Bengaluru News Live Updates: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said the process of selecting candidates for the Assembly polls is being held in a democratic way and it will be completed smoothly with the list being announced after the party’s central leadership finalises it on April 8, according to news agency PTI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the face of BJP’s election campaign in Karnataka, is likely to address nearly 20 rallies in the state in the run-up to the elections. This was reported by the news agency ANI quoting a senior BJP leader.
Meanwhile, several parts of Bengaluru witnessed spells of rain last night, bringing a welcome respite from the scorching summer heat. However, as per the weather forecast by the Meteorological Centre in Bengaluru, the city is expected to get light rain or thundershowers towards the evening or night in some areas, along with a partly cloudy sky.
Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM plans to field candidates in about 25 constituencies and is eyeing an electoral alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular) in the Assembly elections in Karnataka, the party’s state unit president Osman Ghani said on Tuesday. (PTI)
Former Congress MLA Nandihalli Halappa and noted ophthalmologist Dr Appaji Gowda, who is aspiring for a ticket to contest the upcoming election from Kanakapura constituency against Congress state president D K Shivakumar, joined the BJP on Tuesday. (PTI)
“Hassan politics is different, my wife’s politics is different,” JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday, as he rejected media reports about his wife and party MLA Anitha Kumaraswamy’s “demand” to contest May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls.
Anitha had earlier contested elections to save the party, when it did have a candidate in certain prime constituencies, he said, adding that she has no interest in electoral politics and has decided to stay away from it. (PTI)
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said the process of selecting candidates for the Assembly polls is being held in a democratic way and it will be completed smoothly with the list being announced after the party’s central leadership finalises it on April 8. (PTI)
As a Surat court granted bail to Rahul Gandhi and suspended his sentence till the disposal of his appeal seeking a stay on his conviction in a defamation case over his 2019 Modi surname remark, the Urdu dailies kept their focus on the Rahul affair, tracking the shape of the Opposition unity emerging in the process. They are also charting the course of the high-stakes Karnataka Assembly polls, seeking to read its tea leaves for sensing the arc of national politics ahead of the 2024 general elections.
The dailies flagged the en masse acquittal of the accused in the 1987 Maliana massacre and a 2002 Gujarat riots case, pointing out that these rulings marked a chilling miscarriage of justice. Read what they said here
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai Tuesday said the process of selecting candidates for the Assembly polls is being held in a democratic way and it will be completed smoothly with the list being announced after the party’s central leadership finalises it on April 8.
Asked by reporters if there will be surprise candidates in the fray from the BJP, he said: “Certainly, there is a plan for new experiments in certain constituencies and they will happen.” Some seats will give a “surprise result”, he said. “You are going to see it in the days to come. Both our workers and leaders are confident.” He also said there are clear signs of BJP getting absolute majority and coming back to power.
“Today’s state election committee meeting is a continued part of the district-level core committee meeting that took place over the last couple of days; further screening would be done today and tomorrow before sending (the list of probable candidates) to the centre (central leadership). It will be sent to the centre day after tomorrow,” Bommai said. (PTI)
Considering it an extraordinary circumstance, the Karnataka High Court has directed prison authorities to release a convict on parole for 15 days so that he could get married to his girlfriend.
The mother and lover of the convict, who is serving a 10-year term for murder, approached the court fearing the latter was being married off to someone else.
The Additional Government Advocate, however, submitted to the court “that there is no provision for grant of parole to get married”. He submitted that if it were to be anybody else’s marriage that the detenue wanted to attend, it would have been a different circumstance.
However, Justice M Nagaprasanna considered this as an extraordinary situation that warranted parole to the convict, Anand. (PTI)
In a move that may further escalate the ongoing row between the governments of Maharashtra and Karnataka over the border dispute, the Maharashtra government on Monday issued directions to extend benefits of the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Aarogya scheme to residents of the 865 villages in Belgaum, Kalburgi, Bidar and Karvar districts in Karnataka.
