Lakes of Bengaluru: Once a symbol of pristine environment, Hosakerehalli lake cries for rejuvenation
Spread over 59.36 acres, the Hosakerehalli lake once symbolised the pristine environment. Today it not only receives sewage from a storm water drain but has also turned into a black spot.
Seven acres of the lake have been encroached on. According to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), six acres have been encroached by a private body and 0.26 acres by the government.
Don't miss | At DAG from Monday: 18th Century paintings of Tipu Sultan, Anglo-Mysore wars to go on display
In an eponymous exhibition that opens at DAG, The Claridges on July 25, Giles Tillotson has put together several famed paintings of the time alongside maps depicting war positions and the Mysore cityscape sketched and painted during the period.
After the 68th National Film Awards were announced on Friday, awarding Dollu two awards: the Best Kannada Film and “Location Sound Recordist (for sync sound films only)”, Oscar-winning sound mixer and the winner of Best Audiography at the 67th National Awards, Resul Pookutty, found himself in the middle of a row after he put out a tweet expressing his surprise that a dubbed film won for sync sound.
The fact was confirmed by the film’s sound designer Nithin Lukose. Pookutty, who has been part of many government committees in the past, says, he’s being “misrepresented in the media, and is being projected as anti-government, which is grossly wrong”. Read more...
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Bengaluru recorded 910 new Covid cases with 706 patients discharged today. Bengaluru has 7,734 active cases while the state recorded a total of 9,162 total active cases.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a meeting with chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of BJP-ruled states at the party headquarters here to deliberate on the developmental work done by them.
Nagaland Chief Minister Nephio Rio, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha are also present.
The Congress in Karnataka will observe 'Mauna Satyagraha' (silent resistence) on Tuesday when their party supremo Sonia Gandhi will appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials probing the alleged money laundering in National Herald case, state unit president D K Shivakumar said. (PTI)
A 17-year-old girl from Karnataka finds herself among the rarest of rare individuals as she is not only ambidextrous but can write simultaneously with her hands in 11 different ways, including blindfolded and in opposite directions.
The railways has decided to run three pairs of additional trains every week between Bengaluru and Mangaluru in view of frequent landslides affecting the flow of traffic along the Shiradi Ghat stretch of National Highway-75.
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu released the biography of ISKCON founder - Acharya Srila Prabhupada - 'Sing, Dance and Pray: The Inspirational Story of Srila Prabhupada'. The book was released at the Upa Rashtrapati Niwas today.
The India Meteorological Department Sunday forecast thunderstorms with lightning over parts of coastal Karnataka and south interior Karnataka and said north interior Karnataka will witness rainfall.
Having started its journey in Bengaluru, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is not only synonymous with India’s giant leap in the aeronautical industry but also with the Karnataka capital.
With the aim of manufacturing aircraft in India, Hindustan Aircraft Limited was established on December 23, 1940, in Bengaluru by Seth Walchand Hirachand with financial support provided by the then Government of Mysore. It was later handed over to the Ministry of Defence under the Government of India.
Speaking with indianexpress.com, HAL chairman and managing director R Madhavan said, “HAL grew up with the city of Bangalore. The growth of HAL is synonymous with the growth of this city. It has remained an integral part of the city.”
Congress' Karnataka unit chief D K Shivakumar Sunday called the questioning of party chief Sonia Gandhi and MP Rahul Gandhi ‘harassment' as he appealed people to join a protest that would be held against the agency’s action on July 26, ANI reported.??
The Gandhis have been summoned by the ED in connection with an alleged case of money laundering related to the National Herald newspaper.??
Earlier, a trial court ordered the Income Tax Department to conduct an income tax assessment of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
The BJP and JD (S) workers physically assaulted each other over the installation of flexes in view of the local temple fair on Saturday night. Local JD (S) leader Siraj and another person were injured in the incident.
An ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) camera was installed at various junctions across the city to alert traffic police whenever any vehicle offends the traffic rules.
A total of 20 ANPR cameras were installed in March at various junctions in the city, mainly in Central Business District areas, to help traffic police track vehicles against which fines for various violations are pending.
According to Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) BR Ravikanthe Gowda, the cameras aside from detecting vehicles with pending cases against them but also detect vehicles with suspicious number plates and those stolen.
Karnataka Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Bhamla Chavan said on Saturday, that the Karnataka State government would be launching a new cow adoption scheme on July 28 to encourage the adoption of cattle from goshalas, ANI reported.
Chavan said, "Our government is keen to start 'Punyakoti Dattu Yojana' for the first time in the country to encourage adoption by public and private organisations for the purpose of nurturing and rearing the cattle in cow sheds to preserve the herd. Basavaraja Bommai will complete one year as the Chief Minister on July 28 and the dedication ceremony will be held on the same day.''
"100 government goshalas are being started gradually and in all these Goshalas domestic and crossbred cattle, needy, exhausted, old, diseased, abandoned by farmers, male calves and cattle seized by court and police custody are being sheltered and nurtured," the Minister said.
