DK Shivakumar vows Dec end GBA polls as SC grants final extension. NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Supreme Court on Friday extended the deadline for conducting elections to 369 wards across five city corporations under Greater Bengaluru Authority to Dec 31, 2026, accepting Karnataka’s argument that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls has created logistical challenges.Granting…
Bengaluru: The wait for Bengaluru’s long-pending civic body elections is set to get longer. Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has moved the Supreme Court, seeking a four-month deferment of polls to the city’s five corporations covering 369 civic wards, citing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across Karnataka.The application, filed by the GBA…
Bengaluru: BMTC has denied the claims that it has increased the price of ordinary bus monthly passes.In a press release Monday, the corporation stated that the monthly pass for travel in ordinary buses within city limits continues to cost Rs 1,200. It explained that its Rs 1,500 monthly pass includes services operating in the extended…
Bengaluru: In a sharp rebuke to the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), now known as Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), Karnataka high court has directed the civic body to issue Transferable Development Rights (TDR) certificates within three months to landowners whose property was taken and used for road formation more than a decade ago.Justice M…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court has ruled that the erstwhile BBMP, now Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), is not empowered to compel the relinquishment of privately owned land free of cost for widening a road under the Master Plan.Justice Suraj Govindaraj made the observation while allowing a petition filed by Bengaluru resident M Shashikumar.“If the respondents…
Congress festoons city ahead of DK Shivakumar’s swearing-in Bengaluru: Celebrating the swearing-in of DK Shivakumar as chief minister of Karnataka, Congress workers and supporters have put up banners, buntings, and welcome arches across the city.However, Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) and city police are said to have denied permission for the installation of towering cutouts of…
