Bala Chauhan

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan

BENGALURU: Karnataka ranks on the top among 18 states in India as per the latest India Justice Report (IJR) -- country's only ranking of states on the delivery of justice. In its fourth edition, the IJR 2025, which was released on Tuesday, Karnataka is the only state to meet reservation quotas for SC, ST and OBCs in both police and judiciary. At just 1.2%, the state police has the lowest officer-level vacancy among all large states and has the highest number of paralegal volunteers in the country.

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan

BENGALURU: A study by the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, and the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad has found higher concentration of dissolved lead (dPb) in the northern and central Indian Ocean (IO), which is much higher (23–114 pM) compared to other ocean basins such as the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, with clear a north-south decreasing gradient.

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan

He was just 30 years old and had not studied beyond Class 8. Yet, Vijaykumar planned the biggest and most daring bank heist in Karnataka with meticulousness and rehearsed it to such perfection with his gang of five that it ended up taking Karnataka police five months and a cross-country chase to nab them. The heist involving 17.7 kilograms of pledged gold worth Rs 13 crore took place on October 28, 2024 at the State Bank of India (SBI) branch, Nyamati in Davangere district of Karnataka.

2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan

BENGALURU: Karnataka has once again taken the lead in setting up the first Cyber Command Centre in the country. It becomes the first state to set up a comprehensive cyber command that will look into cyber security, cybercrime, ransomware, stalking, online crimes against women and children, sextortion, cyber frauds, including digital arrest, deepfakes, identity thefts, hacking, data breaches, outreach, disinformation, etc.

3 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan

BENGALURU: Ever since the AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami and Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi last week, there have been two 'existential' questions swirling around the saffron party and the AIADMK. Will the BJP replace its party president K Annamalai to placate an AIADMK that had come out of the NDA alliance in September 2023 over the former's targeted criticism of its ideological leaders – CN Annadurai and J Jayalalithaa?