Bangalore

Bangalore is the supercomputer capital of India. The new list released by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in December 2013 revealed that Bangalore has seven supercomputers, pipping Pune that has six.

Bangalore has beaten and Chennai with both cities having just one and two top supercomputers respectively. It even beaten Delhi, which has four if Noida is taken as part of the Delhi region. Hyderabad is doing well, having four supercomputers in the top-33 list.

Aam Admi Party (AAP) activists were allegedly attacked by a group of men near Bellandur, in HSR Layout, on Saturday evening. A cases against the unidentified attackers have booked by theHSR Layout police.

A team of AAP was busy with membership drive at Bellandur. A few persons arrived at the spot, wrangled with the workers, attacked them, tore the party’s banner and are absconding, according to AAP Karnataka State convenor Vijay V.

Central Crime Branch have arrested a private company employee on the charge of duping several people by promising them jobs in a well known software company.

According to police, Mukund T R, working as chief operating officer with Technologies Private Limited in Banashankari 3rd Stage, along with his partners in crime were arrested after a raid on his office.

His partners Naveen, Anil Deshmukh, Sandeep, Yeshwanth,Utkarsh Gupta, and Vijaykanth cheated several people promising jobs in IBM and are absconding.

On Friday, the CCB police arrested seven co-conspirator of notorious rowdy Korangu Krishna. Lethal weapons, an autorickshaw and three bikes were seized from them.

According to police,. they were planning to attack rival rowdy Chetan. The arrested have been identified as Narasimha, Ravikumar, Charankumar, Raghavendra, Manju, Prasanna and Basvaraj. Rajgopalnagar police have registered a case.

On Friday , Malesh, 38,a plumber by professional committed suicide at his residence in Muneshwara Block in Peenya night.

Accordin to police,the victim was a habitual drinker and said to be under heavy debt. There was no death note found. The Peenya police have registered a case.

A barbender fell to his death from the fourth floor of an under-construction building.

Bhima, 26, a resident of Bhavani Nagar near Banashankari, fell to his death from the under-construction commercial complex in Gururagahavendra Layout, JP Nagar 7th Phase, on Saturday while he was on his job.

According to JP Nagar Police, he rushed to a nearby hospital, doctors declared him brought dead. A case of negligence has been registered against the building owner and the contractor.

The Aam Aadmi Party headquarters in Bangalore is a scene of bustling activity. Nestled in a narrow dusty lane, a few steps away from the Cottonpet police station in central Bangalore, the head office sees at least 300-500 visitors every day, some curious and others hungry for change. Enthused by Arvind Kejriwal’s victory in Delhi, Bangaloreans are attending AAP meetings across the city and signing up in droves to join the party. “Anybody is better than the people we have had so far.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) increasingly demonstrates that it is becoming a party of contradictions, at least in Karnataka, as it tries to cash in on the strong national mood against corruption while depending on local leader B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is fighting several corruption cases, to shore up its declining fortunes in the state.

Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was taken back into the party to strengthen it ahead of the Lok Sabha election, BJP general secretary Smriti Irani said Saturday.

Irani is in Goa to oversee preparations for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s rally Sunday.

“Whatever needs to be done to strengthen the party will be done,” Irani told the media, when asked why a leader indicted in scandals has been taken back into the party.

Two doctors were dismissed and two others are suspended by the State government on Friday for medical negligence.

The doctors are from Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics (SGITO).While treating 3-year-old Mariyam Kousar they administered an overdose of anaesthesia due to which she suffered brain damage recently .

Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has said he is ready to contest in the upcoming general elections.

Earlier, Indian media was abuzz with speculation that the ruling Congress party could nominate the former software czar as its candidate for Bangalore (South) in the 2014 polls.

Nilekani said he is keen on fighting the elections, if given a ticket by the Congress Party.

“Yes, if I am given a ticket (for the polls), yes, I will contest,” he said.

Justifying his entry into politics, Nilekani said he wished to bring forth change in the country.

Situation turned violent on Friday night when local residents stoned at goods vehicle and attacked its driver allegedly for causing an accident killing a six-year-old girl on the spot at Gangondanahalli in Chandra Layout.

Mehroon was the daughter of Salawuddin and was studying at Vidya Sagar School.

The angry inhabitants was soothed by the local police and senior officers who immediately rushed to the spot, deployed additional force and brought the situation under control.

Infosys co-founder and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chairperson Nandan Nilekani on Friday said that he was ready to contest in the upcoming general elections.

Indian IT bellwether Infosys Ltd. has bounced back with double-digit (12 percent) revenue forecast this fiscal (2013-14) and revival in fortunes on return of its co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy as executive chairman.