Maharashtra has claimed stake over these villages in 12 tehsils and the legal battle is pending in the Supreme Court. Karnataka is set to go for Assembly polls on May 10 and Maharashtra’s extension of welfare services to the border areas is likely to raise the political heat in the state. Maharashtra has already doubled the pension given to family members of martyrs in the border dispute. (Read more)
Along with strong Lingayat influence, a large SC/ST population defines the demography of four districts in central Karnataka, which has kept offering rich dividends to the BJP over the last decade and a half. Save for the 2013 Assembly polls — when the BJP was hit by B S Yediyurappa breaking away and forming a splinter group, Karnataka Janata Party — the BJP has bagged the most seats in the region since 2008, powering it to single-largest party in the state.
Central Karnataka comprises a total of 32 constituencies, eight of which are reserved for SC/STs — five for SCs and three for STs. In 2018, the BJP won 21 of the seats, the Congress seven and the JD(S) won 4 (all 4 in Tumakuru district). (Read more)
Several parts of Bengaluru witnessed spells of rain Monday night, bringing a welcome respite from the scorching summer heat.
However, as per the weather forecast by the Meteorological Centre in Bengaluru, the city is expected to get light rain or thundershowers towards the evening or night in some areas, along with a partly cloudy sky. However, the maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 33 and 23 degrees Celsius respectively.
On Monday night, many areas of the city including Jigani, Madiwala, Haragadde, Bommasandra, Anekal, Electronic City, Marsuru, the Bannerghatta Zoo and surrounding areas of the south-southeast Bengaluru received a good bout of rains with lightning and gusty winds. According to weather experts, the BBMP limits recorded 65 mm of rain on Monday.
While showers are expected in Bengaluru till April 6, the city is going to witness a normal summer from April 7. From midweek, the temperatures in the city are likely to go beyond 36 degrees Celsius.
PUNEETH Kerehalli, who is facing charges of murder for the killing of a man transporting cattle in a district near Bengaluru on Friday night, is known to have built his profile over the past few years raising religious issues, racking up multiple cases, and hanging around the fringes of Sangh Parivar-affiliated outfits in Karnataka.
The younger brother of Idrees Pasha, who was found dead after the attack on a vehicle in which he was transporting cattle by a gang led by Kerehalli, on Monday alleged that Idrees was electrocuted. Speaking to The Indian Express, Yunus Pasha said Idrees’s body bore “burnt marks on the chest and back” and that he appeared to have been assaulted. (Read more)
Despite an appearance of unity in Karnataka Congress, there are signs that the factions led by state Congress president D K Shivakumar and Opposition leader Siddaramaiah continue to be at loggerheads.
The two leaders are learnt to be silently working to ensure the support of a maximum number of party MLAs to emerge as the Chief Minister if the party is elected to power in the May 10 election. There have been rumblings of discontent over probable ticket allocation in recent days. On Monday, there were protests in front of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office by supporters of ticket aspirants from the Molakalmuru (Chitradurga district) and Tarikere (Chikkamagaluru district) constituencies. (Read more)
A flight from Bengaluru to Varanasi was forced to land in Telangana early Tuesday due to a technical problem, but all passengers are safe, reported the news agency ANI.
The Varanasi-bound IndiGo Flight 6E897 made an emergency landing at Telangana’s Shamshabad Airport at 6.15 am. All 137 passengers who were onboard are safe, said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
More details to follow.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the face of BJP’s election campaign in Karnataka, is likely to address nearly 20 rallies in the state in the run-up to the elections. This was reported by the news agency ANI quoting a senior BJP leader.
PM Modi would likely visit the state this weekend, his first visit since the announcement of assembly election dates and his eighth visit to the state this year. He will visit Mysuru. The Assembly elections are to be held on May 10 and the counting of votes on May 14.
Union Minister and BJP leader Pralhad Joshi has indicated that the party’s first list of candidates for Karnataka polls could be released on April 8 or 9.
