Bengaluru News Live: This will be in addition to the 3,500 men and women personnel of the paramilitary force already deployed at the KIA. (File)Bengaluru News Highlights: The recently expanded Bengaluru International airport will get an additional 1,700 CISF personnel to for security reasons, reported PTI. This deployment that was sanctioned by the Central government was to provide anti-terror cover to the international airport. This will be in addition to the 3,500 men and women personnel of the paramilitary force already deployed at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in the capital city, an official said.
In other news, urging people to vote for the BJP to form a government with an absolute majority in Karnataka by placing trust in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said every vote cast in favour of JD(S) would end up helping the Congress and making it win. Doubling its focus on a region where it is already dominant, the BJP Saturday held a large Vijay Sankalp rally in Karnataka’s Belagavi with Amit Shah calling on voters to choose between a patriotic, nationalist BJP and dynastic parties like the Congress and JDS.
Meanwhile, students of a Karnataka government-run SC/ST hostel were evicted allegedly after they staged a protest in front of the Ballari district deputy commissioner’s (DC) residence over “poor quality of food” served at the establishment. The incident has also triggered ire against the district administration. According to sources, residents of the hostel in Ballari town for students from Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe communities complained to their warden Shivappa on Wednesday after they were served poor-quality chicken curry. The warden said he would look into the matter and asked the students to go to their rooms.
School students showcase their talent at science expo (Express)
Ulsoor Lake (Express photo by Jithendra M)
Bengaluru’s Orchids The International School, whose management has been booked for allegedly admitting students to Classes 9 and 10 at its Nagarbhavi branch without government approval, said Monday that it followed all the relevant rules and that its admission process was fully transparent .
“All of our schools have the required affiliation to operate in the state. Class 9 of our schools have CBSE/ICSE affiliation. Our recently opened schools are proposed to be CBSE schools in future and are undergoing the affiliation process by getting all the approvals/ permissions/ recognitions in place,” read the statement. Read more
The Bengaluru traffic police in a letter have warned the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) that they will seize the vehicles of the transport corporation if the latter fails to clear pending fines amounting to Rs 1.30 crore.
According to the traffic police, BMTC buses were involved in 24,562 violations in the last three years. The outstanding pending fine amount is a staggering Rs 13,313,800. Read more
Non-profit think-tank Urban Works Institute in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainability at Ramaiah Institute of Management has launched ‘The Bus4us BuzzFest’ – an inter-college competition for sharing ideas on transforming the image of buses in Bengaluru.
The BuzzFest features a range of contests, including a photography contest, poster-making competition, and social media competitions like reel creations which the students have to submit by March 7. Read more
Two days after Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Sharan Pumpwell bragged that Mohammed Fazil was killed to ‘avenge’ the murder of BJP leader Praveen Nettaru, the slain youth’s father Umar Farooq has approached Mangaluru police with a complaint to investigate former’s role in the crime.
Farooq lodged a complaint in this regard with Mangaluru City Police Commissioner N Shashi Kumar on Monday. Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Karnataka on February 6 to participate in programmes organised in Bengaluru and Tumakuru.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate India Energt Week at Bengaluru’s International Exhibition Centre, near Madavara.
PM Modi will then proceed to Biderahalli Kaval in Tumakuru District in the afternoon and dedicate the Helicopter factory of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to the nation and lay the foundation stone for Jal Jeevan Mission Projects at Chikka Nayakana Halli and Tiptur.
Amid the ongoing personal tussle with D K Shivakumar, former minister and BJP MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi Monday sought the arrest of the Karnataka Congress chief and six others in connection with a case filed by him over an alleged sex CD in 2021.
That year, Jarkiholi was forced to quit as the state’s water resources minister after the alleged sex CD featuring him and a woman was aired on local television channels. He was accused of rape by the woman after the CD was aired. Jarkiholi had then filed a counter-complaint with the police, saying he was being extorted by an unidentified gang that recorded the sex video. Read more
A Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader in Karnataka Saturday defended the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Sharan Pumpwell, a provincial secretary of the VHP, said: “We have killed 2,000 people as revenge for the murder of 59 kar sevaks.”
Pumpwell made the remark while attending the Shaurya Yathre event of Bajrang Dal held in Tumakuru Saturday. Read more
Customs officials in Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) have arrested a woman who allegedly tried to smuggle cocaine worth Rs 7 crore by hiding it in her entrails.
The arrested woman, 40, is from Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa, according to officials. The woman had boarded a flight in Guinea after swallowing the capsules and landed in Bengaluru via Dubai on January 14 on an Emirates flight, they added. Read more
The All India Students Association (AISA) held a screening of the BBC documentary related to the 2002 Gujarat riots in the central business district of Bengaluru, which was attended by nearly 45 students from various colleges in the city.
This came after the BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, was blocked by the Centre using the emergency provisions of the Information Technology Rules, 2021. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had directed YouTube and Twitter to take down links sharing the BBC documentary, which focuses on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his then-state government’s response to the 2002 Gujarat riots. The government’s directions to block it had drawn a sharp response from Opposition parties which said it was “censorship”. Read more
After a day of warm weather in Bengaluru on Sunday, the minimum temperature is expected to drop below normal again over the next couple of days amid a cold wave in northern India.
