Police foil bid to rob jewellery shop; gang hurts constable, home guard
A police constable and a home guard were injured while trying to apprehend an armed gang that attempted to break into a jewellery shop in Ramanagaram in the early hours of Thursday. The gang fired...
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KSRTC launches 637 top-end buses for urban travel in 18 cities and towns
Commuters in as many as 18 towns and cities in the state can soon travel on the brand new high-end buses of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC). Chief Minister Siddaramaiah formally...
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Reduction in forest area has led to deficit rainfall, says IISc study
The state has received deficit rainfall this season. This is not just because of global warming and el Nino effect, but also because of change in land use, especially reduction of forest cover.A recent...
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413 brothers, sisters set Guinness record with rakhis
It was a one-of-a-kind Raksha Bandhan celebration in the city. On Thursday, 413 brothers and sisters tied the sacred thread rakhi to each other at National High School Grounds in Basavangudi and...
View Article9 Palike officers booked for allowing encroachments appear before BMTF
Nine Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike officials against whom cases were registered for allowing structures to come up on stormwater drains, appeared before the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force...
View ArticleHC dismisses PIL seeking stay on demolitions
The High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to stay the ongoing demolitions on stormwater drains.A division bench comprising Chief Justice S K Mukherjee...
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BDA forms sites on edge of stormwater drains
While the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is cracking down on the encroachers of stormwater drains across the city, it failed to check that the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) had...
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Houses, wedding halls razed in RR Nagar
Continuing the drive against buildings on stormwater drains, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Thursday demolished three buildings at Halagevaderahalli in Rajarajeshwari Nagar...
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Top companies in Byrasandra lake encroachers' list
A Karnataka High Court commissioner's report has confirmed encroachment of Byrasandra lake and identified Bagmane Tech Park, Congnizant Technologies Pvt Ltd and Electronics and Radar Development...
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Prisoners hurt as two groups clash in Central Jail
There was tension for a while inside the Bengaluru Central Prisons, Parappana Agrahara, after two groups of prisoners attacked each other on Friday. Krishna and his associate were injured in the...
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Patient dies as ambulance rear-ends bus
A woman was killed on the spot and five others were injured when the ambulance in which they were travelling hit a private bus from behind near a toll collection centre at Nagasandra on Tumakuru Road...
View ArticleAuto driver killed by aides over share in booty, say cops
A 32-year-old auto-rickshaw driver, who was part of a gang of petty thieves, was murdered by his accomplices when he demanded a higher share in the booty, police said. The incident occurred at Vinobha...
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Buses collide near level crossing, three injured; train services hit
Three passengers were injured in a collision between two buses at Vaderahalli level crossing near Ramanagaram on Friday morning. The injured were rushed to BGS Rotary Hospital in Ramanagaram and are...
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Amnesty event: cops question ABVP leader, two others
The Bengaluru police on Friday questioned three people, including Jayaprakash, the organising secretary of the ABVP's Bengaluru unit, in connection with 'Broken Families', an event that was organised...
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Police lathicharge ABVP activists, 20 injured
Around 20 students and ABVPworkers were injured, some of them seriously, when the police resorted to lathi charge to disperse a group of protesters which attempted to picket the Amnesty International...
View ArticleCM defends BDA, says sites formed on dead lakes
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday defended the Bangalore Development Authority for allotting sites on some lakebeds stating that the waterbodies had lost all characteristics of lakes.Replying to...
View ArticleNew board chiefs to be named soon
The state government will take up the process of appointing chairpersons to various boards and corporations soon, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said.Siddaramaiah told reporters in Bengaluru the 18-month...
View ArticlePanel to decide on Byrasandra lake encroachment
Legislative Assembly Speaker K B Koliwad on Friday said the committee on lake encroachments will soon take a decision on the issue of encroachment of Byrasandra lake in Bengaluru.The committee has...
View Article'Citizens For Change' at Mahalakshmipuram today
'Citizens for Change', the citizens' connect initiative of Deccan Herald and Prajavani, comes to Mahalakshmipuram, north Bengaluru, on Saturday.Residents of Mahalakshmipuram Assembly constituency can...
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Kumaraswamy dares CM to raze homes of netas, officials
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Friday dared Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to order demolition of illegal buildings of politicians and IAS and IPS officers at the posh Dollar's Colony and JP...
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