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• Drizzle, wind leave Bangalore cold

  Bangaloreans on Thursday experienced the chilly weather in all its glory. The not-so-light drizzle, accompanied by wind, dropped the mercury a few notches. Many were taken by surprise and were seen running around for shelter to avoid the rain showers. This, according to Indian Meteorological department (IMD) officials, would continue for the next c...

• Rejection of RTI applications on the rise

  Public information officers are rejecting applications filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, forcing people to seek help from RTI activists. City-based RTI activists pointed out that the rejection of applications has been on a rise since the past month. According to Vikram Simha, an activist, the officers were not accepting the applicatio...

• Jumbo Awards for guardians of the wild

  It was the first time that the Jumbo Wildlife Awards were given, and the Taj West End was packed with celebrities. The star-studded audience included New Zealand cricketers Ross Taylor and Scott Styris, team India's Javagal Srinath, VVS Laxman, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan and Anil Kumble, actors Upendra and Srinath, sports stars Reeth Abraham and A...

• Yeshwantpur railway station will get a major facelift soon

  A makeover awaits Yeshwantpur railway station with the South Western Railways (SWR) planning to upgrade its facilities within a year with an investment of Rs4 crore.

• Mysterious dog deaths shock residents in Bangalore

  Residents of HSR Layout had the shock of their lives on Sunday morning when they spotted several dead dogs piled up near the garbage pits, frothing and bleeding from their mouths.

• Parking woes hit businesses in Bangalore

  City's busy Avenue Road is facing business hiccups over the last two years as the area has been turned into a 'no parking' zone. While shopkeepers say business is going down, officials of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) say they are planning to set up an elevated parking space for cars and two wheelers in the premises. Although the id...

• Bangalore: Now, sloth bears seek protection from Maoists

  Politics will not let even animals alone. Twenty-two sloth bears traveled all the way from West Bengal, and arrived at the Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Center on Thursday, after their lives were threatened by the Maoists.

• Bangalore: No bursting of crackers after 10 pm

  This Deepavali, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has issued strict guidelines to limit air and noise pollution.

• Bangalore: Plastic banned in religious places

  As its second step to curtail the generation of solid waste, the state government has announced to pull the plug on the usage of plastic around 100 metres of religious institutions. Minister of ports, inland water, environment and muzrai Krishna J Palemar announced on Friday that the long-pending proposal had been approved. Only biodegradable plast...

• Bangalore: Techies to the rescue of Bannerghatta's big cats

  Concerned by the recent death of tigers at Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), a few techies have proposed the idea of having huge microwave ovens in the park to disinfect large quantities of beef fed to the carnivores.The recommendation has been made on the lines of the practices in a Canada zoo, where a microwave oven is used to disinfect at leas...

• Bangalore: Anxiety over absence of automatic weather station at the International Airport

  An automatic weather station at the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) is the dire need of the hour, given the disruption of flight schedules by fog conditions in the city. The setting up of the system, however, has been eluding the airport even after three years of its launch. Foggy conditions on the BIA runway on September 30 morning delayed t...