During what was supposed to be a simple two-hour journey between Pune and Bengaluru, flyers on a GoFirst flight on April 2 had a harrowing experience. The flight scheduled at 8.30 am was rescheduled to 8:30 pm and further to 11:25 pm, a delay of nearly 15 hours. The flyers were forced to walk to the aircraft from the boarding gate in the midst of fuel tanks, luggage wagons and other vehicles as no one cared to guide them.
Prajakta Gothkhindikar, who runs a cafe in Bengaluru, took to Twitter to criticise the airline for the inconvenience caused by the poor management of the situation. Gothkhindikar said that she and her four-year-old son had booked tickets and paid extra for two consecutive seats on the fourth row. However, following the rescheduling of the flight, the airline provided them seats in different rows—the fourth and 25th row. “Despite paying extra for two consecutive seats on the fourth row we were given two separate rows. The seats got shuffled due to rescheduling. How can I leave my child alone in a different row, especially during night journeys?” she said. (Read more)
A BJP MLA from Kundapur Haladi Srinivas Shetty has voluntarily decided not to contest in the upcoming elections. The 71-year-old is a five time MLA from the constituency — four times from BJP and once as an Independent in the 2013 polls.
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BJP leader and MLC Ayanur Manjunath on Monday said he will resign as a member of the Karnataka Legislative Council, and contest the May 10 Assembly polls from the Shivamogga constituency.
However, he did not specify whether he would contest from any other political party or as an independent candidate. (PTI)
A case was registered by the police against Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar on Monday for allegedly distributing cash during a poll campaign.
The action comes days after the police had registered a non-cognisable offence against Shivakumar following a complaint alleging that he showered currency notes at the crowd, from his campaign bus at Bevinahalli village in Mandya Taluk on March 28. (PTI)
A day after external affairs minister S Jaishankar held a public meeting in Cubbon Park along with Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and Bengaluru Central MP PC Mohan, the Cubbon Park Walkers Association (CPWA) sent a letter to the Election Commission of India requesting the body to ban ‘political meetings’ in parks such as Cubbon Park and Lalbagh, citing disturbance to animals and birds.
In another blow to the BJP in Karnataka, MLC Ayanur Manjunath on Monday announced he would resign and contest the coming Assembly elections from Shivamogga constituency, which is currently represented by BJP MLA and former minister K S Eshwarappa. According to BJP insiders, Eshwarappa wanted to push his son’s candidature from Shivamogga.
Manjunath said he would soon submit his resignation to the Legislative Council Chairperson. If he goes through with it, he will become the third BJP MLC to resign after Puttanna and Baburao Chinchansur, who put in their papers last month. Both of them joined the Congress and Puttanna has been fielded from the Rajaji Nagar constituency in Bengaluru. The Congress is also likely to field Chinchansur from Gurmitkal in Gulbarga district. Another leader who joined the Congress recently was S R Srinivas (Gubbi Srinivas alias Vasu) who resigned as Janata Dal (Secular) MLA on March 27. Read here
The High Court of Karnataka has directed quasi-judicial authorities in the Department of Panchayat Raj, Rural Development Department, to ensure that all case proceedings before them are web-hosted and information is provided to the litigants and advocates electronically.
The HC also directed that details of all the proceedings before quasi-judicial authorities must be uploaded to the relevant websites and necessary arrangements made to inform the litigants and also advocates by SMS and/ or e-mail. (PTI)
The Basavaraj Bommai government has made some significant changes in the norms for reservation in government jobs and education for backward classes and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Karnataka.
On March 30, the government notified a decision taken by the cabinet to scrap the 4% backward classes quota for Muslims — they have been recognised as a backward class in Karnataka for more than 100 years — and to reallot the Muslim OBC quota to the two most dominant communities in the state, Lingayats and Vokkaligas. What does this mean? Read here
“All corrupt faces are coming together on one platform … because the BJP is waging a war against corruption.”
