Karnataka Bengaluru Live Updates: Covid restrictions at Kerala border to continue, says Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner

Karnataka Bangalore Latest News Live Updates: Rajendra said more than 30,000 new Covid cases are being reported from Kerala daily and the test positivity rate in neighbouring Kasaragod district is around 12 per cent.

Karnataka Bangalore News Live Updates: Restrictions on the movement of people enforced at the border with Kerala will continue as there has been no change in the Covid-19 situation in Kerala, Dakshina Kannada district Deputy Commissioner K V Rajendra said.

Giving a clarification on reports claiming that the Centre has lifted the requirement of RT-PCR certificates to cross the border, he said the Karnataka government’s order mandating the RT-PCR test negative certificates for those coming to DK from Kerala is still in force.

The order is meant to contain the spread of Covid-19 and the district administration will continue to implement the same, he said. Rajendra said more than 30,000 new Covid cases are being reported from Kerala daily and the test positivity rate in neighbouring Kasaragod district is around 12 per cent.

“In Dakshina Kannada, the positivity rate has been brought down to around 2 with a lot of effort and lifting of border restrictions will be like letting in new cases from Kerala. Though it is difficult to implement, the district has no other option than making the RT-PCR certificate mandatory”, he said. The test positivity rate in Dakshina Kannada district came down to 1.81 per cent on Sunday. (PTI)

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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that plans are on to build a high-speed rail link between Bengaluru city and Kempegowda International Airport (KIA).

“We have plans to connect Bengaluru airport with the city centre with a high-speed train. KIA will become a unique airport, connected by three railway lines with the Metro, and the suburban and the high-speed train,” he said on Sunday after inaugurating the new 7.5 km-long Western Extension Line under Phase-2 of Namma Metro from Mysore Road Metro Station to Kengeri Metro Stations. Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri was also present on the occasion.

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Seven persons including a couple travelling in a SUV died after their car rammed into a road pedestrian way and a compound in the early hours of Tuesday. 

While the police are yet to confirm the identity of the deceased, all are aged between 21-28 years and were travelling in an Audi car. The incident took place near Mangala Kalayana Manatapa near Koramangala around 1.30 am. 

Joint commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ravikanthe Gowda said that four male and three female persons have died. Six of them died on the spot and one died one the way to the hospital. Prima facie, it looks like that the car was being drivern fast and in a negligent matter. “We are yet to know whether they were drunk”, he added. 

Adugodi traffic police have registered a case of rash and negligent driving and the bodies have been shifted to St John’s hospital for post-mortem.

Tired of trying to draw the attention of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to the poor condition of roads in their locality, residents of Medharahalli in north Bengaluru’s Shettihalli ward have staged a protest by planting paddy in the slush that was once a main road in the area.

The Medarahalli main road has been in a dilapidated condition after various civic agencies dug it up one after the other without any coordination. “In 2018, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) dug up the road to lay Cauvery water supply lines and drainage lines but the BBMP failed to carry out asphalting work afterwards. We planted paddy because there was no way left to draw their attention,” said former panchayat member K Somashekar.

The lack of coordination between the agencies has left residents in many parts of Bengaluru fuming, especially after the recent heavy rains in the city. Besides Medharahalli, poor roads have also been a concern in east Bengaluru localities like Varthur and the Old Airport Road area.

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A key accused in the Mysuru gangrape case was linked to at least four sandalwood theft and smuggling cases in the region since 2019, with the latest of those filed in January this year, it has emerged.

Police are now looking at the possibility of the sandalwood theft gang’s involvement in other attacks and robberies in Mysuru, which may have not been reported on account of fear among the victims.

Bhupathi, alias Keeri, 24, a resident of Talavadi town in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district, a key accused held in the August 24 gangrape case, was arrested, along with three others, on January 8 after Mysuru police seized 40 kg sandalwood pieces from a car with Tamil Nadu registration. A senior officer said the seized sandalwood was worth Rs 5.5 lakh. “He was on the (police) radar, but not for crimes against women. He was out on bail,” the officer added.

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Nearly three months after the Karnataka government announced compensation of Rs 5,000 each to teachers and other staff members in unaided schools across the state as part of its Covid-19 relief package, teachers and private school managements said they are yet to receive the amount.

“While we were delighted that the unaided sector was also recognised among other groups for the Covid-19 relief package announced by the government, the process to transfer Rs 5,000 each to unaided school staff is yet to be completed,” D Shashikumar, general secretary of the Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Schools in Karnataka (KAMS) told The Indian Express.

Shashikumar said nearly 1.22 lakh staff members in the sector were identified to be eligible for the compensation in July but “the usual hiccups” have delayed the process. “We request the government to release the relief fund to the bank accounts of teaching and non-teaching staff at least on the occasion of Teachers’ Day (September 5). This would acknowledge their uncompromising services amid the Covid-19 crisis,” he said.

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A 27-year-old has been arrested in Bengaluru after he slit his girlfriend’s throat after she turned down his marriage proposal on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Anitha, a native of Andhra Pradesh working in Bengaluru for the last three years and the accused is Venkatesh, who also worked with her for three years before shifting to another firm six months ago. Both of them had worked as checking staff in a FMCG. The incident took place near Doddabele Road in Kengeri. 