The Bengaluru City police paid condolences to the officials who died in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh while on duty. The police officers were later identified as sub-inspector Avinash, police constable Anil Mulik and Maxwell, the driver of the vehicle.
The officers, who were posted at the Shivajinagar police station in Bengaluru, were sent on duty on a specific tip-off about contraband moving towards Bengaluru from Andhra Pradesh. The personnel were travelling in a private vehicle and on preliminary information, it appears the accident occurred at a barrier on the highway at Putalapattu in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
The family members of the deceased and the injured have been intimated and all assistance and support are being rendered to the families, said officials.
Once a political force to be reckoned with in Karnataka, Margaret Alva returned to the political stage after being nominated as the opposition's candidate for the Vice President of India Election.
The Bengaluru South East Division of Police on Saturday made two young boys Mohd Salman from Kerala and Mithilesh from Bengaluru, the Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) for a few hours. This was an attempt to fulfil their wish to become police officers. as both the boys were battling cancer. ANI reported.
At least five members of a family died, while four others were injured when an unknown vehicle hit the Scorpio car they were travelling in, according to the police report.
The family had gone for a birthday celebration and was on the way back home when the incident took place.
In a traffic incident, two police officials of Bengaluru City who were in Andhra Pradesh for an investigation died after the car they were travelling hit the road median and toppled.
According to the police sources, the deceased are Avinash, police sub-inspector of Shivaji Nagar police station and constable Anil. About four police officials who were in the car has been injured.
A six-member team from Shivajinagar police station had been to Andhra Pradesh in connection with a drug peddling case. The incident took place near Puthalapattu around 3 am. While two police personnel died on the spot four others were injured.
Indian Meteorological Department forecast a generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain. The maximum and minimum temperatures in the city would be likely around 27 and 21 degree Celsius respectively.
The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to appoint an IAS officer as a nodal official to coordinate with various departments and municipal bodies to prepare a dashboard where the public can access and cross-check with all kinds of property details.
This order came in a petition where a builder tried to "take advantage of certain lacunae in the manner and methodology of numbering". A fine of Rs 1 lakh was imposed on Vandana Infra Estates which had filed the petition.
Besides dismissing the petition, the court directed the government to come up with an arrangement with coordination of the Revenue department, Urban Development department, Urban Development authorities, Town Planning authorities, municipal authorities, and municipal corporations, etc., in association with the e-governance department. (PTI)
At least eight people sustained burn injuries including two critically wounded when a fire broke out in a sparkler birthday candle manufacturing factory on Saturday, police said.
According to police, the incident occurred on Saturday evening in the factory at Tarihal Industrial Area and in no time the entire facility was in flames. People rushed to rescue the workers there and reportedly dragged out few of them.
The fire brigade rushed to the spot with an ambulance and the injured were taken to the hospital. The residents said the factory was started only recently. The police were trying to find out the owner, manager and supervisor of the factory. (PTI)
Forty students of Government Higher Primary School in Gollarahatti, in Chitradurga district, fell sick and 26 of them had to be hospitalised after eating the midday meal served at the school on Thursday afternoon.
Doddappa MC, headmaster of the school, said, “On Thursday afternoon I received calls from villagers and teachers who complained that students are falling unconscious and are vomiting. By the time I reached the school, some students had been admitted to the hospital. However, all students are okay.”
He added that food samples have been sent to the laboratory to ascertain if it was a case of food poisoning. Read more
Karnataka reported 1,456 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, of which 1,154 cases were detected in Bengaluru alone. Currently, there are 8,848 active cases in the state (Bengaluru - 7,530).
The state, however, did not witness any virus-related fatalities in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate has reached 4.66 per cent.
As many as 1,096 patients recovered from the disease on Saturday.
A day after unilaterally declaring that his youngest son B Y Vijayendra will replace him as the candidate in his Shikaripura constituency in the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections, former chief minister and BJP veteran B S Yediyurappa on Saturday put the ball in the court of the party high command stating their decision will be final.
Yediyurappa said the final decision regarding his son contesting from Shikaripura will be taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda. Read more
Karnataka Congress leader B Ramanath Rai on Saturday asked the state government to hold a judicial enquiry into the role of BJP leader K S Eshwarappa in the suicide of contractor Santhosh Patil.
Addressing reporters here, Rai said the death note of the deceased contractor had implicated Eshwarappa and alleged that the BJP leader's actions had driven him to suicide.
The decision of the state police to give a clean chit to Eshwarappa has aggravated the miseries of the family of the deceased, Rai said, adding, they have lost all hopes of justice.
The clean chit given to Eshwarappa by the police in the contractor suicide case is not a victory for truth but a victory for falsehood made out with political influence, the former minister said. (PTI)
The High Court of Karnataka has issued notice to the state government in a petition challenging the anti-conversion ordinance brought in by the dispensation.
The petition was filed by Delhi-based Evangelical Fellowship of India and the All Karnataka United Christian Forum for Human Rights and heard by a division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe. The court issued a notice to the government on Friday.
The Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion law was passed through an ordinance. The law is an affront against Article 25 of the Constitution of India which guarantees religious freedom, the petition said. The petition pleaded that no coercive action under the law which was brought through an ordinance on May 17, 2022 be exercised. (PTI)
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said his son and BJP state vice-president B Y Vijayendra has the strength and capacity to win an election from anywhere but the final call has to be taken by the party high command.
Yediyurappa, who is an eight-time MLA from Shikaripura assembly constituency in Shivamogga, said he will not contest the next assembly election but would 'suggest' the party high command to field his son.
During a programme in Shivamogga on Friday, the Lingayat strongman said he would not contest the next election but would field his son. The BJP stalwart reiterated what he said the previous day. (PTI)
The selection of candidates through the manipulation of the exam process as seen in the police sub-inspectors’ (PSI) recruitment in Karnataka is a crime than can lead to “anarchy in the society” and no proper services can be expected from candidates selected through such a system, the Karnataka High Court has stated while rejecting the bail petitions of seven accused in the PSI scam.
Justice H P Sandesh of the Karnataka High Court, who began monitoring investigations by the CID unit of the Karnataka police into the PSI recruitment exam scam, during the bail hearings over the past month has said that the scam will impact society at large and make people lose faith in the governance system.
The judge rejected the claims for bail made on the grounds of lack of evidence and the offences in the recruitment scam not being punishable with death or imprisonment for life. Read more
Squabbling in the Congress' Karnataka unit between leaders owing allegiance to state president D K Shivakumar and former chief minister Siddaramaiah over who should be the chief minister if the party comes to power in next year's Assembly elections continued with the former calling upon party members to "first work to bring the party to power".
Reacting to party MLA B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan's remark that people of the state wanted Siddaramaiah to be the next chief minister, Shivakumar asked everyone to "keep their mouths shut and work to bring the party to power".
"I will speak of only those who are of my level. Everyone should keep their mouth shut and work to bring the party to power," Shivakumar told reporters in response to Khan's statement expressing support for Siddaramaiah. (PTI)
The weatherman has forecasted widespread very light to light rains in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) area, till Sunday morning. Maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 28 & 21 degree Celsius respectively.
The weatherman has forecasted widespread light to moderate rains in coastal districts of Karnataka, scattered to widespread very light to moderate rains in Malnad districts and isolated to scattered very light to light rains in south interior Karnataka (SIK) and north interior Karnataka (NIK) districts, till Sunday morning.
According to the forecast, widespread very light to moderate rains are likely over Bengaluru Urban districts and isolated to scattered very light to light rains are likely over remaining districts of SIK.
Widespread very light to moderate rains are likely over Bidar and Kalaburagi districts and isolated to scattered very light to light rains are likely over the remaining districts of NIK.
While scattered to widespread very light to moderate rains are likely over Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu and Hassan districts, widespread very light to moderate rains are likely over Udupi, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada districts.
The department of public education on Saturday approved Rs 992.16 crore for the construction of over 6,600 new classrooms in primary schools and high schools in Karnataka.
Government school students across the state have been complaining about the crumbling infrastructure in schools for a long time now. During the start of the 2022-23 academic year, students, in an interaction with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on May 16, complained of water leakages and poor ceiling work in their classrooms. Read more
The Aam Aadmi Party held a protest condemning the decision of the police to give a clean chit to former minister K S Eshwarappa in the suicide case of contractor Santhosh Patil.
Speaking in the protest held at freedom park in Bengaluru, A A P Bengaluru Political Activities President Channappa Gowda Nallooru said, "The state government is trying to reinstate the tainted minister Eshwarappa in the Cabinet, and for this reason, it pressured the police to give him a clean chit. The police have confirmed that Santosh Patil had sent a death note on WhatsApp against Eshwarappa before committing suicide. Hence it is condemnable that Eshwarappa was given a clean chit without even conducting an inquiry. By this, the state B J P government has sent a bad message that it is in favor of the criminals."
The narration of history and all the tales associated with it has been a continuous process that has taken various forms over centuries. A Bengaluru-based civil engineer has now transformed the process by churning out brief riveting videos, shot on site, that draw in modern audiences and have helped him make a difference on the ground as well. Read more.
The wish of two critically ill boys to become police officers was fulfilled by the Bengaluru South East Division Police via NGO, Make a Wish. Mohd Salman from Kerala and Mithilesh from Bengaluru have been suffering from Cancer. ANI
The Bengaluru Meteorological center predicted a generally cloudy sky for the city and its neighbouring districts. Rain/thundershowers very likely. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 26 and 21 degree Celsius respectively.
BMRCL has become the first Metro in India to test 5G network under a Pilot Project of TRAI.
The 5G network radiated in 200 m radius, deployed by Reliance Jio at M G Road station. The test has achieved 1.45 Gbps download and 65 Mbps upload speeds, making it 50 times faster than 4G.
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