) In a tragic incident, seven people were killed in a road accident early Friday morning near M. Sathyavara village in Hoskote taluk of Karnataka’s Bengaluru Rural district.The accident occurred on the Hoskote-Dabaspete National Highway and involved a canter truck, a motorcycle and an XUV car.According to preliminary police reports, the car, travelling from Kolar towards Devanahalli, first collided with a bike which was moving ahead of it. The driver allegedly lost control…

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The electronics sector is creating large scale blue-collar jobs for women in India, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, on Monday.He said this, referring to reports on Taiwan-based company Foxconn onboarding nearly 30,000 employees — nearly 80 per cent women — at its new iPhone assembly facility in Bengaluru, within just eight to nine months.In a post on social media platform X, Vaishnaw noted that “a women-led mega factory…