Entry and exit to Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru is likely to be delayed on August 6 due to upgrade-related work going on in the airport. Express Photo
Bangalore news August 6 highlights: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa conducted an aerial survey in the flood-hit areas of North Karnataka. The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) observed that many villages were submerged and floods have caused heavy losses to agriculture crops and other properties and houses. People and cattle are stranded.
At the same time, incessant rains in Maharashtra and North Karnataka has severely affected the living of thousands in Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Yadagiri, and Raichur districts in Karnataka, the Karnataka government confirmed on Sunday.
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Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa will leave for Delhi this night on a four-day trip to the national capital. The new CM will meet Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, PM Modi, other Union ministers and top leaders of the BJP during his visit. He will also call upon MPs from Karnataka during the same.
Several areas in Bengaluru including Gangondanahally, Chandra Layout, BCC Layout, Attiguppe, Weavers Layout and surroundings are facing interruptions in power supply. According to BESCOM, the same is due to feeder trip and various repair works taking place in the power lines in these areas. BESCOM officials informed that power supply will be restored in these areas by 4.30 pm.
Train no. 19567 Tuticorin (TN) - Okha Vivek Express has been diverted to Manmad Jn (MMR) - Surat (ST) in the light of heavy rains in Mumbai.
Karnataka Congress: If there is a lack of quality of work in the previous alliance government, let's check. However, it is not right to impede development.
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
At 11 am, the temperature in Bangalore is 24 degree-Celsius. As the city witnesses a generally cloudy sky. weathermen predict light rains very likely, by evening. "Surface winds very likely to be strong and gusty at times. Maximum & Minimum temperatures very likely to be around 28 and 20 degree Celsius respectively," indicates IMD's forecast for the day.
Average air quality in Bengaluru is 'moderate'. At 10.35 am, PM 2.5 (Fine Particulate matter) is at an 'unhealthy' level if you are near Kadubeesanahalli. or Mathikere. The same is at 'moderate' levels near Koramangala, Bapuji Nagar, and Ulsoor.
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The Sri Radha Krishna ISKCON Temple located at Rajajinagar, in North Bangalore has deities of Radha and Krishna. It is one of the largest ISKCON temples in the world.
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Rajya Sabha MP GC Chandrashekhar has written to the Bengaluru urban district collector to issue sanctions for him to take up the renovation works of the dilapidated Govt Higher Primary School, Thimmaiah Road, Shivajinagar.
CM BS Yediyurappa has directed district administrations need to take up rescue and relief operations on war-footing and to ensure the safety of the lives of human and cattle. As an immediate relief measure, DCs have been directed to make arrangements to provide food, clothing, blankets and other amenities to the victims while fodder should be provided for cattle.
"Rescue operations must gain full swing with the help of NDRF, SDRF, Military and other forces. As there is a forecast of heavy rains in these flood-affected districts necessary precautionary measures also must be taken," CM Yediyurappa said in a video conference with top administrators of the flood-hit districts.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the multi-crore IMA scam has found that the main suspect Mohammed Mansoor Khan maintained records on his computer of bribes he paid officials. The names of several top police officers who served in the eastern jurisdiction of Bengaluru city, where the IMA Group is located, are present in the records maintained by the alleged scamster, multiple police sources familiar with details of records found on Khan’s electronic gadgets said. Read more
VG Siddhartha's CCD brand carried the tagline ‘A lot can happen over coffee’. And for V G Siddhartha, it did. How then did the 21-yr-old heir of a fortune who decided to carve own path, gave India its first coffee chain, was among the first to spot the IT trend, cashed in on Bengaluru’s real estate boom, and moved among the powers and shakers, end up as a 60-yr-old broken man on a bridge? Read more
Karnataka Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao: With the Indian economy in turmoil, the centre is playing out a dangerous game in Kashmir. Fear has gripped the people of J&K & as the Union Cabinet meets, an unprecedented tense situation is emerging. I wonder towards where is India heading?
The heightened uncertainty in the Valley took a turn for the worse as the government late Sunday night imposed restrictions under Section 144 of the CrPC in Srinagar district and placed the top leadership of the state — NC leaders Omar and Farooq Abdullah, and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, among others — under house arrest. Internet services were entirely shut down in several parts of the Valley. Read more
The Karnataka Chief Minister's Office (CMO) has clarified that CM Yediyurappa will not be doing an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas in Belgaum. Clarifying the reason for the same, the CMO issued a statement which reads, "It is hereby clarified that the authorities have advised not to do so as the weather condition is not conducive in Belgaum district for aerial survey."