Police enhanced security and stepped up vigil to ensure peaceful celebrations of the 65th Republic Day Sunday in the city and across the state.
“We have deployed about 2,000 of our personnel across the city and are keeping a close watch on the movement of people and vehicles to prevent any untoward incident and maintain law and order for the Republic Day event,” Bangalore Police Commissioner R. Aurodakar told IANS Saturday.
A happy moment for Bangalore, as it is the first city in the country to provide free Wi-fi services to the people. The “Namma Wifi” service launched here on Friday can now be accessed at five different locations. Soon after two months, it will be extended to 10 other areas.
Brigade Road, M G Road, bus stations at Yeshwanthpur, Koramangala and Shanthinagar and CMH Road in Indiranagar are the five locations where the service can be accessed.
A man’s body was found hanging from a tree near Jeevan Bima Nagar police station on Thursday night.
According to the police the person, aged around 35, has North-Eastern features. However, no fine points were found to reveal his identity. Passersby said they had seen him roaming in the streets a couple of days ago.
On thursday night, he climbed the tree and hanged himself with a cable wire, the police suspect. Around 12.30 am, a two-wheeler rider noticed the body and alerted the police.
A 40-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her two relatives over a property dispute in front of her ailing father in Cottonpet police limits on Friday evening.
The victim was identified as Geetha, was a resident of K Veerabhadrappa Lane, Akkipet.
According to police, her two relatives – Narendra Kumar and Jithendra surrendered before the police hours after the murder and said that they hacked her to death due to a property dispute.
The death of a police official in a gunbattle with a criminal in Gulbarga dominated the proceedings of Karnataka Assembly today, with BJP members trooping into the well of the House, forcing an adjournment.
Soon after the Question Hour, Opposition BJP Leader Jagadish Shettar demanded a CBI probe into the killing of sub-inspector Mallikarjun Bande during a raid along with other police officials on the hideout of alleged contract killer Munna Darbadar who shot at him.
Bande died of bullet wounds at a hospital in Hyderabad, where he was shifted from Gulbarga for advanced treatment.
Tech-savvy Karnataka government is offering free Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) to citizens of the state capital to access internet and stay connected with their near and dear ones on social media.
Touted to be the first of its kind in the country, the facility – Namma Wi-Fi (802.11N) will allow citizens to use smart-phones, tablets, net-books, laptops and other mobile devices to connect to internet seamlessly when they are around M.G. Road and Brigade Road in downtown or at Shantinagar or Yeshwantpur bus terminals and at upscale Indiranagar in the city’s eastern suburb.
Making paper planes is more than just a creative pastime for eight-year-old Arnav Pawar. Unlike kids of his age, he has made over 50 paper replicas of different models of planes which have made to the Guinness Book of World Records.
It all started two months before when Arnav began making paper planes as a pastime. With the help of some iPad applications, he take in hand to understand everything from each model’s velocity to thrust and aerodynamics.
International Airport police on thursday arrested a Russian woman and her friend for possessing a satellite mobile phone. However, they were released after completing the legal formalities.
The police arrested Volga D, 51, and her friend after a satellite mobile phone was found in their bag. Volga told the police that she was unaware of the Indian law that bans carrying such a set.
A fine of Rs 100 was imposed on them and produced them before the court which released them, said the police.
On Wednesday, an unscientific road hump together with reckless driving of an autorickshaw driver resulted in the death of his six-year-old son at Kaverinagar at K R Puram .
Shiva, a labourer by profession, who also drives an autorickshaw, lost his only son Nanda when the vehicle overturned after hitting the road hump. His mother-in-law Gauramma, 48, and his sister-in-law Revathi, 28, who were also in the vehicle, suffered injuries.
A 30-year-old man was arrested by the Rajajinagar police raping his wife’s “best friend” at knifepoint five months ago.
The suspect, Srinivas,an attende at a private finance firm, had a “crush” on the 23-year-old victim, a housekeeper at a private firm. According to police, he tried to make advances to her but she rejected him. Five months ago, Srinivas is alleged to have called up the victim, requesting her to help him as his wife had “met with an accident”.
K T Gurumurthy, the founder of a hi-tech surrogacy clinic in Basaveshwarnagar has been in prison on the charge of “cheating” more than 30 people who alleged that he failed to keep his promise to help them get babies through surrogacy and egg donation.
Kamakshipalya police arrested K T Gurumurthy, the founder and managing director of Shrushti Global Medicare and Research Foundation, after more than 30 people made a complaint of cheating against him.
Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and director of the National Cancer Institute, USA, has said that it will take another 20 to 30 years to control the symptoms of cancer without having to wait for the disease to strike. He said, the symptoms can be detected early enough to prevent the rise and spread of the disease.
On Tuesday, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths arrested three associates of notorious rowdy Umesh Shetty and recovered a revolver and other weapons from them.
