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Apple ramps up India footprint with new office and store dealsApple Inc. is significantly expanding its footprint in India, leasing nearly a million square feet of prime real estate in Mumbai and Benga...- Bengaluru’s heritage hotel checks into Radisson's global portfolioRadisson Hotel Group is growing in India. They have added St. Mark's Hotel Bengaluru to their Radisson Individuals brand. The hotel is in a...
- Karnataka CM orders arrests of RCB, KSCA executives; suspends Bengaluru Police Chief over stampedeFollowing a stampede at Royal Challengers Bengaluru's IPL victory celebration that led to 11 deaths, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ...
- Bengaluru stampede: FIR filed against RCB, event organizers, and KSCA for criminal negligenceFollowing a stampede at an IPL celebration in Bengaluru, Cubbon Park Police have filed an FIR against RCB, DNA, and KSCA. The Karnataka Hig...
- Bangalore Traffic Advisory: Check no parking zones, pick-up zones ahead of India vs NZ Chinnaswamy TestBengaluru City officials have announced special traffic arrangements from October 16-20, 2024, to manage congestion around M. Chinnaswamy S...
- From aerial to aqua: This Yoga Day, embrace new forms of traditional poses with a twistWheel yoga uses a wheel made of fibre and natural rubber to support the back.
- Wooden pews in Bengaluru's 155-year-old East Parade Church have slots to hold riflesThe church was meant for army stationed in the British cantonment.
- Cunningham Road: This Bengaluru street named after Scottish writer is home to premium realtyThe writer Francis Cunningham served as a secretary in the civil commission of Mysore under Sir Mark Cubbon.
- In 1886, five European women started Pete’s first hospital in BengaluruSt Martha’s Hospital also became a home for orphans and a school for young girls.
- Demolishing statues to renaming roads, here's Bangaluru's politics of uncomfortable historyMark Cubbon was the longest-serving commissioner of the erstwhile Mysore State and arguably the most-remembered British administrator in Be...
- Bengaluru cops clueless why parking is banned on Church StreetIt is about three months since the renovated Church Street was thrown open and the city police have started penalising citizens who park th...
- The LIC building is one of the last British Army-built stone structures on MG Road, BengaluruIt was built in the colonial style unlike the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers which followed the Tudor style.
- Dr Charles Smith’s 1847 facility for mentally-ill became NimhansApart from working at the Hospital for Soldiers, Peons and Paupers (where Bowring Hospital stands), he was the surgeon of the Mysore Commis...
- Cenotaph Monument: Pillar marking 1791's Siege of Bangalore was torn down 53 years agoThe cenotaph was demolished with official sanction on Oct 28, 1964.
- Date with History: In 1864, first train chugged from Cantonment to JolarpettaiThe railway line also aided relief work during the Famine of 1876-78.
- Date with history: A major administrator who made Mysuru a model stateHe was the longest-serving commissioner of Mysuru (1834 to 1860).
- The legend behind the iconic Bible Society in BengaluruThe Congregation set up the Bible Society in Wales on November 14, 1804 & then the Society was set up in Bengaluru in 1825.
- The Balabrooie guest house in Bengaluru reminded the British of the Isle of ManThe guest house built in the 1850s remains intact despite recent political pressure.
- Long-lost buildings in Bengaluru come back to life at photo exhibitionIn the past three decades, many heritage structures in Bengaluru and their stories have vanished without a trace.
- A date with history: Raj Bhavan was Cubbon's house before the Mysuru kingsBefore becoming the Raj Bhavan - the residence of the Rajyapal, the Governor - it was the power centre of the British in Bengaluru.
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