Sanath Prasad
Reporter at The Indian Express
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Sanath Prasad
Initially set to be commissioned in 2021, the 18-km Yellow Line, connecting RV Road and Bommasandra via Electronic City, is marred by a rolling-stock supply crisis, leading to extensive delays. The coaches for the driverless Bengaluru Metro are manufactured by Chinese firm CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co Ltd, along with TRSL, as part of the Make-in-India Initiative. The Chinese firm won a Rs 1,578-crore contract in 2019 to supply 216 coaches to BMRCL.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Sanath Prasad
Following the Karnataka High Court’s recent order, bike taxi aggregator Rapido ceased operations in the state Monday. In a notification to its customers on the app, Rapido said, “Starting June 16, 2025, our Bike Taxi services in Karnataka will be paused in compliance with recent High Court orders.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Sanath Prasad
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday announced NEET UG 2025 results, wherein Karnataka registered a qualification rate of 58 per cent, a 5 per cent drop from last year. A total of 83,582 candidates out of 1.42 lakh who appeared from the state qualified this year, compared to 88,887 candidates out of 1.5 lakh last year (59 per cent), indicating a decrease of 5,305 qualified candidates. Nikhil Sonnad from Mangaluru topped the state with an All India Rank (AIR) 17 this year.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Sanath Prasad
Justice Rao observed that an interim relief could have been given to aggregators, provided the state government considered drafting a bike taxi policy. “However, in this case, the state government has clearly made a policy decision (of not being interested in framing a bike taxi policy),” he noted. The aggregators had appealed to the division bench seeking a stay on the single-bench’s order and an extension of the deadline to suspend bike taxis operations in the state.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Sanath Prasad
On Wednesday morning, the team’s management announced that they would hold a victory parade in an open bus from Vidhana Soudha to the stadium, roughly 1 km away, before an event at the stadium for which limited free passes would be available online. At 11:56 am on Wednesday, however, the traffic police announced that there would be no victory parade. Around 1:30 pm, the RCB team arrived at HAL airport and took a bus to the hotel before proceeding to Vidhana Soudha.
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