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Bangalore news Highlights: Visitors at Bangalore’s iconic Lalbagh Botanical Garden will soon get to know more on the origin, species and other details of several trees at their fingertips live, thanks to the authorities’ decision to install QR codes on trees in the next six months.
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According to officials of the horticulture department, QR codes will provide information to visitors on the height, width, age, texture, lifespan, and other vital points of each tree.
Meanwhile, Bengaluru city witnessed advancing monsoon on Sunday as several areas around MG Road, Koramangala and Lalbagh Road received heavy rain. HAL Airport recorded the highest rainfall (28 mm) until 7.30 pm on Sunday according to Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre (KSNDMC). Although three cases of tree fall were reported to BBMP from Mysore Bank Circle, Vannarpet and Mission Road, no damages were registered.
Meanwhile, the weatherman has predicted a fall in temperature in and around Bengaluru city today. According to the met department’s daily report, mercury levels are expected to be between 20 and 29 degree Celsius in the city on Monday. Rain is very likely in the city, mostly by evening.
After two persons fell to their death from the second floor of a pub in Church Street on Friday, Bengaluru Police said they will instruct building owners to install safety barriers to prevent such accidents.
READ: After Church Street pub accident, Bangalore Police want safety barriers on rooftops
Widespread moderate to heavy rains likely over Coastal Karnataka & scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rains with isolated heavy rains likely over NIK districts & isolated to scattered light to moderate rains over SIK & Malnad district
SIT finds gold mortgage documents of over 600 people at IMA office. Most of the documents belong to IMA staff and school teachers. The SIT has found around 50 Kgs of gold.
A 44-year-old daily wage worker allegedly attempted suicide on the third floor of the Vidhana Soudha building in Bangalore on Monday
R Revanna Kumar, who hails from Chickballapur, allegedly tried to slit his throat and wrist inside a restroom next to Room no. 332 of Karnataka’s Legislative Assembly building. A handwritten chit found alongside other several documents he was carrying demanded a rise in minimum wages, the police said. The 44-year-old man was rushed to Bowring hospital where he received first aid
READ: Man allegedly attempts suicide inside Karnataka Assembly, calls for raise in minimum wage
Following the death of two persons who fell off the second floor of a pub located in Church Street, in Bengaluru on Friday night, the police are taking looking into the safety regulations and procedures in pubs and bars in the city.
Speaking to Indianexpress.com, D Devaraj, DCP (central), said, “we will soon have a meeting with pub and restaurants owners and also with the civic agencies to avoid such accidents. We are coming up with specific suggestions to improve safety.”
A 22-year-old singer and dancer who fractured his spinal cord while attempting a stunt for popular mobile app TikTok recently died at a Bengaluru hospital on Sunday.
Read: Injured while performing stunt for TikTok, Karnataka youth dies in hospital
Karnataka BJP held Press meet in Vidhana Soudha demanding a CBI probe into IMA Scam. BJP MLA Aswathnarayan called IMA Fraud is the Saradha Chit Fund Scam of Karnataka.
SIT chief Ravikanthe Gowda reacts on Mansoor Khan’s video, says police are ready to give protection to the accused and his family members. He adds that they know the whereabouts of Khan but won’t reveal it since the probe is underway.
Pointing fingers to security arrangements at Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore, a man tried to commit suicide on the third floor of the building. Identified as R. Revanna Kumar hailing from Chickballapur, the man tried to slit his throat in a restroom next to Room no. 332 of Vidhana Soudha. Police officials rushed to the spot to take the 44-year-old man to a nearby hospital.
More details awaited.
Several areas including Ejipura, Balaji Nagar, Thigalarapalya Main Road, Madhura Nagar and Varthur face power cuts. According to BESCOM officials, the power has been switched off for maintenance works. Power will be restored by 3.30 pm
As private inter-state bus operators from #Kerala are on an indefinite strike protesting alleged "harassment of motor vehicle departments", the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation will operate 4 extra buses from Bangalore - one each to Ernakulam, Thrissur, Kannur and Palakkad.
Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa released a book criticising CM HD Kumaraswamy 's 'grama vastavya'. The state BJP chief alleges that the CM spends Rs 1.22 crore each day for the stay.
Children, youth and women participated in Kesard Onji Dina (a day in slushy water) organised by Shri Jnana Shakti Subramanya Swamy Temple, Pavanje at Bakimar paddy field in Mangaluru.
Karnataka Deputy CM G Parameshwara laid the foundation for a speciality eye hospital in Arasapura, Korategere on Monday. He also inaugurated an eye camp at the venue.
The demand for an intercity train on the Hospete-Bengaluru route via Ballari, Guntkal has been on since quite some time now. The online movement for the same requesting Railways MoS Suresh Angadi has been intensified now with more people joining the bandwagon.
Three members of a family including two women were killed and two others injured when the car in which they were travelling crashed into a tree in the early hours of Sunday at Magadi in Ramanagara district, police said. "A family of five was on the way from Sripathihalli in Magadi to Kunigal when the car crashed against a tree at a turning near Huchcha Hanumegowdanapalya village. The driver probably failed to judge that there was a curve," Ramanagara Superintendent of Police Chetan Singh Rathor told PTI. The injured have been admitted to a private hospital, he added.
Mandya MP Sumalatha remembered her husband and former politician and actor Ambareesh on Monday as the day marked seven months since his death. "7 months .. You were , are & always will be.. The centre of our universe The memories which make us laugh & cry The force which sustains our very life Miss you every moment," Sumalatha wrote on Twitter posting a family photograph.
Bengaluru city police arrested a 50-year-old Pakistani woman for overstaying her visa and for forging documents. Identified as Shabana Nasira residing in Siddapura, she held Indian citizenship before moving to Pakistan after marrying a Pakistani man. Interestingly, during her stay in India, she got an Aadhaar card, Voter ID, Ration Card, PAN card and other documents. The police is investigating the matter now.
Average air quality in Bengaluru is 'moderate'. At 9.30 am, PM 2.5 (Fine Particulate matter) is at an 'unhealthy' level if you are near Brigade Road, BTM Layout or Peenya. The same is at 'moderate' levels near Koramangala, Srirampura, and Ulsoor.
Five Bangalore girls will be travelling to Lyon later this month to take part in Festival 19, a 10-day event that will bring together disadvantaged youngsters from across the globe. Festival 19, which coincides with the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, seeks to empower women and girls through football. Parimala Honappa, Raksha Ramesh Kumar, Shylaja Naganoor, Divyashree Nanjappa and Sana Farheen are among one of the three delegations from India. Around 40 such delegations from 35 countries will feature in the event.
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Absconding chief of I Monetary Advisory (IMA) group Mohammed Mansoor Khan has released a video promising to return to India saying that he would expose several people in power including politicians and an IAS officer, who planned conspiracy to lead his business to bankruptcy. In the video shot from an undisclosed location, he claims that he left the country as he faced several life threats. Khan has also expressed his willingness to cooperate with the investigation, according to the video uploaded on YouTube by IMA group titled "IMA Mansoor's Message to CP Alok Kumar & Investors."
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted rains to continue in Bengaluru city on Monday. According to the daily forecast, rain is very likely in the city, mostly by evening. "Surface winds likely to be strong and gusty at times. Maximum and Minimum temperatures very likely to be around 29 and 20 degree Celsius respectively," reads the report.
Visitors at Bangalore’s iconic Lalbagh Botanical Garden will soon get to know more on the origin, species and other details of several trees at their fingertips live, thanks to the authorities’ decision to install QR codes on trees in the next six months. According to officials of the horticulture department, QR codes will provide information to visitors on the height, width, age, texture, lifespan, and other vital points of each tree. Lalbagh is home to over 19,000 trees with 2,850 species. Taxonomists are now on a survey to record tree details.