Bangalore Spends Rs. 2 Lakh to Trap 20 Rats

As per a report:
At almost Rs 10,000 per rat, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palik (BBMP) has probably paid the steepest price to its 'Piper' (companies chosen through e-procurement) to get rid of pesky rodents. Read full story  here at......Bangalore Spends Rs. 2 Lakh to Trap 20 Rats

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Rajinikanth website runs without internet! Not a joke

Bangalore: This is not to become one among the Rajinikanth jokes, but it's real. A website has been launched to honor, larger than-life, Indian film superstar that runs without an internet connection. Yes. You read it right.

www.allaboutrajni.com, is developed by Webchutney's creative director Gurbaksh Singh. As soon as visitors log onto this particular website, they get to read message that says, "He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website. It runs on Rajini Power." To proceed further into this specially designed website, the consumers must disconnect the internet connection as stated on the website. Read More................Rajinikanth website runs without internet! Not a joke

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Politicians in India demand iPad3 which Apple is yet to launch

BANGALORE: Karnataka's legislators are literally getting ahead of technology. MLAs here have demandedthat each of them be given an iPad3 - which, incidentally, Apple is yet to launch.

The MLAs' demand comes in the wake of their counterparts in the legislative council receiving an iPad2 last month. More than Rs 35.17 lakh was spent to buy the 64GB gadgets, each worth Rs 46,900, for 75 MLCs. Buying iPads for the 225 MLAs will cost more than Rs 1.05 crore. Read More................Netas in game of one-upmanship, step into future

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Bizarre temple tradition

Bangalore, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka, already battling corruption scandals and dissidence, is now caught in a delicate balancing act over a bizarre practice at a famous temple.

The practice, said to be 400 years old, involves people rolling over plantain leaves containing leftovers of meals consumed by Brahmins in the belief that it cures them of skin ailments. Read More................Now a bizarre temple tradition trips Karnataka government (Karnataka Newsletter)

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Order, order! Snake, suicide bid create stir at Bangalore HC

BANGALORE: It was an eventful day at the high court on Tuesday. A snake sneaked in, a woman attempted suicide and a mini ruckus occurred during the hearing of a habeas corpus petition filed by a grandmother seeking custody of her granddaughter who had eloped. Read More................Order, order! Snake, suicide bid create stir at Bangalore HC

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When Parrot Was Killed for Wrongly Predicting Cricket Match

Bangalore: The first casualty of the cricket frenzy has been pronounced. It's not a human being, but a sad little parrot that had to forego its life at the hands of its master. The only mistake the “psychic parrot” did was predicting that Pakistan will win the World Cup 2011. Not only did it predict the win once but did the same grave mistake three times in a row. Read More................The first casualty of the Ind VS Pak cricket fever

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Now a Mosquito Scam

Bangalore: The health ministry's refusal to allow the use of a highly potent mosquito control agent developed by one of its own institutes and granting permission to an imported product, has kicked up a controversy. At stake is not only a Rs.1,000 crore (approx $220 million) market, but also the eradication of diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya. Read More................A mosquito scam breeding in India?

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Dead farmer in ads of Political Party Campaign

Bangalore: A coloured photograph of a man smiling into the camera heralded the BJP's commitment to farmers in Karnataka. The ad was part of the party's campaign for the panchayat elections scheduled for later this month.

A grossly insensitive mistake, as it turns out. The family of Nagaraju from a village about 80 km from Bangalore the Mandya district says he killed himself in 2009 after he was unable to pay off massive debts. He left behind a wife and two young children who are in school. Read more at: BJP's terrible mistake: Dead farmer in ads

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Smiling in class leaves boy with a broken tooth

Bangalore: A class IV student of Balwin Boys High School in Bangalore had his front tooth partially broken when the class teacher hurled a wooden duster at him for smiling in the class.

