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The signal-free corridor on West of Chord Road has been beautifully executed. Surprised both ends don't choke on landing unlike how 'experts' fear. I believe AQI & sound pollution levels on Chord Road surface roads have also reduced. Bengaluru requires more such corridors, elevoptimise carrying capacity.
@bengalurupost1 @naveenmzs @vinodblru @solidview. Well done @nimmasuresh 👏🙏 photo: Salem DD
@bengalurupost1 @naveenmzs @vinodblru @solidview. Well done @nimmasuresh 👏🙏 photo: Salem DD
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🚨 BIG TWIST IN KARNATAKA STING OPERATION ROW!
Siddaramaiah has accused Congress leader Kripa Alva and Power TV's Rakesh Shetty of being behind the controversial sting operation allegedly aimed at blackmailing and defaming him
Shetty has already faced police questioning and l
Allegations have now brought a Congress leader directly into the controversy...When asked if the sting operation had been carried out for political reasons, Siddaramaiah said, "'Investigation is on. Investigation has to reveal whether it is those from our own party or ones from other parties"
deccanherald.com/india/karnatak…
Siddaramaiah has accused Congress leader Kripa Alva and Power TV's Rakesh Shetty of being behind the controversial sting operation allegedly aimed at blackmailing and defaming him
Shetty has already faced police questioning and l
Allegations have now brought a Congress leader directly into the controversy...When asked if the sting operation had been carried out for political reasons, Siddaramaiah said, "'Investigation is on. Investigation has to reveal whether it is those from our own party or ones from other parties"
deccanherald.com/india/karnatak…
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A Bengaluru couple was killed on the spot while the woman’s sister and a truck driver were injured in a major collision between a Mercedes car and a truck near Amigos Junction at Durgini, Dharbandora, between around 1 pm and 1.30 pm on Friday.
The deceased were Saumen, 53, and th residents of Bengaluru. Saumen was driving the car, while Sindhu was seated in the front passenger seat.
Sindhu’s sister Seema, 53, who was travelling in the rear seat, suffered serious injuries in the crash. Truck driver Nagraj was also injured.
The Mercedes was reportedly travelling from Bengaluru towards Goa to drop Seema at Vasco, while the truck was coming from the opposite direction towards Dharbandora. The collision badly damaged both vehicles.
The deceased were Saumen, 53, and th residents of Bengaluru. Saumen was driving the car, while Sindhu was seated in the front passenger seat.
Sindhu’s sister Seema, 53, who was travelling in the rear seat, suffered serious injuries in the crash. Truck driver Nagraj was also injured.
The Mercedes was reportedly travelling from Bengaluru towards Goa to drop Seema at Vasco, while the truck was coming from the opposite direction towards Dharbandora. The collision badly damaged both vehicles.
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A few people from Bihar went to a shop in Tumkur, Karnataka, and had tea. When the shopkeeper asked for payment, they brought a JCB and threatened to demolish his shop.
Simply amazing
Simply amazing
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Moral of the story: Never climb a coconut tree when chased by a leopard!! Tumkur, Karnataka...the 🐆 got off the tree and went back into the forest before it was reported.
@aranya_kfd @NewIndianXpress @XpressBengaluru @KannadaPrabha @ns_subhash @BoskyKhanna Another video shows people being close to the wild cat
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Senior Government Veterinarian Assaulted, Official Vehicle Blocked During Tumakuru Leopard Rescue Operation
Tumakuru, Karnataka
A #wildlife rescue operation turned violent on Thursday morning after an agitated mob allegedly assaulted a senior government veterinary officer, nts from carrying out their duties, and blocked an official vehicle at Thimmasandra village in Hebbur Hobli of #Tumakuru.
The Hebbur police have booked 10 to 15 unidentified villagers under multiple provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) following a formal complaint lodged by Dr. Prayag H. S., Assistant Director of Veterinary Medical Services at Bannerghatta Biological Park.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), Dr. Prayag had been deputed by the Principal Chief Conservator of #Forests (Wildlife) to supervise the health and handling of three elephants participating in the Tumakuru Dasara festival. On the morning of October 22, local Range Forest Officer (RFO) Basavaraju alerted him that a #leopard had strayed into a private coconut grove belonging to a farmer named Ashwath in Thimmasandra village, requesting his urgent presence on-site for potential chemical immobilization.
