'Obscene poses', flashlights and damaged plants: Why Bengaluru’s beloved Lalbagh may soon ban all photo shootsFollowing Cubbon Park's ban on film and wedding shoots, Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru is considering a similar restriction. The hor...
15 Jun, 2025, 06.49 PM IST
Rs 5,000 crore man shocked: India's IT capital Bengaluru’s iconic park refuses UPI, demands cash for receiptA tweet by Thyrocare founder Dr. A Velumani has sparked debate about India's digital progress. He expressed surprise that Bengaluru's Lalba...
23 Apr, 2025, 08.48 AM IST
Bengaluru bus conductor saves man from having his phone stolen by a thief; Here what happenedA BMTC bus conductor foiled a theft attempt at NIMHANS, alerting a passenger whose phone was almost stolen while boarding bus 343. The cond...
29 Jan, 2025, 05.55 PM IST
Bengaluru Metro issues service curtailment alert for three days. Check BWSSB's August water bill updateNamma Metro altered service schedules for the Reach-3 Extension Line between Peenya Industry and Nagasandra. Special tickets for the Lalbag...
13 Aug, 2024, 12.29 PM IST
15 persons fall ill due to leakage of chlorine gas in West Bengal's MurshidabadPeople fell ill and complained of suffocation and developed breathing distress following the leakage in the area and they were rushed to La...
16 May, 2022, 10.11 PM IST
Rotary Club of Bengaluru launches 45-day long ecology festival to mark beginning of World Earth DayThe 45-day long festival has been titled ‘Avani’.
20 Apr, 2019, 02.51 PM IST
The Lalbagh Flower Show which began in 1900s was inspired by the Chelsea Flower ShowThe aim of the show was to educate people and showcase the botanical riches of the garden.
25 Jan, 2018, 11.54 AM IST
Rs 2.7-crore ‘Niagara Falls’ checks in but historic Javaraya Falls is deadAn environmentalist aware of the project, who did not want to be named, called this a shoddy temporary fix. “Anyone can pump water through ...
08 Jan, 2018, 11.02 AM IST
Inside the 150-yr-old bungalow that once housed the horticulturist behind Bengaluru’s Garden City tagPart of the 10,000-sqft British-era building (among the first to get a heritage tag in the city) the bungalow houses the MH Marigowda Natio...
16 Nov, 2017, 03.56 PM IST
Century-old Krumbiegel Hall in Lalbagh collapsesThe lecture hall, named after Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel, a former superintendent of Lalbagh, was one of the oldest heritage structures insi...
14 Nov, 2017, 10.32 AM IST
Time for a makeover: Lalbagh's paintings get a fresh lease of lifeThe botanical paintings belong to an art genre called `Company School'.
02 Oct, 2017, 02.06 PM IST
Layers of Lalbagh: From rocks dating back to 3,000 mn years and a watchtower built by Bengaluru’s ‘founder’ Kempe GowdaThe Independence Day flower show that opens in Lalbagh today is just one of the several layers of history that this botanical reserve repre...
04 Aug, 2017, 01.53 PM IST
Date with History: Did you know that Hyder Ali commissioned Lalbagh for a Sufi Saint?Hyder's spiritual guide, Shuttari drew believers from far and wide.
13 Jul, 2017, 03.09 PM IST
When horticulturist Krumbiegel's granddaughter visited Bengaluru to see her ancestors' creationKrumbiegel was the brain behind the imaginatively conceived flower sequences around Lalbagh.
17 Jan, 2017, 11.18 AM IST
Date with history: All you need to know about the iconic Lalbagh's Glass House built in 1889The Lalbagh garden, spread across 25 acres today, was commissioned by ruler of Mysuru, Haider Ali, in 1760 and was completed by his son Tip...
11 Aug, 2016, 11.32 AM IST
City-touring Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah vows facelift for LalbaghSiddaramaiah's sixth city tour ended with a promise to provide a facelift to Lalbagh, the botanical garden with one of the largest collecti...
22 Jun, 2015, 10.42 AM IST
Hermann Krumbiegel, the German behind a blooming BengaluruThe name of Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel, a horticulturalist and town planner, remains restricted to a non descript road.
18 Jun, 2015, 12.51 PM IST