Bengaluru recorded a maximum temperature of 29.7 degrees celsius – one degree above normal – and a minimum of 18 degrees celsius – two degrees above normal on Sunday – according to data from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) for the city. Read more.
After the flight in which former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah was to travel from Delhi to Srinagar was canceled due to heavy snowfall in Kashmir, the congress leader may not be participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra alongside Rahul Gandhi.
While the ChatGPT fever has gripped youngsters across the globe, in Bengaluru however, the AI agent could land you in trouble. Many private universities in Bengaluru are beginning to crack down on ChatGPT, which has become popular among the student community.
Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT developed by OpenAI, is an open-source platform that can write papers, articles and essays with proficiency, after a simple command. And this service is available to anyone with an internet connection, for free. Read more.
Justifying the killings that took place in coastal Karnataka last year, Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Sharan Pumpwell during Shourya Yatra held at Tumakuru said, 'In order to respond the murder of Praveen Nettaru, Youths in Surathkal killed him; not in an isolated place but in an open market.This is the power of Hindu youths.'
More schemes will be chalked out in the next budget, said Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Speaking after distributing various facilities free of cost organised by various departments here on Sunday, he said Chamarajanagar MP V.Srinivasaprasad has displayed humanity. Usually the state and union Governments schemes are distributed to the beneficiaries by young leaders but veteran politician like Srinivasaprasad took lot of interest to hold this camp, personally identified the beneficiaries and got distributed the facilities for them.
On 29/01/2023 Shri Manjunath M. Driver, B. no. 697, Sira Depot, Tumkir Divison was operating on the Sira - Nagappanahalli Gate route in Schedule No. 31 at about 2:15 a.m. While on operating bus he noticed two girls drowning in the Handikunte Agrahara Lake, immediately he stopped the bus and jumped into the lake and saved the lives of the two girls.
Mr. V. Anbukkumar IAS , Managing Director, KSRTC expressed his heartfelt wishes to the driver for saving two precious lives, and appreciated the humanitarian and timely work of the said driver and described his exemplary work as unique. These types of service of our driving staff is the pride and honor of the organization, and they are our assets, said the Managing Director.
The 7-km Srirangapatna bypass road on the Bengaluru-Mysury Expressway has been completed and opened for traffic, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha announced in a tweet Saturday. Read More
The Congress in Karnataka is likely to follow in the footsteps of party governments in Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh by announcing a return to the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for government employees, in the event of the party being elected to power in the 2023 Assembly elections. Read More
IN A sign that Karnataka BJP leaders are unsure about going to polls under Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s leadership and that B S Yediyurappa continues to enjoy popularity in the state, a section of MLAs in the Karnataka BJP are seeking the presence of the former CM at events in their constituencies, in the run-up to the state Assembly polls. Read More
Veteran comedian in the Kannada film industry Mandeep Roy passed away here due to cardiac arrest on Sunday morning, family sources said. He was 74. (PTI)
A 16-year-old girl was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the washroom of a house in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, police said on Sunday. (PTI)
Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bomma took to Twitter to pay tributes to Belagavi-based Wing Commander Hanumanta Rao Sarathi who died in a fighter plane crash during training in Gwalior.
A 32-year-old woman, along with her three children, died by suicide after jumping into a water sump on Saturday night in Tikota taluk of Vijayapura district.
The deceased were identified as Geetha Ramu Chauhan, her children Srusti (6), Kishan (3) and Samarth (4). According to police sources, Geetha had fought with her husband Ramu on Saturday night over domestic issues. Following a heated argument, Geetha tossed all three children into the sump and she also fell into it.
The police said that Ramu was sleeping inside the house when the incident took place.
The Congress in Karnataka is likely to follow in the footsteps of party governments in Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh by announcing a return to the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for government employees, in the event of the party being elected to power in the 2023 Assembly elections.
Although there has been no formal announcement or election promise of a return to the OPS as yet, several feelers have been given by party leaders in the past few weeks — including an assurance by state Congress chief D K Shivakumar that he was on the side of government employees, during a protest held in December in Bengaluru for the OPS. Know more...
Doubling its focus on a region where it is already dominant, the BJP Saturday held a large Vijay Sankalp rally in Karnataka’s Belagavi with party leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah calling on voters to choose between a patriotic, nationalist BJP and dynastic parties like the Congress and JDS.
The rally in north Karnataka’s Kittur Karnataka region, where the BJP won 30 of 50 seats in 2018, is seen as part of efforts by the party to push hard in regions where it is traditionally strong to maintain caste equations and avoid a situation where it falls short of a clear majority. Read more here
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested seven passengers, including a woman, for allegedly smuggling 18 endangered animals in their baggage at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru a few days ago. (PTI)
From housing prominent officials of British India, diwans of erstwhile Mysuru kingdom and some of the notable chief ministers of Karnataka, the 170-year-old Balabrooie Guest House, nestled in the heart of the city, has been a veritable symbol of Bengaluru’s rich heritage. Read how