Dr. Prayag, along with forest department officials,including Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) Pavithra V., field personnel, and volunteers from the Wildlife Aware Rescue NGO,rushed to the location to coordinate the operation. As per established standard operating procedures (SOPs), officials initiated inter-departmental coordination to bring in additional police personnel to control a gathering crowd of over 50 local residents.
The situation escalated rapidly around 8:47 AM when a subgroup of 10 to 15 individuals allegedly instigated the crowd, demanding an immediate capture. Despite repeated warnings from ACF Pavithra, Koratagere Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. Shreedhar Reddy, and local police about the grave safety risk of provoking a cornered wild animal, the mob turned aggressive, issuing verbal threats and shouting, "Catch the leopard right now, or else we will strip your clothes off!"
Amid the chaos and loud shouting, the trapped feline descended the coconut tree and escaped into the surrounding landscape. Enraged by the escape, members of the mob surrounded Dr. Prayag, pushed him, and assaulted him by striking his back with their hands while hurling verbal abuse. When the veterinarian attempted to depart for medical attention in an official departmental vehicle, the mob unlawfully barricaded the pathway and prevented the vehicle from leaving the scene.
Following the incident, Dr. Prayag submitted a complaint at the Hebbur police station. Police registered case under Sections 126(2),115(2),221, 132,352,189(2) and 190 of the BNS.
@SPTumkur @aranya_kfd @bannerghattazoo
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The shocking story of Cyanide Mohan
openthemagazine.com/features/india… click here tonread an earlier version
openthemagazine.com/features/india… click here tonread an earlier version
A mild-mannered primary school teacher proposed marriage to unmarried women without asking for dowry, spent one night in a lodge, and handed them a "contraceptive pill" outside public bus stand washrooms—leaving 20 women dead from cyanide poisoning.
The reason might surprise 2009, a baffling pattern of unattended deaths troubled police across Karnataka and neighboring states.
Young women from lower-middle-class families were turning up dead inside the cubicles of public washrooms at major KSRTC bus stands in Mysuru, Madikeri, Hassan, and Bengaluru.
Each scene looked identical:
The victims showed zero external injuries, signs of physical struggle, or weapon wounds.
Their gold jewelry, handbags, identity proofs, and cash were gone.
Beside them lay only a tiny, empty plastic capsule foil or a sachet.
Local police precincts initially treated the deaths as isolated suicides caused by failed love affairs, closing the case files without connecting the dots across district borders.
Behind this calculated routine stood Mohan Kumar—a 46-year-old physical education teacher from Bantwal, known chillingly to forensic history as "Cyanide Mohan."
His modus operandi was a masterclass in exploiting social vulnerability:
The Target: He scouted bus stations and temple towns looking for unmarried women in their late twenties or thirties facing difficulty finding grooms due to societal pressure or heavy dowry demands.
The Pitch: Presenting himself as a respectable, eligible bachelor under various false Hindu and Muslim aliases (Anand, Sudhir, Shashidhar), he claimed to be an influential government official. He won over their trust by promising immediate marriage without demanding a single rupee of dowry.
The Setup: He convinced the women to elope with him, instructing them to wear their finest bridal sarees and carry all their family gold ornaments. He took them to out-of-town lodges, spent the night, and convinced them to leave their jewelry in the room the next morning before visiting a nearby temple for wedding rituals.
The "Pill": On the way, near a crowded bus stand, he handed them a capsule, falsely claiming it was a pregnancy prevention pill to avoid conceiving before the wedding ceremony. To avoid vomiting, he instructed them to swallow it inside the private washroom with a sip of water.
The capsule was packed with industrial-grade potassium cyanide, sourced from local goldsmiths under the pretext of cleaning silver ornaments.