Revising its guidance upwards once again, the global software major Friday said its consolidated revenue would grow 12 percent in dollar terms this fiscal (FY 2014).

The president of the BJP’s Kodagu district unit in Karnataka was Thursday shot at by unidentified assailants, police said.

M.P. Shuja Kushalappa was attacked in Virajpet, about 35 km from here.

He suffered an injury near the neck and was shifted to a hospital in Mysore, after treatment at a Virajpet hospital, Kodagu Superintendent of Police M.N. Anucheth told reporters.

A Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson said Kushalappa, brother of Madikeri BJP legislator M.P. Appachu Ranjan, was out of danger.

The relatives of Mariyam Kousar, staged a protest in front of the Town Hall on Thursday demanding that the findings of the committee that probed the charges of medical negligence be made public.

Mariyam Kousar,three-year-old who suffered brain damage due to alleged anaesthesia overdose at the State-run Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic.

The four doctors who were allegedly responsible for the child’s medical condition must be suspended, alleged people who had gathered near the Town Hall .

Vidyaranyapura police on thursday arrested Gayathri Reddy, 35, her husband Lakshmikanth, 40and their associate on a charge of cheating several people by promising them jobs with software companies.

The couple is from Nanjappa Layout, and their associate Krishna, 36, were running a fictitious firm, ‘Dream at Job’., According to police,“pocketed” Rs 90,000 each from 15 people, with a promise to place them in software companies,. Vidyaranyapura police detained them when one one of the alleged victims,named Madhusudhan, made a complaint.

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl was sexually abuse by a school van driver .Police arrested the van driver in connection with the the incident .According to police, the incident have occurred when the victim was returning home by the van from her kindergarten on Sarjapur Road on Tuesday.

The child, the only daughter of her parents, would go to crèche by the school van. Her parents live in Devarabeesanahalli. Her father is a chartered accountant, police sources said.

Karnataka is developing a new industrial hub at Chamarajanagar in the old Mysore region to attract investments from neighbouring Tamil Nadu, an official said Thursday.

“We have notified about 1,300 acres of land for acquisition at Chamarajanagar in the border district, which is closer to cities like Salem, Erode and Coimbatore in western Tamil Nadu, to develop textile and granite parks,” Additional Chief Secretary M.N. Vidyashankar told reporters here.

Karnataka Janta Party (KJP) president B S Yeddyurappa and two of his party MLAs formally rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Thursday.

Prahlad Joshi, president of the Karnataka unit of the BJP, warmly welcomed him and other members of KJP into the party. Speaking on the occasion, Yeddyurappa said that the decision to quit the BJP was wrong in hindsight, as it had helped the Congress to come back to power. He said the need of the hour for the BJP was to stay united and to aim for 20 Lok Sabha seats from Karnataka. (ANI)

An efficient power supply system is the key to economic growth and quality of life, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said Wednesday.

“Rising aspirations of our people can be met if our economy grows faster and at a sustained pace. An efficient power supply system is a key ingredient for economic growth and quality of life,” Siddaramaiah said after inaugurating the 11th edition of “Elecrama-2014”, a trade expo of electrical and electronics equipment here.

M Jaishanker Serial rapist and killer, had paid a hefty bribe to a jail official of Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara who provided him with a duplicate key to his prison cell and gave him the opportunity to ranaway from the Central Prison on the night of August 31, 2013, before being caught six days later.

Jaishanker was in four-day police custody till Wednesday. During an interrogation with him, the identity of the official who abeted him in the daring escape had revealed , said a senior police officer.

According to Malleswaram police ,the security guard, Satish, 23, and his aide Siddesh, 26, both from Davangere, had tried to loot cash from the ATM on December 24.

They used a concrete cutter and a gas cutter to break open the ATM but failed in their attempt.
Failure in the first attempt does not stopped them so they gave a second chance to their destiny only to try their luck at a bank branch and a jewellery shop. But they failed in their attempts again.

A builder’s house in Malleswaram was burgled with gold and diamond ornaments worth Rs 20 lakhs.

The house was looted in the absence of the builder.Kumar, a builder, and his wife Anitha Kumari, were in V V Puram at their relative’s place to attend a birthday function. On returning home around 9.30 pm, they found the house in muddle. The back door was broken and jewellery was missing from the closet, according to Malleswaram police.

With a slew of projects under implementation, Karnataka is set to become power surplus by 2017 from being energy-deficit over the years, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said Wednesday.

“We have initiated several projects to generate about 18,000 megawatts through conventional and non-conventional sources across the state over the next five years. Though they are at various stages of implementation, once completed, we will be a power surplus state by 2017,” Siddaramaiah said at a trade expo here.