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Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta has called for a more organised real estate sector in Bengal, arguing that fragmented market structures continue to hold back investment and orderly urban growth. He also urged the scrapping of legacy laws, including the urban land ceiling act, which he described as impediments to development.
Bengaluru-based music collective The Sadho Project is preparing to stage Songs of the Seeker on September 30, a performance built around the poetry of Kabirdas. The production aims to reframe the 15th-century mystic poet’s verses for contemporary listeners, underscoring the continuing relevance of devotional and philosophical traditions in India’s cultural life.
A new photo-illustrated essay book, 'Reel Duniya, Real Duniya: Cinema, Memory, and Leisure in Laggere,' examines how film culture is lived in a working-class neighbourhood of Bengaluru. Created by Eshwari and Mahima under the India Foundation for the Arts’ Project 560 programme, the book treats cinema not just as entertainment but as a social practice shaped by memory, access and everyday life.
The long-anticipated Bengaluru-Mumbai Vande Bharat Sleeper service is likely to begin operations this month, according to a Railway Board communication accessed by The Hindu. The train, numbered 27652 from KSR Bengaluru to CSMT and 27651 on the return leg, has reportedly been cleared on the basis of minutes from a February 16, 2026 meeting, signalling a major addition to India’s premium long-distance rail network.
Bengaluru’s Intelligent Traffic Management System has become a central test case for AI-led policing in India, drawing both praise for scale and scrutiny over accuracy. As the city’s traffic police expand camera-based enforcement, questions are intensifying over how violations are detected, how challans are issued, and how motorists can contest wrongful fines.
NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the West Bengal government and the United Nations Development Programme, convened a national workshop in Kolkata under the State Support Mission to advance budgeting for the Sustainable Development Goals. The meeting brought together policy officials and development partners to examine how public finance systems can better track, align and accelerate SDG outcomes. The workshop underscores a growing push to make development spending more measurable, targeted and accountable at the state level.
Bengaluru-based theatre company Talab will stage 'Nala Damayanti' at the Bangalore International Centre this weekend, bringing a contemporary theatrical reading of a classic Indian narrative to one of the city’s most visible cultural venues. Written and directed by IIM professor Gaurav Jakhu, the production underscores the growing overlap between academic, literary and performance circles in India’s urban arts scene.
A new photo-illustrated essay book, Reel Duniya, Real Duniya: Cinema, Memory, and Leisure in Laggere, examines how film culture is lived in a working-class neighbourhood of Bengaluru rather than merely consumed on screen. Created by Eshwari and Mahima under the India Foundation for the Arts’ Project 560 programme, the book blends visual storytelling and local memory to document cinema as a social practice shaped by class, access and everyday leisure.
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