With this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week unleashed an attack on Opposition parties for criticising Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha. Four days after Modi’s speech at the party headquarters in New Delhi, the BJP on Sunday officially launched an online video campaign on alleged corruption during Congress rule and the first episode, titled “Congress Means Corruption”, began with the statement, “Congress has looted Rs 48,20,69,00,00,000 from the public in 70 years of its rule.” The PM also amplified the anti-corruption message on Monday at the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), terming corruption the biggest roadblock to democracy and justice. Know more here
In view of various BJP-ruled states including Karnataka mulling to introduce mainstream education in madrasas, minority institutions have also taken a lead in bridging the gulf. Bidar-based Shaheen Group of Institutions (SGI) recently launched a program to increase the employability of 10,000 madrasa students by imparting mainstream education. In Karnataka, the institution is expected to train over 1,400 students based on NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) and state board syllabus. The classes are expected to start on May 20, following the Ramzan break.
Karnataka School Education Minister BC Nagesh had earlier claimed that the state government was planning to introduce mainstream education in madrasas after receiving complaints from parents about ‘poor quality of education’. Read more here
Several BJP and JD(S) leaders joining the Congress ahead of the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka is an evidence to prove that public sentiment is in favour of the party and it will come to power, its state unit President D K Shvakumar said on Monday.
He was speaking after inducting Kudligi BJP MLA N Y Gopalakrishna, who had resigned as a legislator on Friday, into the party. (PTI)
The Bengaluru police arrested the owner of a film institute for cheating dozens of aspirants of money under the guise of landing them roles in films and television serials.
Rajajinagar police in north Bengaluru arrested K Nagendra alias Dhawan Soha, 31, who ran an enterprise called Flamingo Celebrities World Pvt Ltd, on the basis of a complaint filed by an 18-year-old girl who was duped of Rs 75,000 in the guise of creating portfolios and promos to land acting jobs.
The police probe in the case has revealed that as many as 58 acting aspirants may have been cheated by the alleged fraudster and his associates. Read more here
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa on Monday said his son B Y Vijayendra will contest the May 10 Assembly elections from Shikaripura in this district, which he represented in the Lower House six times.
The BJP strongman, who had already announced his retirement from electoral politics, again ruled out the possibility of his son being fielded from Varuna in Mysuru against Congress stalwart Siddaramaiah. (PTI)
Three techies allegedly attacked the family members of a serving Army officer recently following a scuffle over ‘loud music’. Lloyd Nehemiah, brother of colonel David Nehemiah, alleged that he and his sister were attacked by three men after Lloyd reportedly asked them to lower the volume of the music. The incident took place at Vignan Nagar in Bengaluru in the wee hours of Sunday. Read more here
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday said there is no change in his stand regarding selection of candidate for the Hassan seat, for the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka and that his father and party patriarch H D Deve Gowda would take a final decision on this.
Hassan seat, has become a bone of contention, as Gowda’s daughter-in-law Bhavani Revanna, who has thrown her hat in the ring, has not relented, despite her brother-in-law Kumaraswamy, repeatedly making it clear that she will not be fielded, and instead a “loyal party worker” will enter the fray. (PTI)
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday confirmed he would seek reelection from his home town of Shiggaon in Haveri district in the Assembly elections. Stating that there is “pro-incumbency” in the state, Bommai said a lot of changes have taken place in the country after the BJP-led government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power. (PTI)
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday said that he will be filing his nomination as a candidate from Channapatna segment on April 19, for the Assembly polls in Karnataka to be held on May 10.
He said his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy will be filing his papers as the party’s candidate from neighbouring Ramanagara on April 17. (PTI)
A local forecast for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) predicted scattered very light to light/thundershowers rains today. Meanwhile, the maximum & minimum temperatures are likely to be around 33 and 23 degree celsius respectively.
A 29-year-old woman was killed and her mother was critically injured after a lorry knocked down their scooter on Mysuru Road in Bengaluru on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Anusha G, a resident of Attiguppe in Bengaluru, and her mother as Vanajakshi (50).
