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Nominations for the Karnataka West Graduates' Constituency closed on a busy penultimate day, with Congress nominee Mohan Limbikai among five candidates and the BJP-backed S. V. Sankanur contesting a vote set for 23 October.
The authority rejected Karnataka's request to defer the CWRC direction and reaffirmed 3,500 cusecs a day at Biligundlu for 15 days. Farmer groups, Kannada organisations and the state's film industry have closed ranks against it.
Trains were restricted to Silk Institute and Yeshwanthpur from 8 am on Tuesday, and the Yeshwanthpur–Madavara stretch was suspended, before BMRCL restored full services at 8.45 am.
The facility on Global Axis is pitched as a place where enterprises move agentic AI pilots into production for mobility and manufacturing, rather than a research centre.
The opposition alleges the integrated solid waste management packages for the city's north and south zones went to one company for three decades despite Finance Department objections, and that the firm was blacklisted.
The Congress president who led the party to 135 seats in 2023 took the oath at Lok Bhavan on Wednesday afternoon, ending the Siddaramaiah era that began in May 2023.
The Karnataka chief minister left for Delhi on May 28 after submitting his resignation, and a senior party leader moved into clear contention for the post. The state faces a change of government weeks after its assembly election.
Six years without a council has left Bengaluru's wards without elected representation. The court's order sets a finish line for the first time, though the corporation has still to show it can reach one.
The state government has formally rolled back the instruction it issued in September 2022. The decision drew immediate criticism from the ruling party that introduced it and renewed protests from the organisations that opposed it.
Karnataka as a whole drew 66 per cent of its sustainable groundwater in 2025. The queue outside a BWSSB tanker office is what that ratio looks like at the ward level.
