Bhaskar Rao was appointed new Bengaluru City Police Commissioner on Friday. (File)
Bangalore news August 2 highlights: The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has decided to tin more services between MG Road and Byappanahalli in the light of metro unavailability during the weekend. BMTC will run extra buses during late hours of August 3 (Saturday) and early hours of August 4 (Sunday) as metro services will be hit along this stretch due to regular maintenance works.
Meanwhile, the prime suspect of the multi-crore I Monetary Advisory (IMA) scam, Mohammed Mansoor Khan, has been remanded in judicial custody after he was produced before a court in Bangalore on Thursday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Khan will bear the registry number 7305 at the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, according to police officials. This took place after he was produced before the Principal City Civil and Sessions Court Judge Shivashankar B Amarannavar who remanded him in judicial custody.
*As the drought condition in the state is severe, CM directed the officials and DC’s to take up relief works like drinking water, fodder supply, employment guarantee schemes on a war footing.
*To encourage fodder growing in farmers’ lands, CM directed the officials to encourage fodder production in farms and as an incentive. "I have suggested that officials to purchase fodder grown by farmers at a cost of Rs. 4000/- a ton. Now it is Rs. 3000/- per ton," CM Yediyurappa said.
*Water conservation is the prime need of the hour, and CM directed officials to take up check dam construction in a massive way in the state.
*Steps have been taken to take up fill water at 10 barrages across Krishna river from Allamatti and Narayanapur Dams to meet water scarcity.
*CM also suggested officials to streamline food supply under Anna Bhagya scheme and check irregularities.
*Efforts are being made to streamline the administrative machinery and initiate stern action against officials who do not properly respond to public grievances.
*The DCs and CEOs are told to visit every taluka at least once in 15 days and attend to public grievances.
*The CM has directed senior officers including Chief Secretary to visit districts.
*Chief Secretary will visit districts once in a month and secretaries will visit districts at least two times in a month and review progress and inspect works.
*As many as 43.75 lakh declarations of farmers have been sent to Government of India under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. Out of this Rs. 634.50 Crore has been credited to 31.72 lakh eligible farmers’ accounts directly with Rs. 6000/- each. Government of Karnataka will soon release Rs. 2000 as the first installment to the accounts of these beneficiaries.
Bengaluru City Police Commissioner and Additional Director General of Police Alok Kumar on Friday was transferred with immediate effect. Bhaskar Rao, IPS , serving as the Additional Director General of Police, Karnataka State Reserve Police, Bengaluru will be replacing Kumar. Kumar, IPS, will be posted as Additional Director General of Police, Karnataka State Reserve Police.
Disqualified MLAs to meet their counsel Mukul Rohatgi over disqualification plea. Supreme Court likely to hear rebels plea on August 6.
Several areas in Bengaluru including Babusapalya, Punyabhoomi Layout, JP Nagar Phase 1, and surroundings are facing interruptions in power supply. According to BESCOM, the same is due to various works including feeder tripping, and other minor repairs. BESCOM officials informed that power supply will be restored in these areas by 3.30 pm.
Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa met top administrative officials from the state including Regional administrative heads, District Commissioners and other top officials in the state on Friday. The meeting was held in the Conference Room in Vidhana Soudha.
The Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru has been put on high alert in the light of the Independence Day week coming up. A passenger advisory has been published by the airport authorities indicating possible delays at the airport due to the same. The high alert will continue till August 15, according to airport officials.
Auria Kathi, supposedly the first Artifical Intelligence bot-artist, is on cloud nine as one of her artworks have been selected to be exhibited at the Florence Biennale in Italy. An innovation of Fabin Rasheed (a designer based in Bengaluru) and Sleeba Paul (an engineer from Kochi), the AI artist-poet was named so based on an anagram for AI Haiku Art, Auria’s inventors explain. “We started off trying to create a bot which continuously produced Haikus (to us this meant short poems). We wanted Auria to create poems which does not make complete sense in the beginning but has some meaning to it eventually,” Rasheed told Indianexpress.com. Read more
IMA fraud case prime accused Mansoor Khan has been admitted to Jayadeva hospital in Bengaluru. Mansoor Khan was earlier lodged in Parappana Agrahara jail.
BJP MLA Sriramulu says disqualified MLAs need to be accomodated in new government formation. They have resigned and have helped in the formation of BJP government and the party will have to accommodate them with cabinet berths. Sriramulu says BJP is also confident of winning all the 17 constituencies if and when bypolls are held.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to hold meeting with Karnataka Congrress leaders to elect opposition leader. Opposition leader likely to be elected after August 7.
Three police officials have been summoned for questioning in IMA scam. A former Deputy Commissioner of Police, an ACP along with an inspector have been issued notice for questioning. Details are awaited.
Metro Services to be disrupted from Byappanahalli to MG road owing to maintenance work. Services to be disrupted from 9:30 pm on Saturday till 11 am on Sunday.
Average air quality in Bengaluru is 'moderate'. At 9.50 am, PM 2.5 (Fine Particulate matter) is at an 'unhealthy' level if you are near Kadubeesanahalli. or Bapuji Nagar. The same is at 'moderate' levels near Koramangala, Mathikere, and Ulsoor.
Commissioner of Police of Mangaluru Sandeep Patil has been posted as the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Bengaluru city. B R Ravikanthe Gowda, who was also recently transferred to this post, has been transferred without any posting. However, he continues as the chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the IMA fraud case.
Owing to public demand, the Union Ministry of Railways will soon begin a train service on the Hubbali - Chennai route. Confirming the same, Dharwad MP and union minister Pralhad Joshi said that he received a letter from Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. "A bi-weekly service between the two cities will start soon," he said.
Several flights were delayed yesterday as synchronisation of numerous equipment got underway at the airport and is set to continue till Friday. Among the flights affected yesterday were IndiGo from Kolkata, Vijayawada and Colombo. AirAsia flights from Chandigarh and to Pune were also delayed.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials say that from June 1 to August 1, Bengaluru Urban district has recorded 28% deficit rainfall while Bengaluru Rural saw a 31% deficit. Bengaluru city received 171 mm rainfall from June 1 to August 1 as against the normal of 200 mm. As against the normal of 472 mm rainfall, Karnataka received 406 mm average rainfall.
V G Siddhartha, the founder of the Cafe Coffee Day chain who was found dead on the banks of a river near Mangaluru on Wednesday, had set out for Mumbai in the early 1980s with Rs 7.5 lakh he had borrowed from his coffee planter father. By 1985, the youth from Mudigere in Chikkamagaluru district-owned more than 10,000 acres of coffee farms in Malnad region. Of this, only 500 acres were his ancestral property.
The workers in his coffee plantations remembered him as a considerate and helpful employer. Dasappa, who has spent 35 years in the Chethanahalli estate, said, “I have seen Sidaddartha since his childhood days. He was humble and treated people with respect. He always supported us.” Read more
Mohammed Mansoor Khan, the prime accused in the multi-crore I Monetary Advisory (IMA) scam, will bear the registry number 7305 at the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, according to police officials.
He was remanded in judicial custody after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) produced him before a court on Thursday. This took place after he was produced before the Principal City Civil and Sessions Court Judge Shivashankar B Amarannavar who remanded him in judicial custody.