What happened?
They were going to a mall when a speeding lorry hit their scooter as it entered the main road near the Pantarapalya bus stop, around 2.15pm. Anusha’s seven-year-old son Aryan escaped with minor injuries. The lorry ran over Anusha’s head, killing her on the spot, and injured Vanajakshi’s legs. The lorry also rammed into a Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus before coming to a stop. The driver of the lorry fled the scene leaving the vehicle behind. Read more here
#WATCH | Former Karnataka CM & Congress leader Siddaramaiah slams BJP-led state govt on the murder of cattle trader in Ramnagara, says, “CM Bommai supported moral policing, these communal forces are encouraged by the state built up by CM Basavaraj Bommai” pic.twitter.com/adS63uf8Ek
The disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as a Lok Sabha member would be a campaign issue for the Congress in the Assembly elections in Karnataka and it would contribute to the defeat of the BJP government in the state, senior party leader M Veerappa Moily said on Monday.
In an interview with PTI, the former Karnataka chief minister said there is a “groundswell” of support for the Congress in the state, and his party’s campaign on corruption issues have worked, while the BJP is facing a “strong, anti-incumbency wave”. (Read more)
Another BJP MLC Ayanur Manjunath says that he will resign as legislator and contest against Shivmogga MLA KS Eshwarappa or his son at Shivamogga constituency.
Ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections in May, electoral bonds for funding political parties were opened for sale Monday (April 3) for a 10-day window till April 12 at 29 authorised branches of State Bank of India (SBI).
The Union finance ministry on March 31 announced the 26th tranche of electoral bonds under the Electoral Bond Scheme 2018. As per the scheme, any Indian citizen or corporate can buy the bonds to contribute to a political party that has opened its dedicated electoral bond account with SBI. The bonds will be valid for 15 calendar days from the day of issue. (Read more)
The Basavaraj Bommai government has made some significant changes in the norms for reservation in government jobs and education for backward classes and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Karnataka.
On March 30, the government notified a decision taken by the cabinet to scrap the 4% backward classes quota for Muslims — they have been recognised as a backward class in Karnataka for more than 100 years — and to reallot the Muslim OBC quota to the two most dominant communities in the state, Lingayats and Vokkaligas. (Read more)
Here’s what the Bengaluru Meteorological Department predicts.
For 24 hours: Partly cloudy sky. Light rain/thundershowers towards evening/night likely in some areas. Maximum and minimum temperatures are very likely to be around 34 and 23 degrees Celsius respectively.
For 48 hours: Partly cloudy sky. Light rain/thundershowers towards evening/night likely in some areas. Maximum and minimum temperatures are very likely to be around 34 and 23 degrees Celsius respectively.
A man was allegedly murdered and two of his associates were assaulted by cow vigilantes, who accused them of transporting cattle illegally, in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district, 20 km away from Bengaluru, Friday night. The police have booked activist Puneeth Kerehalli and four others in the case.
The deceased has been identified as Idrees Pasha, a resident of the state’s Mandya district. The incident came to light when the police arrested the driver of the container, Syed Zaheer, for illegal cow transportation based on Kerehalli’s complaint. (Read more)
The story of Bengaluru, new and old, is incomplete without Ulsoor Lake, which shares its name with the old eponymous neighbourhood. A man-made lake spanning 50 hectares, it has its origin in medieval Karnataka’s long tradition of creating keres, or tanks, for irrigation and other purposes.
In modern times, it has struggled with issues of pollution, with colonial British and current authorities alike plagued with the dilemma.
The beginning of the lake likely lies with Kempe Gowda and his heir, Kempe Gowda II. According to Bengaluru historian Arun Prasad, this is supported by the nearby Halasuru Someshwara Temple. While legend holds that it was built by Kempe Gowda after a vision from Lord Someshwara, this is inconsistent with Chola-era construction within it. However, the late Vijayanagara-type additions and renovations point to the hand of Kempe Gowda, himself a feudatory of the Vijayanagara Emperor. (Read more)
Responding to remarks by the United States and Germany on the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as MP, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar Sunday said the West thinks it has a “God-given right” to comment on internal matters of other countries.
