1. ‘First Sons’ of BJP and Cong to Fight Each Other in Karnataka?
It is now widely believed that the son of present Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, Dr Yathindra, and the son of former CM BS Yeddyurappa, BY Vijayendra, will be contesting from the Varuna constituency in the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections. Notably, Siddaramaiah had won the assembly elections from the same constituency in 2008 and 2013.
With Siddaramaiah announcing that he would be contesting from the Chamundeshwari constituency in Mysuru district, it is probably that his son will contest from Varuna.
Source: The News Minute
2. Thief Falls to Death From 4th Floor While Robbing Gadgets
A thief trying to rob mobile phones and laptops from a women's paying guest accommodation in Kaikondanahalli on Sarjapur Road died after falling from the building's fourth floor.
The police are yet to identify the thief. The body is kept at the mortuary at the St John's Hospital and a post-mortem is yet to be performed. The police said the incident happened around 3:30 am at the Lakshminarayana women's paying guest accommodation on Sarjapur Road.
The thief, whom the paying guests say could be in his late twenties, had snuck into their four-storied building possibly from the adjacent terrace.
Source: Deccan Herald
3. Police Vehicles Fitted With Toilet
Standing guard in the open, often in tense situations or those involving large crowds, the police have have little access to basic amenities. This is particularly bad for the over 6,330 women police officials who have no access to clean women-friendly toilets in the areas where they are deployed.
As a small step towards changing this, the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) vehicles have tested their prototype for a vehicle with a small toilet for use by women personnel on the field. The toilet, fabricated in Coimbatore, was installed at a cost of ₹1.5 lakh, and KSRP said they were planning to extend this to other vehicles.
Source: The Hindu
4. Sexism Exists in Multiple Forms in Indian Bureaucracy: Roopa IPS
Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Roopa D Moudgil, who exposed special favours extended to ousted AIADMK leader VK Sasikala in a Bengaluru jail during her tenure as the DIG Prisons in Karnataka, has said sexual discrimination exists in different forms in the Indian bureaucracy, though it is often kept carefully under wraps.
In an interview with IANS, the current Inspector General of Police (Home Guards and Civil Defence), Bengaluru, also dwelt on the importance of prison reforms and sensitisation of the officials and talked about her fight to extricate the Indian public servants from the tentacles of VIP culture.
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5. More Showers Likely Over the Next two Days
A sudden gust, thunderstorms and heavy rain lashed many parts of the city on Monday as Bengaluru continues to be under the spell of pre-monsoon showers.
While the Indian Meteorological Department recorded 5.8mm of rainfall at its centre on Palace Road, the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) said the highest rainfall that the city received was 32.5mm in east Bengaluru.
Roads were water-logged while power supply was disrupted. According to Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company, 11 trees or their branches had fallen on electric wires, while one pole was reported broken. The electricity utility received over 1,000 calls. Much of the damage was in south Bengaluru.
Source: The Hindu
6. After ‘Cardiac Arrest’, Rs 270cr Gsat-6A Cruising on Silently
The Gsat-6A remained incommunicado for the third day after its launch even as it moved over Africa and then towards the southern tip of India, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and over the Pacific Ocean on Monday.
Data from the US-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) showed all three stages of placing it in orbit had gone off without a hitch.
“It was like a cardiac arrest,” one ISRO insider said about the sudden blackout of the Rs 270-crore satellite.
Source: The Times of India
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