Within seconds of ingestion, the cyanide paralyzed cellular respiration. As the victims collapsed inside locked cubicles, Mohan walked back to the lodge, packed up their gold and cash, and caught the next outbound bus.
The five-year killing spree collapsed in October 2009:
A 22-year-old woman named Anitha from Barimar went missing after leaving home for a temple.
Her family relentlessly tracked her call records. When police analyzed the phone logs, they noticed a recurring number that had gone silent the day of her disappearance.
Detectives traced the handset tower pings to Deralakatte near Mangaluru, leading to Mohan Kumar’s arrest on October 21, 2009.
When police raided his quarters, they recovered:
8 packets containing raw cyanide powder.
Multiple fake identity cards, voter IDs, and over 100 mobile SIM cards used to groom victims.
Piles of gold jewelry pawn receipts.
Under sustained interrogation, Mohan confessed to luring and murdering 20 women across Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
His judicial trials set historical legal benchmarks:
Between 2013 and 2020, Mohan Kumar was tried in 20 separate murder cases, securing convictions in all of them—including five death penalties (later commuted to life imprisonment without remission) and multiple life terms.
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Plan your day. And night Bengaluru on TGIF!!
FRIDAY [23-OCT] WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR KARNATAKA
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GM All. We are in Peak NEM Phase for Southern Peninsula.
Overall Setup:
LPA is visible in Bay of Bengal across SE and adj East-Central region. Its likely to move in a WNW direction and intensify in SE Arabian Sea off Kerala coastline. Its likely to linger off Kerala coast for another 2 days and then move in to Kerala and dissipate.
Outlook:
Possibility for widespread light to moderate rains [10mm to 60mm] across DK, UDUPI, UK, Kodagu, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, Mandya, Mysuru, Bengaluru, CB Pura, Tumakuru, Kolar, Chamarajanagara, Chitradurga, Davanagere and Ballari Districts.
Few places in this zone can record heavy rains [> 80mm]
Isolated light rain possibility across Rest of the State.
#KarnatakaRains
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Herrenknecht could be one reason India can breathe somewhat easier despite China’s TBM curbs.
The German tunnelling major makes machines here in Chennai and holds a 40–45% share of the Indian market.
About half of the 70–100 TBMs at work across our metros, rail lines and German-made. A local manufacturing base for a machine this critical is supply-chain insurance, and it pays off when Beijing tightens the screws.
But it’s only a cushion. India will need around 340 TBMs by 2035, an investment of roughly ₹1.02 lakh crore. Hopefully efforts like BEML’s push to build indigenous TBMs, from 6 m to 16.5 m in diameter, bear fruit soon. via @businessline
The German tunnelling major makes machines here in Chennai and holds a 40–45% share of the Indian market.
About half of the 70–100 TBMs at work across our metros, rail lines and German-made. A local manufacturing base for a machine this critical is supply-chain insurance, and it pays off when Beijing tightens the screws.
But it’s only a cushion. India will need around 340 TBMs by 2035, an investment of roughly ₹1.02 lakh crore. Hopefully efforts like BEML’s push to build indigenous TBMs, from 6 m to 16.5 m in diameter, bear fruit soon. via @businessline
The full picture on Chinese export controls is sharper than just TBMs alone.
The licence rule applies to exports to “sensitive countries and regions in dispute with China.”
The list also covers walking excavators and plateau shotcrete machines used above 3,000 metres.Basically ds roads and tunnels as part of India's massive infrastructure buildout in Himalayas.
Beijing has also put controls on drone autopilots and engines, and last week floated a draft to restrict 40+ technologies, including next-gen solar manufacturing.
Every sector where India is trying to cut dependence on China is now a chokepoint.
Just need to face it and build it here, and build it fast. via @businessline
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This is the headline I would have loved to see in Bengaluru-based newspapers...somehow they seem to lack clarity and a bit of credibility. What da ya think @GauthamMachaiah?