Mohammed Ayman was later taken to a dentist who advised a root canal treatment after an X-ray. Read more...................Smiling in class leaves Bangalore boy with a broken tooth

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Woman gets power connection after 1,813 days

BANGALORE: The decks have finally been cleared for Lachhi Poojarthy, a poor illiterate widow from Kundapur taluk, to get compensation for being made to wait 1,813 days to get power connection for her hut by the Mangalore Electricity Supplying Company (Mescom). Read More................Woman gets power connection after 1,813 days

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Drunken woman pulls autodriver's hair, assaults cops

BANGALORE: Close on the heels of two Iranian girls beating up a traffic policeman in an inebriated state, a drunken woman created a scene at Vasanthnagar in the heart of the city. Read More................Drunken woman pulls autodriver's hair, assaults cops

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Holy man resigns over Sex scandal

A Hindu holy man with thousands of followers across India resigned as head of a religious organization on Tuesday after police began investigating his role in a sex scandal, officials said.

Video footage allegedly showing Nithyananda Swami, head of Dhyanapeetam, or "knowledge center," frolicking with two women angered hundreds of devotees who tried to ransack his center outside the southern city of Bangalore this month. Read More................Holy man resigns over sex scandal

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Spurned, neta stuffs bribe into woman’s blouse

BANGALORE: Netas are known to push the envelope to lure voters, but a candidate of a prominent political party on Friday went a little too far with a woman in Jaraganahalli ward of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike going to polls on Sunday, promptly incurring her wrath. Read More................Spurned, neta stuffs bribe into woman’s blouse

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Godman incarnation supplicated by Cannabis

Bangalore: In a bizarre ritual, large number of devotees visit a temple in Bangalore's Chitradurga district and smoke cannabis during an annual festival as an expression of their devotion to the deity here.

Buzz up!The temple's main deity Nayakana Hatti Tipperudraswami is said to be the incarnation of Lord Shiva.

Visiting this temple during the annual festival shows how men and women consume cannabis during this festival, held in March, in the name of the strange belief.

Also related to this 800-year-old unusual ritual is a belief of some people that smoking cannabis enables the smoker to develop a better focus in the worship of the deity here. Read More................Godman incarnation near Bangalore supplicated by cannabis

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Nanny sedates baby, 'rents' him out to beggars

BANGALORE: The worst nightmare of working parents entrusting the care of their children to nannies became a reality for a city couple recently. As soon as they would kiss their little one goodbye, the nanny would feed him and get him ready - for a day of begging on the streets of Bangalore. Instead of milk, the baby was fed sedatives; instead of the clothes carefully put out by his parents, she would dress him up in rags. Read More................Nanny sedates baby, 'rents' him out to beggars

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Man’s 6th marriage to woman who had 11 husbands foiled by 5th wife

Bangalore: A businessman’s quest to get married for the sixth time, to a woman who has deserted 11 husbands, was foiled by his fifth wife. The woman Mohammed Sayeed, 40,wanted to marry is Kausar Salma who had been arrested by the Mumbai police after one of her husbands complained of cheating, breach of trust and criminal intimidation. Read More................Man’s 6th marriage to woman who had 11 husbands foiled by 5th wife

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Cop caught for chain snatching

BANGALORE: A police constable was caught while trying to snatch a chain from a woman, police said on Friday. Read More................Police constable caught for chain snatching

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A glass of wine with Samosa?

India's new cutting edge fashion: Women drinking wine.

BANGALORE — Ever thought that a chicken tikka could be paired with a rose, or a palak paneer (cottage cheese in spinach) with a sauvignon blanc?

Aparna Bhagwat, 26, an architect who works at a Bangalore-based design firm, absolutely thinks so. So do her girlfriends.

In a country where drinking used to be taboo for women, and socializing meant sitting around watching the men get smashed, record numbers of urban women are taking to wine drinking, making it socially acceptable and even fashionable.Read More................A glass of wine with your samosa?

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Shut up and vote

Shut up and vote - is the message that a Bangalore-based rock band will give to the urban youth in five cities starting Friday. The band, in a series of rock shows, will urge the young to stop cribbing and start voting. Read More................Rock band to urge the youth to 'shut up and vote'

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Want a rented house, Furnish character certificate first

BANGALORE: It’s one thing to check out potential tenants for possible links with unwanted elements, but quite another to cast aspersions on unmarried 20-somethings.

House owners in the city are now asking single working women to furnish character certificates on company letterheads, before renting out their houses. Read more..............Landlords play moral police

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