Despite Karnataka’s ban on advertisement on vehicles, there are hordes of vehicles that run on the streets of the city sporting commercials of all kinds. Bibek Baidya On the streets of Bengaluru, in traffic jams and at parking lots, hordes of buses and cars bearing advertisements of all sorts are not hard to spot. These […]
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More than 20 cases of work from home fraud have been registered with the city cybercrime police station in Bangalore in the past one month. Abhinav Kumar As many people in Bengaluru turn to freelancing, the I-T city sees a surge in the number of ‘work from home’ job fraud cases. City cybercrime police department […]
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Police yet to crack the case and track the suspects By Shivani Verma Uma Maheshwar (20) was stabbed four times by a group of people in Nandini Layout, while he was returning from his college around 7 PM on Wednesday. The boy was taken to Kanva Diagnostic Hospital immediately, but due to his critical condition, […]
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The case involved eight accused, six minors among them. Of the adults, one has been arrested and the other is absconding By Savyata Mishra Bengaluru: Police have arrested a man in relation to a harassment case where eight boys pushed a 14-year-old repeatedly into a lake. The incident occurred on November 10, after a minor […]
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Children working in extreme conditions in brick kiln in Kushtagi, while their health and well-being is threatened Riddhiman Roy “We use the field when we have to use the bathroom, there used to be a groundwater pump here, but that stopped working, and for food, we get our meals packed from home”, said Vikas, an […]
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Superstitions make people do things that they haven’t even dreamt of—thanks to black magic and witchcraft. Manasvi Gupta Witchcraft/ sorcery and human sacrifice crimes, registered under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 302, 303 and 307, have increased four-folds (till September) since last year, according to the Crime Statistics. Lakshya, a resident of Marathalli, whose […]
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Two of the drug peddlers are from South Sudan; arrested with 1.15 kg canabbis. Yumna Ahmed K.G Halli police station arrested three drug peddlers on Tuesday morning, among them two were from South Sudan. People arrested in drug peddling case have been sent to Central Jail, Bangalore for illegally peddling drugs. The investigation is still […]
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Cigarette and alcohol shops continue to run within 100 yards of educational institutions. By Bibek Baidya Alcohol and Cigarette sale continue within 100 yards of educational institutions in Bangalore even after the 2003 High Court ban order. According to the Section 6 of Cigarette and other tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of […]
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City Cybercrime police station has registered over a dozen fraud cases in Bengaluru in past one month. Abhinav Kumar The number of AnyDesk App users getting exposed to banking frauds is on the rise in Bangalore. This year, the Cyber Crime cell has recorded 15 fraud cases in September. R.Ratnam, member of technical staff in […]
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The players of the Karnataka Premiere League confessed of match-fixing. They said, they were honey trapped. By Labani Mahanandy The Karnataka Premiere League players were forced for match-fixing as they were “honey-trapped”, says Bhaskar Rao, Commissioner of Police. One day after the Bangalore Police issued notice to both Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) and Karnataka […]
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