Bengaluru LIVE - December 16, 2018

Simply installing a CCTV camera near houses is not enough - they have to be maintained properly, say Bengalureans.

. Beyond the 731 CCTV cameras currently installed in the CBD, the city police have identified 5,494 locations with a high footfall of women to put up these surveillance devices. A senior police official informs that the systems will be financed under the Nirbhaya Fund allocated for the State.

. Home minister G Parameshwara on Saturday warned criminals that the police would not hesitate to use firearms against them to maintain law and order.

. Bangalore Club, the elite, British-era club in the heart of the city,released a coffee-table book, postal covers and stamps on Saturday tocommemorate its150th-year celebrations.

. The true colour of the Karnataka government has come to the fore with its ‘recommendation’ to reduce the extent of the ESZ around the Bannerghatta National Park.

. As part of the intensive social media campaign ahead of the Swacch Survekshan, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has taken the first step by opening a forum called ‘Swaccha Sundara Bengaluru’ in social media.

. A solid waste management park - considered India's first - located in BBMP's HSR Park has been christened 'Ananthanavana' in memory of the late Union minister, Ananth Kumar.

. A sharpshooter and an aide of underworld criminal Chhota Rajan, Yusuf Suleiman Kadri, has accused three policemen with the City Armed Reserve of accepting a bribe and misbehaving with his sister.

. The death toll in the food poisoning incident at a temple in Chamarajnagar district rose to 13 with two more deaths Sunday, Health Department officials said. Read more

. Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has ordered a probe into the blast that occurred at a sugar distillery the Kulali village in Mudhol, Bagalkot district that killed six persons on Sunday.

. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will soon be constructing a new road from Jakkur village to National Highway-7. Read more

Bengaluru LIVE - December 16, 2018

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