QBengaluru: City Police’s Twitter Hacked; NLSIU Registrar Resigns

Latest news updates from Bengaluru.

It’s important to remember that only these high-profile accounts, and not Twitter as a platform, were hacked.

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1. Bengaluru Police's Twitter Accounts Hacked, Culprits Guessed Simple Passwords

While Bengaluru police repeatedly emphasise the need to safeguard online accounts with strong and secure passwords, their own social media accounts are being hacked with impunity. Miscreants seem to be second-guessing the commonplace passwords used by cops.

In the last three days, five Twitter accounts of Bengaluru traffic police have been hacked into and their user names changed.

The first account to be hacked was of Jayanagar traffic police. Sources said a man claiming to be from the IT wing of traffic police called up multiple traffic police stations and asked account details and passwords to refresh them. While most station staff didn’t share their password, one police official is suspected to have shared it.

(Source: The Times of India)

2. Ex-CM HD Kumaraswamy Rules out Involvement in Phone Tapping of Seer

HD Kumaraswamy. (File Photo: IANS)

Amid reports that the phone of Nirmalananda Swamiji, an influential seer of the dominant Vokkaliga community was also tapped during the coalition government led by him, former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday ruled out any involvement in it.

He also said the allegation has caused him “unbearable pain.” The JD(S) leader said unnecessarily his name was being linked to the case, and the seer was a moral support and guide for him.

“The reports about the tapping of Nirmalananda Swamiji’s phone during my administration and statements by political leaders regarding it has caused unbearable pain to my heart. Above all this might have upset Swamiji has increased my pain,” Kumaraswamy said in a tweet.

(Source: The New Indian Express)

3. Bypolls: Congress Wants Immediate Enforcement of Model Code of Conduct

Governing parties in Karnataka have changed like clockwork every election, and so, the trend continues. (GIF: Rahul Gupta)

The Opposition Congress has urged the Election Commission of India to enforce the model code of conduct from the date of announcement of the bypolls to 15 Legislative Assembly constituencies, instead of waiting till November 11.

“The Election Commission, generally, enforces the model code of conduct soon after the announcement of polls in States. But acting at the behest of the ruling BJP at the Centre, the EC has notified enforcement of the code of conduct from November 11, though it announced the calendar of events for the bypolls on September 27,” said KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao

(Source: The Hindu)

4. Days After new V-C Takes Charge, Nandimath Resigns as Registrar of NLS Bengaluru

NLSIU, Bengaluru. (Photo: NLSIU website)

OV Nandimath, who was at the heart of the recent controversy over the appointment of Vice-Chancellor of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru, resigned from the post of Registrar on Saturday. He will, however, continue as a professor at the University.

This comes just within days after Sudhir Krishnaswamy took charge as the Vice-Chancellor and after days of discontent among students over the alleged delay in his appointment. The students had even resorted to protests and even boycotted exams over the matter.

While the former Vice-Chancellor of the University, R Venkata Rao, completed his 10-year term on July 31, his successor (Krishnaswamy) was named through a mandated process on August 2. Krishnaswamy, however, took charge as the V-C only on September 25.

(Source: The News Minute)

5. Sudanese Student Stabbed to Death

Representational image of a crime scene. (Photo: iStock)

A gang of miscreants stabbed a 28-year-old Sudanese student near Shampura railway gate, KG Halli, early on Friday. He succumbed to injuries a day later.

Police said Monytoc alias Kris, a resident of RK Hegde Nagar and pharmacy student of an east Bengaluru private college, was found with stab injuries in his abdomen and right hand at 1am. Passersby admitted him to Bowring hospital, where he died on Saturday morning.

Police registered a case of attempt to murder based on a complaint filed by Monytoc’s friend Eric Khamis Aquitino, also a Sudanese. Eric told police a person identifying himself as Rizwan called him around 1am and informed him about the incident. “Rizwan said some unknown persons stabbed Monytoc and he was admitted to Bowring. Monytoc was not in a position to speak when I met him in the hospital,” Eric told police.

(Source: The Times of India)