BMTC conductor arrested for assaulting female passenger over ticket dispute

BMTC conductor arrested for assaulting female passenger over ticket dispute

: The Siddapura police arrested a 35-year-old Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) conductor on the charge of assaulting a 24-year-old private firm employee over a ticket row on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Honnappa Nagappa Agasar attached to depot number 34 Kothnoor Dinne, is conductor with bus number 368 plying from Bilekahalli towards Shivajinagar. According … Read more

The legal dispute over Varanasi, Mathura mosques | Explained

The legal dispute over Varanasi, Mathura mosques | Explained

Devotees line up to enter the Kashi Vishwanath temple next to the Gyanvapi mosque (background) in Varanasi on February 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, is once again in focus, albeit in a context in which its objectives are being ignored. Civil suits … Read more

Karnataka-Maharashtra dispute | Invisible boundaries, visible apathy

Karnataka-Maharashtra dispute | Invisible boundaries, visible apathy

Parthenahalli village, located on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border, is the last large settlement on the Athani-Jath road before the crossover into Gugwad village in Maharashtra. The signboards of shops in these villages are in both Kannada and Marathi. Sadashiv Jadhav runs a plant nursery in a portion of his three-acre sugar cane farm. He has one … Read more