
Bengaluru's power cuts are back on the calendar, and BESCOM is calling them preventive
More than 100 localities appeared on the January 21 shutdown list for a single substation job. The outage is eight hours. The calendar around it is the story.
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Latest Five candidates file for Karnataka's West Graduates' Council seat, with both camps in the fray
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More than 100 localities appeared on the January 21 shutdown list for a single substation job. The outage is eight hours. The calendar around it is the story.
Washington has invited India into a trusted stack spanning mines, fabs and AI compute. The binding constraint on Indian supply chains is not the signature. It is that the mines are not yet open.
Karnataka's joint session opened in high drama after Thaawarchand Gehlot refused to read the Cabinet's 43-page address. The chief minister says he is considering the Supreme Court.
The board announced separate squads on January 17 for three ODIs, three T20Is and a Test, with Shreyanka Patil and Bharti Fumali recalled to the T20I squad months after the World Cup squad was named.
The coldest January morning in three years, an IMD yellow alert, 54 delayed flights and a city-wide AQI in the very poor band: the three problems of a North Indian winter arrived on the same morning.
India's first space launch of 2026 lost a DRDO hyperspectral satellite and 15 co-passengers to an anomaly at the end of the third stage. The cause is not yet public.
The National Statistics Office's first advance estimate for 2025-26 puts real growth above the government's own range and nominal growth at a five-year low. Both facts are true, and only one of them flatters the year.
The price of a 19 kg commercial cylinder rose by Rs 111 in the metros from January 1. The 14.2 kg domestic cylinder did not move at all, and the ministry said that was deliberate.