He made the comment while interacting at a ‘Meet and Greet’ event organised by MPs PC Mohan and Tejasvi Surya at Cubbon Park in Bengaluru. (Read More)
Firing a fresh salvo at the Congress, the BJP Sunday released the first episode of a video series titled “Congress Files” in which it alleged that corruptions and scams were rampant during the rule of the grand old party. Though some Congress supporters and Twitter handles of organisations allied to it fired back at the BJP, the party’s senior leadership has not responded to the video. (Read More)
Congress Files के पहले एपिसोड में देखिए, कैसे कांग्रेस राज में एक के बाद एक भ्रष्टाचार और घोटाले हुए… pic.twitter.com/vAZ7BDZtFi
On March 30, local newspapers in Karnataka carried full-page advertisements on behalf of the state’s Madiga community. With pictures of Union Minister of State A Narayanaswamy and state water resources minister Govind Karjol, two prominent Madiga leaders, the ad extended a “hearty thanks” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for “introducing internal reservations and providing social justice”.
The ad is an indication that the BJP government’s decision with regard to internal reservations for SCs is expected by the party to consolidate its support base within the SC (left) community, which comprises some of the most backward groups among the 101 sub-castes of Dalits in Karnataka. The Madigas are the largest group in the category. (Read More)
The anti-toll gate action committee, which spearheaded the successful agitation against the toll gate at Surathkal here has asked voters in the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi to defeat the BJP in the ensuing assembly elections for imposing hefty hike in toll charges on highways.
In a statement here, the committee convenor Muneer Katipalla strongly criticised the union government’s decision to increase highway toll charges by 25 per cent with effect from April 1. Katipalla said the hike in toll charges has burdened the people who are already affected by price rise and increased cost of living. (PTI)
📌 JD(S) MLA from Arsikere constituency, K M Shivalinge Gowda on Sunday resigned, ahead of the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka.
📌 He is likely to join the Congress.
📌 Gowda is a three time MLA from Arsikere in Hassan district.
📌 He had recently announced that his next move is towards the Congress, and is likely to be fielded by that party as its candidate from Arsikere in the upcoming polls.
📌 Gowda is the third JD(S) MLA to quit as legislator in the last few days.
📌 Earlier, R Srinivas (Gubbi Srinivas alias Vasu) had resigned on March 27, and joined the Congress
📌 While AT Ramaswamy had quit as legislator on Friday to join BJP. (PTI)
While the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) have announced their first list of candidates for May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, the ruling BJP is not in a hurry as its focus is on completing processes set by the leadership before the list of probable candidates are sent to the high command.
After carrying out three separate surveys in every constituency, the BJP has collected the opinions of local leaders on probable candidates in each constituency in a secret ballot and district-level core committee meetings are currently underway to shortlist the candidates, according to party sources. (Read More)
In the intense and desperate assertions for electoral support, the RSS-BJP’s spin doctors have concocted two imaginary soldiers, Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda from the Vokkaliga community, as the brave slayers of Tipu Sultan, whom they vilify as an anti-Hindu tyrant.
Invoking the last Mysore War (1799), which led to the consolidation of the British empire in India, is only one sign that the forthcoming assembly elections in Karnataka, scheduled to be held on May 10, will be a battle not only between political parties. It will be for the very soul of Karnataka and for the future of democracy in India. (Read More)
While the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) have announced their first list of candidates for May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, the ruling BJP is not in a hurry as its focus is on completing processes set by the leadership before the list of probable candidates are sent to the high command.
