Bengaluru: With the Government likely to announce further lockdown relaxations in districts where COVID cases are less, including Bengaluru city, following the end of the current lockdown on June 21, the State-run BMTC (Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation) is ready to operate buses in Bengaluru city limits from June 21, with a set of COVID rules…
Primary contact of BMTC staff visits Nanjangud Rural Police Station; premises sanitised, barricaded Mysore/Mysuru: One more person tested positive for COVID-19 on June 16 (but was reported on June 17), taking the total active positive in Mysuru to 15. The victim is 35-year-old male patient (P) 7553. An employee of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC),…
Bengaluru: Thousands of employees of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) were charmed by Managing Director C. Shikha on Tuesday, after a video of her test-driving a Volvo bus went viral. Shikha had served as the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru for three-and-a-half-years and was transferred on Aug. 10, 2016. Shikha is the first IAS officer in…
Bengaluru: Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) and Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) had organised a function at Town Hall here yesterday to present Nrupatunga Award to noted Novelist Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 7 lakh. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Bhyrappa opined that literature like music should be clear and…
Mysuru: The Devaraja Traffic Police have yesterday arrested a man who had caused a road accident that killed a two-wheeler rider three years back and had not undergone punishment for the same. The person even had managed to secure a job in as a driver with Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) in Bengaluru by withholding…
Bengaluru: The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) had to cough up nearly 100 times the penalty it had levied on a senior citizen for no fault of hers. The senior citizen is 61-year-old Manjula, wife of G. Venkatesh Murthy, a resident of Somanahalli in Bengaluru South. She received the compensation after three years. A Consumer…
This Dasara, tourists might have an opportunity to go on a city tour in open-top double-decker buses. The Tourism Department is in talks with Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) to either offer buses to the Department or operate such buses on their (KSRTC) own. Around four open-top double-decker buses were introduced in Bengaluru by…
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