BANGALORE: Karnataka got a festival gift on Friday when the Centre approved renaming 12 cities, including Bangalore and Belgaum.

Bangalore's new name will be Bengaluru. Mangalore will be renamed Mangaluru, and Mysore will become Mysuru. Bellary will be called Ballari in official records, while Belgaum will be renamed Belagavi. Hubli will become Hubballi. The new names of other cities are Tumakuru (Tumkur), Vijapura (Bijapur), Chikkamagaluru (Chikmagalur), Kalaburagi ( Gulbarga), Hosapete (Hospet) and Shivamogga (Shimoga).

First, there was a fever, along with headaches, diarrhoea, and muscle ache. Few people, or the doctors they visited, paid much attention: the symptoms suggested nothing that couldn’t be handled with paracetamol and immodium. But then came the tremors, mental confusion, seizures and coma. Every third person who developed the symptoms was headed towards a sudden death. Within weeks, the toll had reached 300.

As India faces the prospect of being hit by the global Ebola epidemic, last year’s outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis stands as a grim reminder of ground realities. The central government has announced a slew of measures to protect citizens from the feared disease — and yet, the country remains short on protective equipment, testing labs and professional training.

A 65-year-old woman was set on fire by three men in Babhulgaon near Yeola, about 85km from Nashik, on Thursday night for not voting the candidate of their choice.

The three have been arrested and sent to police custody.

In her mid-30s, she takes care of her father’s business. She is based in Lucknow, is stylish and a crazy Apple fan, grabbing each device of the iconic brand as and when these reach India, sometimes even before that.

On October 7, she paid close to Rs 14 lakh to a distributor of Apple to pre-book 21 units of the iPhone 6 Plus. As the clock struck midnight on Thursday, she took the delivery as Apple started selling the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus officially in India.

Tata Consultancy Services, the country’s largest information technology services provider, will hire 35,000 from college campuses for 2015-16, for which it will visit 350-400 institutes. This is higher by 10,000 from the campus hiring it did for FY15.

TCS is the only IT company so far that has announced its FY16 hiring target numbers.

Axis Bank, the country’s third largest private sector bank, has reported a 18 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 1,611 crore in the July-September quarter, as compared to Rs 1,362 crore in the same quarter of the previous financial year, helped by higher net interest income and other income.

The net profit was in line with Street estimates. A Bloomberg consensus estimate was Rs 1,610 crore. However, it was three per cent lower than the Rs 1,667 crore in the June-ended quarter.

IT majors Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and HCL Technologies on Friday witnessed their biggest single-day share price drop in five-and-a-half years, after the September quarter earnings of the two companies failed to meet analysts’ estimates. TCS shares fell 8.73 per cent to Rs 2,444.9 apiece, while that of HCL Technologies dropped nine per cent to Rs 1,505.

TCS, India’s largest company in terms of market capitalisation, saw its value erode by Rs 47,000 crore and its market capitalisation fall below the Rs 5-lakh crore-mark. Tata Sons, which owns nearly 74 per cent in TCS, saw nearly Rs 35,000 crore worth of its holding get shaved off.

The Supreme Court today granted bail to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa today in the disproportionate assets case.

Three aides, who were imprisoned along with her, were also given bail.

Jayalalithaa, who was denied bail by the Karnataka High Court following her conviction in a four-year sentence in the graft case, had moved the Supreme Court for bail on October 9.

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, India’s largest passenger vehicle maker, plans to develop a mini crossover—a vehicle built on a car platform and possessing the features of a sports utility vehicle (SUV)—for customers seeking higher ground clearance that allows them to travel in greater comfort on pot-holed city and rural roads.

Maruti, the Indian unit of Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp., wants to put on the roads a vehicle that would be among the country’s most affordable in its class, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plan who declined to be named.

The Supreme Court will today hear the bail plea of jailed former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in connection with her involvement in a disproportionate assets case after an apex court bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu had on Monday posted the case for hearing on Friday.

Jayalalithaa, who was denied bail by the Karnataka High Court following her conviction and a four-year sentence in the graft case, had moved the Supreme Court for bail on October 9.

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