1. Hulimavu Lake Breach Hits 1,000 Families, Sinks 300 Cars
More than 1,000 families were affected and over 300 cars submerged after the bund of Hulimavu lake, off Bannerghatta Road, south Bengaluru, breached on Sunday, sending water gushing into at least half-a-dozen localities in its neighbourhood.
Preliminary probe said an overzealous contractor who had undertaken works in the lake without taking precautionary measures was responsible for the breach. The contractor, reportedly linked to a few politicians, had gone ahead with the civic works without a green signal from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, which has been the custodian of Hulimavu lake since 2016.
The magnitude of the man-made breach was such that basements of most apartment complexes in localities near the lake were flooded.
(Source: The Times of India)
2. Rainbow of Pride Descends Upon Town
Amid cheers and celebration, hundreds of people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community flagged off the Namma Pride March on Sunday from Tulsi Park, near Upparpet police station, to Town Hall. They were joined by activists and other citizens who came out to support them.
Members of the Coalition for Sex Workers, Sexual and Sexuality Minorities’ Rights, Karnataka, which organised the event, said the aim was not only to create awareness about the rights of the community but to also to protest the new Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019. The Bill, argued activists, is repressive and undermines the rights of transgender people. “What’s more, it does not include mandatory reservations in jobs, educational institutions, better treatments in hospitals, etc,” said an activist.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
3. I Didn’t Specify Which Government Will Be Saved: Kumaraswamy
Former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, who had earlier announced he would work to save the BJP government to prevent midterm polls in the State, on Sunday said that he had only said “protect the government” and not specified which government.
Speaking to reporters during a poll rally, he said he would work to prevent midterm polls because the people of the State were in trouble. “I said that I would prevent the fall of the government. But I did not say which government.”
The 9 December results of the by-elections for 15 Assembly constituencies will decide which government will be saved, he said.
(Source: The Hindu)
4. Cops Attacked With Knife During Standoff With Murder Accused in Bengaluru
Nithyananda, a sub-inspector at Rajagopal Nagar police station, and Basavanna, a staff member at the Nandini Layout police station in Bengaluru, were part of a police team sent to arrest two persons accused of murdering a man over a cricket match.
However, in the process, the two were injured after they were attacked with knives. The incident took place in Nandini Layout on Saturday. Rohit and Chandan, alias ABCD Chandu, were accused of stabbing and killing G Uma Maheshwar, a resident of Ganesha Block near Nandini Layout, on Wednesday evening after a fight erupted between them over a run-out in a cricket match a few days prior to that.
(Source: The News Minute)
5. BIAL to Run Trials With 2nd Brand of Body Scanners
Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), operator of Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), which has already completed one round of trials of full-body scanners, will conduct a second one using a different brand.
In June, the Bureau for Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) had mandated that all airports install full-body scanners by March 2021, and BIAL had initiated the first trial run in the same month.
A source from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), while refusing to comment on the learnings from the first trial run, said the second round will commence by the end of December or early January.
(Source: The Times of India)