After carrying out three separate surveys in every constituency, the BJP has collected the opinions of local leaders on probable candidates in each constituency in a secret ballot and district-level core committee meetings are currently underway to shortlist the candidates, according to party sources. In a day or two, the opinions will be collected and the BJP Parliamentary Board is likely to meet on April 4. Read More
Syed Zaheer, Idrees Pasha, and Irfan were taking cattle from Karnataka’s Ramanagara district on Friday night to sell them in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, when they were allegedly assaulted by cow vigilantes led by right-wing activist Puneeth Kerehalli.
While speaking to The Indian Express on Sunday, Zaheer, 40, said they usually take the cattle to sell in Tamil Nadu and Kerala during weekly fairs. Read More
A team of researchers at the Raman Research Institute’s (RRI) Quantum Information and Computing Lab based in Bengaluru achieved a breakthrough in March this year in their efforts towards using satellites for secure quantum communication, in collaboration with ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre. This is part of the QUEST initiative (Quantum experiments using satellite technology). Read More
It was September 5, 2015. Operations at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) were going smoothly when the airport officials received a phone call around 1.20 am in which a man revealed plans to bomb an Air France flight. Before long, multiple calls and messages followed from the same number. The subsequent police investigation took on surprising turns and twists and ultimately unravelled sordid details of a murder driven by ‘love’.
Soon after receiving the threat calls, KIA manager Supreeth Kotian approached the Bengaluru city police with a complaint alleging that the threats were accompanied by the message #ISwins, in an apparent reference to the Islamic State terror group. Read More
With rising rent prices and a competitive property market, it has become very difficult for people to rent decent rooms in cities like Mumbai and Bengaluru. On Friday, a Twitter user named Manthan Gupta (@manthanguptaa) shared a photo that at the first glance looks like a simple single occupancy room with an overhead window.
While sharing the photo, Gupta wrote, “Finally found a fully furnished home in blr. Gated society and 24×7 security.” Interestingly, when one clicks on ‘ALT’ (alternative text, which stands for image description) one gets the image description as “This is a jail cell”. Read More
The anti-toll gate action committee, which spearheaded the successful agitation against the toll gate at Surathkal here has asked voters in the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi to defeat the BJP in the ensuing assembly elections for imposing hefty hike in toll charges on highways.
In a statement here, the committee convenor Muneer Katipalla strongly criticised the union government’s decision to increase highway toll charges by 25 per cent with effect from April 1.
Katipalla said the hike in toll charges has burdened the people who are already affected by price rise and increased cost of living, news agency PTI reported.
ISRO successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX) on Sunday, news agency PTI reported.
The test was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Chitradurga, Karnataka, the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said.
ISRO conducted the experiment in collaboration with the Air Force and Defence Space Research Organisation early today.
RLV lands on a runway pic.twitter.com/hXdKlII57J
The story of Bengaluru, new and old, is incomplete without Ulsoor Lake, which shares its name with the old eponymous neighbourhood. A man-made lake spanning 50 hectares, it has its origin in medieval Karnataka’s long tradition of creating keres, or tanks, for irrigation and other purposes.
In modern times, it has struggled with issues of pollution, with colonial British and current authorities alike plagued with the dilemma. Read More
A man was allegedly murdered and two of his associates were assaulted by cow vigilantes, who accused them of transporting cattle illegally, in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district, 20 km away from Bengaluru, Friday night. The police have booked activist Puneeth Kerehalli and four others in the case.
The deceased has been identified as Idrees Pasha, a resident of the state’s Mandya district. The incident came to light when the police arrested the driver of the container, Syed Zaheer, for illegal cow transportation based on Kerehalli’s complaint. Read More
Four-time Karnataka MLA A T Ramaswamy, who quit as a JD(S) legislator on Friday, joined the BJP in New Delhi on Saturday. The 71-year-old politician with a clean image has represented the Hassan region’s Arkalgud for the Congress (till 2004) as well.
A woman, who was training to become a volleyball coach at the Sports Authority of India (SAI), Bengaluru, has been accused of recording an objectionable video of a 25-year-old Taekwondo player while the latter was taking a bath. The incident came to light when the victim approached Jnanabharathi police station on March 29 to file a complaint.
