QBengaluru: Several Govt Offices to Shift to North K’taka & More
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1. Karnataka to Shift About a Dozen Offices From Bengaluru to Northern Districts
The coalition government, which has in the past been accused of “discriminating” against north Karnataka, on Thursday decided to shift nearly a dozen of the offices of major departments from Bengaluru to the northern region of the state.
A Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, gave in-principle approval to the proposals made by an official committee headed by the Chief Secretary and decided to shift some of the offices to north Karnataka.
Source: The Hindu
2. Rape Case Against Nithyananda: Trial Court Issues Non-Bailable Warrant for him
The trial court in Karnataka hearing the rape case against controversial godman Nithyananda issued a non-bailable warrant against him on Thursday. This, after Nithyananda failed to appear in court since 6 June, the day charges were framed against him and all the other accused in the case.
The Third Additional District and Session Court in Ramanagara had begun trying Nithyananda eight years after an FIR was registered against him, as the godman was successful in delaying trial by approaching higher courts and changing his stance from ‘being impotent’ to having consensual sex with his disciple.
Finally, the trial started at the insistence of the Supreme Court, which instructed the trial court to frame charges against him and conduct a speedy trial.
Source: The News Minute
3. Chicken Biryani Throws up Bone of Contention; Woman Leaves Hubby, son
A 31-year-old pregnant woman left her husband and eight-year-old son after they ate chicken biryani at their house in Kammagondanahalli in Gangammanagudi police station limits. On Thursday, she called her family from her native to inform she would never come back.
The woman is Anitha Sarkar, a native of Sathna in Madhya Pradesh and her husband Raju, a technician had approached Ganagammanagudi police last Wednesday.
A senior police officer said the complainant Raju alleged that on 28 August, he had brought home some chicken biryani from a nearby hotel for dinner and ate it along with his little son Adarsha. After noticing that, Anitha picked a quarrel with Raju and warned that she did not like the smell of chicken inside her home and she would now never cook in that kitchen again. In the early hours, she left home and her son and husband went in search of her.
Source: The New Indian Express
4. Bengaluru Airport to Adopt Paperless Travel
In a move to facilitate paperless travel, Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL), which operates Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) will be introducing biometric technology to verify passenger details.
The technology will identify passengers by their face as they move across the airport, avoiding stops and the repeated presentation of boarding passes, passports or other physical identity documents, according to a release from BIAL. The implementation is likely to take place in the first quarter of 2019.
BIAL will be putting this technology in place in coordination with a Portuguese company Vision Box. The contract was signed on Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal, between BIAL MD and CEO Hari Marar and Vision-Box CEO Miguel Leitmann.
Source: The Hindu
5. Mentally ill Mistook for Child-Lifter, Thrashed
A mentally disturbed man was tied to a tree and beaten up by residents of Patalamma Layout near Kadugodi in east Bengaluru on Wednesday evening on suspicion that he was a kidnapper.
As the 25-year-old youth from Odisha entered a house in Patalamma Layout around 4:30 pm, residents came out of the house screaming. Passerby and neighbours caught him and tied him to a tree.
Meanwhile, one of the residents told them that he had received a WhatsApp message saying that four child lifters had entered their area and that he suspected him to be one of them.
Source: Deccan Herald
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