According to the police sources, Venkatesh and Anitha were known to each other and Anitha’s father had come to know about the matter. He had told his daughter that he had found another alliance and Anitha on Saturday had told Venkatesh that she would marry another person and turned down his proposal. 

Dejected by her refusal to marry him, Venkatesh, who bought a knife from a supermarket on Monday morning about 7 am, stopped her while she was heading to work. He confronted her, asking her to marry him and when she refused, he allegedly slit her throat. Venkatesh and others shifted her to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead. 

Kengeri police have registered a murder case and arrested Venkatesh. The police sources said that Anitha was already married to her relative when she was a minor but had separated later.

Restrictions on the movement of people enforced at the border with Kerala will continue as there has been no change in the Covid-19 situation in Kerala, Dakshina Kannada district Deputy Commissioner K V Rajendra said. Giving a clarification on reports claiming that the Centre has lifted the requirement of RT-PCR certificates to cross the border, he said the Karnataka government’s order mandating the RT-PCR test negative certificates for those coming to DK from Kerala is still in force.

The order is meant to contain the spread of Covid-19 and the district administration will continue to implement the same, he said. Rajendra said more than 30,000 new Covid cases are being reported from Kerala daily and the test positivity rate in neighbouring Kasaragod district is around 12 per cent.

In Dakshina Kannada, the positivity rate has been brought down to around 2 with a lot of effort and lifting of border restrictions will be like letting in new cases from Kerala. Though it is difficult to implement, the district has no other option than making the RT-PCR certificate mandatory, he said.

The test positivity rate in Dakshina Kannada district came down to 1.81 per cent on Sunday. (PTI)

Living under the disguise of businessmen, three inter-state thieves who had come down to Bengaluru on flights to steal houses have been arrested by the city police on Monday. The cops have managed to recover gold ornaments worth Rs 1.80 crore in as many as 12 cases reported in city. The arrested are Bilal, 33, a native of West Bengal, Malwani Shahajad, a native of Maharashtra 43 and Mohammed Zalik, 36, a native of Bihar. 

According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) South Harish Pandey, the accused were coming to Bengaluru on flights and looking for houses which were locked. Once they found houses, they would steal the valuables and sell them in either in jewellery shops in Hyderabad or Mumbai to share the money. In some cases, it was also found that they were pledging these gold ornaments in few co-operative banks and finance firms. 

It was discovered that the accused had shown themselves to be businessmen who often visited Bengaluru. They would stay in Bengaluru for a day or two before leaving with the valuables. 
In July, the accused stole valuables from a house in Basavanagudi which belonged to a doctor. Her father who was in abroad had left the house and his daughter visited often. On July 11, she discovered that gold ornaments worth Rs 6 lakh, 19 watches worth Rs 2 lakh, 150 US dollars, 100 UK pounds and other valuables totalling to Rs 15 lakh had gone missing. 

The cops who had registered the case found out vital clues such as CCTV footages and fingerprints left behind. The technical evidence provided leads to the accused and they were eventually nabbed. While the cops nabbed them in this specific theft case, their fingerprints matched with 12 other cases and the accused confessed to their crimes. The police said that the accused had been visiting Bengaluru for the past three years and would reside for a day or two before stealing valuables. This was the first time that they were caught.

In a drug peddling case, Bengaluru police on Monday arrested three persons, including a female model and a realtor. 

The raids on the houses in Rajajinagar, Benson Town and Banashankari were conducted on Monday morning based on the information they had received from the arrest of a Nigerian drug peddler. 

According to the police sources, a Nigerian national was caught with ecstasy pills worth Rs 15.5 lakh in HBR Layout on August 12. Upon interrogation, he revealed the names of those he had supplied the narcotic substances to. Further, the mobile phone chats disclosed his interactions with many people who were his customers. 

The raids were conducted on the houses of a female model, realtor and a Disc Jockey (DJ). The police sources said that going by the nature of the case, it looks like the three of them were not just consumers but also supplied or helped others to get the drugs.

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A key accused in the Mysuru gangrape case was linked to at least four sandalwood theft and smuggling cases in the region since 2019, with the latest of those filed in January this year, it has emerged. Police are now looking at the possibility of the sandalwood theft gang’s involvement in other attacks and robberies in Mysuru, which may have not been reported on account of fear among the victims.

READ | Mysuru rape accused arrested earlier in sandalwood theft cases, got bail in Feb

The Karnataka government has decided to plant thousands of trees at the Bingipura landfill in Anekal taluk. The Bingipura lake, which had been contaminated due to unscientific disposal of waste for years, was rejuvenated last month. “The lake was contaminated due to the leachate entering the lake and soil from the dumping ground. There were issues of fish kill also. The lake was restored using a natural filtration process. Sustainable techniques including natural sewage treatment were adopted to decontaminate the lake,” Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner J Manjunath told The Indian Express.

READ | Karnataka govt to plant trees at Bingipura landfill site as part of lake restoration

Here are a few contacts that might come in handy for you in emergency situations:

COVID-19 related queries / emergencies / clarifications: 104 (toll free); +91-80-4684-8600/6669-2000 | Home Quarantine-related queries: Telegram messenger/WhatsApp – +91 97777 77684, Voice call – 080 45451111 | BBMP control room: 080-22221188 | In case of power disruptions, contact BESCOM: 1912. If the water supply is hit in your area, contact BWSSB: 1916

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