BBMP officials suspended for issuing khata illegally
The BBMP commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad suspended six BBMP officials and repatriated the joint commissioner of Rajarajeshwarinagar zone Dr Veerabhadrappa for issuing khata to 14 persons illegally.The...
View Article'People's role must to improve urban governance'
The magnitude of corruption has exploded in the last three decades and huge amount of money that was looted from the exchequer could have funded major schemes for the poor, said former Lokayukta...
View ArticlePUC student killed in accident
An 18-year-old student was killed and his three classmates were injured in a road accident when they were returning home after writing second PUC examination on Thursday afternoon. The incident took...
View ArticleNigerian's death mystery uncovers SIM card racket
There is a twist in the mysterious death of a purported Nigerian national, Ifeanyi Madu. The Bengaluru police who seized his phone say they have stumbled upon a SIM card racket in Karnataka whose...
View ArticleMan chased, hacked to death in public
A 25-year-old man was murdered in full public view near the APMC Complex in Sathanur in Kanakapura on Friday. The deceased, Chandu alias Ambode, was returning home on a two-wheeler when a group of...
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Frothing Varthur lake causes traffic snarls
Heavy froth in Varthur lake on Friday morning spread all over the road near Virginia Mall causing traffic snarls on Whitefield Road connecting HAL Airport.People drove cautiously fearing skin and...
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Serial peeping Tom resurfaces in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, cops on lookout
Police are hot on the trail of a serial peeping Tom believed to be active in BEML Layout in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, west Bengaluru. The man, said to be mentally unstable, was seen scaling the compounds...
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Homemaker held for burgling gold from neighbours' houses
The North division police have arrested 11 people and solved 41 cases of house burglary theft, dacoity, chain-snatching and bike thefts. The police also recovered property worth Rs 72 lakh. In one...
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Forest officials defend staff in shooting case
A day after the forest staff opened fire and killed a suspected poacher, locals living in and around Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS), Kanakapura, have filed a murder complaint against the forest...
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ATM attack victim identifies her assailant
Jyothi Uday, the victim of the 2013 ATM kiosk attack, on Friday identified her assailant Madhukar Reddy at an identification parade at the Parappana Agrahara central prison in the presence of the...
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Palike cracks the whip, seizes eight tonnes of banned plastic
The officials of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board on Friday launched a crackdown on the shops and commercial establishments selling banned plastic. The...
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Metro man meets CM over Nilambur-Nanjangud rly line
Principal Adviser to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, E Sreedharan, met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday, to discuss a joint survey for the proposed Nilambur-Nanjangud railway line.The railway line,...
View ArticleRailway staff set to be trained to be courteous
Railway staff in Bengaluru division are set to go suave in the coming days as the railway authorities are training them in soft skills, including stress management and meditation.Additional Divisional...
View ArticleOne more held for BJP man's murder
The Hoskote police have reportedly arrested a man in connection with the murder of BJP leader Srinivas Prasad alias as Kithaganahalli Vasu (45) in Anekal on March 14. The suspect, Satish (29) is a...
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Hit Kannada novella goes to UK in April
Ghachar Ghochar, a slim, ironic novel about a middle-class Bengaluru family rising to affluence, is hitting the stands in the United Kingdom soon.Vivek Shanbhag, the author, is going on a book tour...
View ArticleGuv rejects proposal to shift RGUHS to Ramanagaram
Governor Vajubhai Vala has not agreed to the shifting of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health (RGUHS) administrative campus to Ramanagaram. In his letter dated March 14 to Dr K S Ravindranath, vice...
View ArticleA week on, Africans identify dead Nigerian
Nearly a week after the suspicious death of the African in Byrathi Cross, which the police claimed to be an accident, African community members came forward to identify the deceased formally on...
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Another Northeastern man assaulted over petty issue
Close on the heels of the assault on Higio Gungtey, a youth from the Northeast who was made to lick his landlord's shoe, another incident of assault on a Northeastern man has come to light in Mico...
View Article2 unidentified bodies found in Kengeri, police see a pattern
Two unidentified bodies have been found in as many locations in Kengeri, west Bengaluru. While one body was found in a stormwater drain, another was spotted on a vacant land. Passersby found the first...
View Article24-year-old youth killed in 'hit & run' case near ORR
A 24-year-old youth was killed in a road accident near Bhima Jewellers on the Outer Ring Road near Banaswadi in the early hours of Saturday.The deceased is Balu, a resident of RT Nagar and a native of...
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