Bengaluru Live - April 9, 2019

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Karnataka to treat heat wave as natural calamity

The state government has decided to bring ‘heat wave’ incidentsunder the natural calamity category, a move that will help north Karnataka as the region reels under extreme heat during summer.

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3 Bengaluru institutes ace NIRF rankings

Three institutes from Bengaluru have secured top places in theNational Institutional Rankings Framework (NIRF) list 2019 released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development on Monday.

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King Kohli's crumbling RCB empire

The emotions of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s supporters have assumed various hues even as their results have remained the same after half a dozen matches in the ongoing Indian Premier League.

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Election mural on freshly painted wall draws criticism

A citizen group’s painstaking efforts to paintthewall of the Mehkri Circle underpass came tonought in a matter of days as the Election Commission of India picked the wall to paint an eye-catching mural on voter awareness.

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Glitches bring down BBMP’s 'upgraded' property tax site

Despite promising convenience, the BBMP’s upgraded website to pay property tax has technical glitches.

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CCB busts gang of eight in RT Nagar; firearms seized

Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested an eight-member armed gang, who were duping people of lakhs of rupees indulging in illegal sale of firearms, robbery, house burglary and ‘rice pulling’ frauds.

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‘Reservation not a favour we’ll do for women’

Actor Prakash Raj and Congress leader Rizwan Arshad, who are contesting from the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat, briefly locked horns on Monday on the issue of women’s reservation.

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Sangliana quits Cong

Former top cop H T Sangliana on Monday resigned from the Congress in protest against the party’s “neglect” of the Christian community.

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Ward committee put off owing to poll code: Activists

The Environment Support Group monitoring the ward committees complained that many wards have called off meetings citing the election model code of conduct.

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