HD Kumaraswamy takes the lead as Karnataka BJP struggles to find its voice indianexpress.com/article/politi…
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Some media organisations report that the Union Home Secretary has tendered an unconditional apology to the Honourable Supreme Court in response to a contempt notice. In this regard, this is to state:
Whenever a contempt notice is issued by the Honourable Supreme Court, it is required that the party responding to the notice must begin their affidavit with an unconditional apology. Only thereafter all other facts and arguments are presented. This is mandatorily followed in every contempt petition.
Following this practice, the first paragraph of the affidavits filed by the Home Secretary, Commissioner of Police, and other concerned officials complied with this requirement.
Thereafter, detailed particulars in the affidavit have been furnished, by which it has been clearly established that all actions taken by the Government and the Police are fully compliant with the law, and no case of contempt is made out against them.
Whenever a contempt notice is issued by the Honourable Supreme Court, it is required that the party responding to the notice must begin their affidavit with an unconditional apology. Only thereafter all other facts and arguments are presented. This is mandatorily followed in every contempt petition.
Following this practice, the first paragraph of the affidavits filed by the Home Secretary, Commissioner of Police, and other concerned officials complied with this requirement.
Thereafter, detailed particulars in the affidavit have been furnished, by which it has been clearly established that all actions taken by the Government and the Police are fully compliant with the law, and no case of contempt is made out against them.
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Bengaluru's AQI👇Thanks @DeccanHerald
I was just causally browsing my phone and this caught my 👀. Today's AQI in Bengaluru is 115!! Is that good or bad for an October morning??
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One needs to have lots of patience to eat sitaphal! Just like having lots of patience to drive in Bengaluru traffic!!
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Dasara procession turns to tragedy in Shivamogga. The elephant carrying the Ambari runs amok across the streets damaging buildings and vehicles before coming to a halt as the 650 kilo silver ambari it was carrying falls down.
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Smart mantri takes train to Mysuru!! Shuns entourage!! Way to go @krishnabgowda!! @ravikeerthi22 @siri_mysuru
ಮೈಸೂರು ದಸರಾ ಕೇವಲ ಒಂದು ಹಬ್ಬವಲ್ಲ; ಇದು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಶ್ರೀಮಂತ ಪರಂಪರೆ, ಸುದೀರ್ಘ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ ಮತ್ತು ನಾಡಿನ ಜನರ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ಸಂಭ್ರಮದ ಪ್ರತೀಕ.
ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ನಾಡಹಬ್ಬ ಮೈಸೂರು ದಸರಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಲ್ಗೊಳ್ಳಲು ಮೈಸೂರಿನತ್ತ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ವೈಭವ, ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ ಮತ್ತು ನಾಡಿನ ಏಕತೆಯನ್ನು ಸಾರುವ ಈ ಅದ್ಧೂರಿ ಆಚರಣೆಯ .
Mysuru Dasara is more than a festival; it is a celebration of Karnataka’s rich heritage, timeless traditions and the spirit of its people.
On our way to Mysuru to be part of this historic Nada Habba, we look forward to celebrating a tradition that brings Karnataka together in all its cultural splendour and pride.
#MysuruDasara #NammaKarnataka
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Oh this cute smiles
A heartwarming viral video shared by Hyderabad businessman Nishant Saboo captured a sweet gesture at a luxury car showroom. After spotting two uniformed schoolchildren admiring a Lamborghini from outside, the owner warmly invited them inside, letting staff click their memorable ercars and winning hearts across social media.
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Traditions that keep our heritage and culture alive. ❤️
Dasara Gombe! 🪆✨
Some traditions don’t just get passed down they keep our roots connected across generations.
Dasara Gombe! 🪆✨
Some traditions don’t just get passed down they keep our roots connected across generations.
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Ever seen a lady in a saree firing an AK-47? Forget the merits of it, first in my bloodline!!
Ankita Sharma, an IPS officer currently posted as Superintendent of Police (SP) of Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, was seen firing an AK-47 during the Vijayadashami celebrations. Such an act is reckless and reflects a complete disregard for the safety of people in the vicinity. x.com/RatanRanjan_/s…
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