Bengaluru Potholes

A 75 year-old differently abled man died in an accident after his two-wheeler ran over a pothole and he lost balance in Bengaluru on Monday night.

To draw the attention of the Karnataka government and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) towards the poor condition of the roads, residents of Anjanapura in Bengaluru planted paddy saplings in the water-filled potholes on Saturday.

Noted Bengaluru-based artist Baadal Nanjundaswamy recently shared video clip of him walking on a potholed road in the city resembling craters on the moon while dressed as an astronaut. The video has now been recreated in Mexico.

Just 24 hours after a street artist dressed up as an astronaut and performed "moonwalk" in a viral video, drawing attention to 'crater-sized' potholes in Bengaluru, civic authorities under fire rushed to do damage control.

Rocky terrain, a man in a space suit and the "moonwalk" - no, this is not the description of a mission to the Earth's nearest celestial neighbour but of a street in Bengauluru where an artist recreated a scene to highlight the lunar crater-sized potholes in the city.

Monday was the Court-mandated deadline for Bengaluru's city corporation, the BBMP, to repair the thousands of potholes that make travel in the traffic-choked city even slower and more dangerous.

In a novel initiative, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara has asked citizens to report about potholes in Bengaluru via Whatsapp message, call or e-complaint on the civic body's website.

Nearly 3.5 crore people in Karnataka voted on Saturday at the end of a rancorous campaign that saw the PM Narendra Modi and Congress' Rahul Gandhi throw themselves into the campaign and hurl barbs at each other for weeks. But as people in Karnataka capital Bengaluru stepped out to vote, many suggested civic issues would take priority when they vote...

In the middle of public alarm over a dozen deaths linked to potholes in Bengaluru and the sanitation crisis, a grand plan to celebrate 60 years of the Karnataka state assembly or Vidhana Souda by gifting gold biscuits to 300 Karnataka lawmakers has appalled many. A budget of nearly Rs 27 crore has been sent for approval to the state's Congress gove...

Days after Karnataka Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah asked for over 15,000 potholes on Bengaluru's scarred roads to be fixed within 15 days, a unique and colourful protest. One involving mermaids, the mythical creatures thought to be half-woman, half-fish.

After four persons were killed recently on Bengaluru's damaged roads, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said the deaths were "not because of potholes".

A day after Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah sounded an emergency and asked for over 15,000 potholes on Bengaluru's scarred roads to be fixed within 15 days, another woman died on Tuesday when she was flung from a scooter and crushed by a lorry near Devanahalli in the Karnataka capital. Four people have died since last week in Bengaluru in accidents ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has set a 10-day deadline for Bengaluru's municipal corporation to fix all the potholes in the capital, after a 47-year-old woman died on Sunday, the third death in a week due to the city's damaged roads. Officials say Bengaluru has more than 15,000 potholes.

A couple was run over by a bus when they fell off the scooty they were travelling after it hit a big pothole in Bengaluru. Their granddaughter who was also on the scooty survived with bruises, police said

A princess was seen kissing a frog on the busy and battered Mysuru Road on the crowded outskirts of Bengaluru. But even the novel art-installation did not make it a road fit for royalty. It remained a royal pain.

A 75 year-old differently abled man died in an accident after his two-wheeler ran over a pothole and he lost balance in Bengaluru on Monday night.

To draw the attention of the Karnataka government and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) towards the poor condition of the roads, residents of Anjanapura in Bengaluru planted paddy saplings in the water-filled potholes on Saturday.

Noted Bengaluru-based artist Baadal Nanjundaswamy recently shared video clip of him walking on a potholed road in the city resembling craters on the moon while dressed as an astronaut. The video has now been recreated in Mexico.

Just 24 hours after a street artist dressed up as an astronaut and performed "moonwalk" in a viral video, drawing attention to 'crater-sized' potholes in Bengaluru, civic authorities under fire rushed to do damage control.

Rocky terrain, a man in a space suit and the "moonwalk" - no, this is not the description of a mission to the Earth's nearest celestial neighbour but of a street in Bengauluru where an artist recreated a scene to highlight the lunar crater-sized potholes in the city.

Monday was the Court-mandated deadline for Bengaluru's city corporation, the BBMP, to repair the thousands of potholes that make travel in the traffic-choked city even slower and more dangerous.

In a novel initiative, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara has asked citizens to report about potholes in Bengaluru via Whatsapp message, call or e-complaint on the civic body's website.

Nearly 3.5 crore people in Karnataka voted on Saturday at the end of a rancorous campaign that saw the PM Narendra Modi and Congress' Rahul Gandhi throw themselves into the campaign and hurl barbs at each other for weeks. But as people in Karnataka capital Bengaluru stepped out to vote, many suggested civic issues would take priority when they vote...

In the middle of public alarm over a dozen deaths linked to potholes in Bengaluru and the sanitation crisis, a grand plan to celebrate 60 years of the Karnataka state assembly or Vidhana Souda by gifting gold biscuits to 300 Karnataka lawmakers has appalled many. A budget of nearly Rs 27 crore has been sent for approval to the state's Congress gove...

Days after Karnataka Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah asked for over 15,000 potholes on Bengaluru's scarred roads to be fixed within 15 days, a unique and colourful protest. One involving mermaids, the mythical creatures thought to be half-woman, half-fish.

After four persons were killed recently on Bengaluru's damaged roads, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said the deaths were "not because of potholes".

A day after Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah sounded an emergency and asked for over 15,000 potholes on Bengaluru's scarred roads to be fixed within 15 days, another woman died on Tuesday when she was flung from a scooter and crushed by a lorry near Devanahalli in the Karnataka capital. Four people have died since last week in Bengaluru in accidents ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has set a 10-day deadline for Bengaluru's municipal corporation to fix all the potholes in the capital, after a 47-year-old woman died on Sunday, the third death in a week due to the city's damaged roads. Officials say Bengaluru has more than 15,000 potholes.

A couple was run over by a bus when they fell off the scooty they were travelling after it hit a big pothole in Bengaluru. Their granddaughter who was also on the scooty survived with bruises, police said

A princess was seen kissing a frog on the busy and battered Mysuru Road on the crowded outskirts of Bengaluru. But even the novel art-installation did not make it a road fit for royalty. It remained a royal pain.