Bengaluru

Migrant workers in Bengaluru get free meals twice a day; Karnataka govt, Swiggy make it happen

The state govt has partnered with Swiggy and created the Dasoha 2020 project, which helps the Govt deliver food to needy people in Bengaluru.

Apr 8, 2020

Photojournalist helps distressed tourist, lands in COVID-19 isolation

Anantha Subramanyam was asked to self-isolate after he helped a Frenchman who was later tested positive for coronavirus.

Apr 6, 2020

During lockdown, Bengaluru Police gives 250 patrol vehicles for public emergency

The police force has turned their official patrol vehicles for public usage. People with urgent needs can utilise the police vehicles hereafter.

Apr 3, 2020

ASHA workers attacked by mob while on duty to check houses for coronavirus symptoms in Bengaluru

ASHA workers including a nurse have been attacked by a minority community in Bengaluru's Sadiq layout for trying to carry out tests on the novel coronavirus symptoms.

Apr 2, 2020

Bengaluru man who survived coronavirus shares his experience: Mental health, survival tactics

Venkat Raghava, who was admitted at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) in Bengaluru, shares his success story of battling coronavirus.

Apr 1, 2020

A Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice B.V. Nagarathna, hearing PIL petitions through videoconferencing facility on Monday

Karnataka HC tells DG&IGP to follow Bengaluru Police Commissioner's path for lockdown measures

The Karnataka High Court asks the state police force to issue a circular to all police personnel to model Bengaluru city police in restraining from using lathis and to behave with courtesy with citizens while enforcing the lockdown.

Mar 31, 2020

Apply for Bengaluru Covid-19 movement pass online; City Police goes digital

In an attempt to go digital, Karnataka State Police has come up with an e-pass initiative for anyone who wants to make a trip to the grocery store, medical store, hospital, petrol pump, will now have an option of applying for a curfew pass.

Mar 29, 2020

Coronavirus fear: Jayanagar couple strikes panic among residents over COVID-19, MLA urges people not to panic

A couple from Jayanagar area awaits test result for COVID-19; roams about freely in vicinity creating panic and anger among netizens.

Mar 26, 2020

Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao

Bengaluru Police to ensure free flow of essential commodities; CP calls stakeholders meet

Bengaluru city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao, IPS on Wednesday, March 25 called for a meeting with stakeholders and aggregators of essential commodities in order to issue duty pass for them to move about in the city.

Mar 25, 2020

Karnataka announces partial lockdown till March 31 as COVID-19 cases soar to 324 in India

Only essential services will be allowed in Bengaluru (Urban and rural), Belagavi, Kalburgi, Dharwad, Chikkaballapur, Kodagu, Mangaluru, and Mysuru.

Mar 22, 2020

MP govt crisis: 20 former rebel Congress MLAs leaving Bengaluru for Bhopal

About 20 former rebel Congress MLAs of Madhya Pradesh would be leaving for Bhopal on Saturday, by a chartered aircraft after a 12-day stay at the resorts in the city's northern outskirts, a source said.

Mar 21, 2020

Fake hand sanitiser racket busted: Bengaluru Police seizes 8,500 bottles from 2 godowns

After raiding and seizing stock of almost 200 medical shops in Bengaluru city for selling masks and hand sanitisers at exorbitant prices, Bengaluru city crime branch police has now raided two godowns and seized 8,500 fake santisers.

Mar 20, 2020

Bengaluru PG girl who returned from London tests positive for coronavirus

The woman infected with COVID-19 is an IT professional in Bengaluru. She has a travel history to London.

Mar 20, 2020

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Coronavirus leaves streets of Bengaluru nearly desolate

The coronavirus pandemic has helped in achieving what years of stringent traffic control measures have failed — empty streets with no traffic congestions.

Mar 19, 2020

MP govt crisis: High drama unfolds as Digvijaya Singh gets detained for trying to meet rebel MLAs in Bengaluru

Ahead of the apex court hearing on the Madhya Pradesh political crisis, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh who reached Bengaluru on Wednesday, March 18 tried to go to Ramada Hotel was put in custody.

Mar 18, 2020

Covid-19: Bengaluru's IISc announces 15-day lockdown

All academic, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities including classes, examinations, seminars, libraries and project works in the nation's premier institute to be shut for 15 days, in effect from March 14.

Mar 16, 2020

East Bengaluru residents in a fix after water tanker operators call for strike till March 20

Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) said it will provide water if the residents arrange for the water tankers for transportation.

Mar 16, 2020

Coronavirus in Bengaluru: Infosys vacates its office after employee comes in contact with a COVID-19 suspect

The IT giant Infosys has on Friday, 13 March, suspended its Bengaluru office, evacuating its entire staff after one of its employees came in contact with a suspected coronavirus case. The company informed that the office was sanitized as a "precautionary measure".

Mar 14, 2020

Bengaluru schools, colleges, cinemas shut for a week amid Covid-19 fears: CM Yediyurappa

During an emergency meeting of State Ministers and senior officials, over Coronavirus, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said that all malls, cinema halls, pubs, wedding ceremonies and other large gatherings have been banned for a week.

Mar 13, 2020

Karnataka ADGP, Senior IPS officer Charan Reddy passes away

Senior IPS officer, ADGP, CID Charan Reddy passed away in Bengaluru on March 13 at Mahaveer Jain Hospital. Scroll to read more about the journey of the Senior IPS officer.