Based on a information, the police arrested the trio at a playground near HMT Layout in Yeshwantpur police station limits, while they were planning to burgle a house.
The arrested are Narayana Bahadur Singh and Nabeen Rukaya from Nepal and Santosh, a native of Belthangadi in Dakshina Kannada.
Santosh is wanted in many cases in Mumbai, whereas, Singh is involved in 20 house burglaries.
The Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers – Karnataka State, has announced a 48-hour nationwide strike on February 12 and 13.
The participant in the strike include the employees from the Accounts, Postal, Audit, Income Tax, Survey of India, , Geological Survey of India, Ground Water Board, Central Excise among 40 Central Government departments, said a press release from the organisation.
Karnataka is keen to resolve issues confronting the mining industry and revive its activity in the state soon, Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra said Wednesday.
“We have set up a cabinet sub-committee to address the issues plaguing the mining industry and restore its operations despite legal constrains,” Jayachandra said here at a day-long conference on “Mining in Karnataka: Restoring normal operations”.
Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj Wednesday announced that the state would implement a new industrial policy from April 1 to attract investments aimed at creating a million jobs in the next five years.
The government also holds a Global Investors Meet in Bangalore in October this year to showcase investment opportunities in the state, he said addressing the joint session of the two houses of Karnataka legislature, marking the beginning of the legislative business for the year.
The details of the policy are being worked out and would be announced soon, according to official sources.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office ( PMO) and Congress leader V. Narayanasamy on Wednesday criticized Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for staging a protest demanding suspension of erring police officials, stating that Kejriwal should become a ruler and not an agitator.
“It is a very unfortunate situation. A chief minister of a state is sitting on a ‘dharna’ causing inconvenience to the commuters and the public. Chief Minister is there to govern the state not to agitate. He is there to control the agitation; he himself has become an agitator,” he told media here today.
Karnataka booked their spot in the summit clash of the Ranji Trophy after the final day of their semifinal match against Punjab was washed out, here today.
Karnataka, who entered the final by the virtue of first innings lead, will take on Maharashtra at Hyderabad from January 29.
The match was called off by the umpires without a ball being bowled on the fifth day due to persistent rain. The first day of the match was also wiped out.
Karnataka, who were at 447 for five in reply to Punjab’s first innings total of 270, went through to their first Ranji final in four seasons.
As the country’s coffee capital, Bangalore is, after a four-year hiatus, hosting again the India International Coffee Festival (IICF-2014) from Thursday to spread the brew’s aroma.
Held biennially since 2002 by stakeholders, including growers, roasters, traders and exporters with state support, the previous fourth edition of the three-day fest was held in New Delhi in January 2012 to create greater awareness and promote the beverage in non-traditional areas where tea and other soft drinks are consumed more.
On Tuesday, a cyber cafe on 80 feet road in RT Nagar was raided by police for showing pornographic content to teenagers.
Neelu and Vijay Kumar were caught showing pornographic videos to teenagers at the cafe, according to RT Nagar police,,
Soon after receiving the nformation , the police raided the cafe on Tuesday evening
Shiv Menon, Sunanda Pushkar’s son on Tuesday issued a statement ruling out foul play and gave a clean chit to his step father and Union Minister Shashi Tharoor.
Shiv Menon stated that Sunanda was too strong to commit suicide, the letter added that her death was an “unfortunate mix of stress, tension and wrong medication.” It further stated: “Her death was peaceful, she passed in her sleep.”
Early Tuesday morning, a tenthouse owner was found murdered at an open farmland on Kaggalipura Main Road near Bannerghatta. Local inhabitants found an sports utility vehicle abandoned at the farmland and the body of a man lying close by with his throat slit.
The deceased was identified as Rajanna alias Gidda Rajanna, 55years-old, a resident of Kariyappanahalli.
On Monday night, a cable operator was stabbed to death by his friends following an argument at Byrappa Block in Thyagaraja Nagar. The deceased was identified as Puneeth Kumar, 25, was a resident of the same block.
According to Police at around 9 pm, Kumar was having tea at a bakery when his friends Ravi, Abhi and Dinesh picked a quarrel with him, took out a knife and poked him in the abdomen and ran away.
Come Thursday, tourists will have another reason to visit this tech hub. A gigantic Tricolour, measuring 78×48 feet, will flutter at a spectacular height of 65 metres (213 feet) at the National Military Memorial in the city centre, making it one of the world’s largest flags.
Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj would hoist the flag in the presence of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, home minister K.J. George and Lok Sabha lawmaker from Haryana Naveen Jindal, who founded the Flag Foundation of India.
A speeding car mowed down a security guard and injured two others after it collide with an electricity pole near RV Engineering College on Sunday night.
The deceased has been identified as Manu, 41, resident of Mutturayanagar .He was working as a security guard at a private automobile showroom on Mysore Road.
The mishap occurred at around 7.45 pm when Manu was on his way to a nearby hotel. A speeding car hit him down before crashing into an electricity pole.