BENGALURU LIVE - February 4, 2019

Under fire from various quarters over Friday's Mirage 2000 crash that killed two pilots, the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) had its own test pilot declare on Sunday: "When you blame HAL, you are not blaming a nameless, faceless organisation, but the blame lies squarely on my shoulders. I feel I deserve a fair inquiry before being blamed."

. Savouring authentic Japanese food while exploring education and job opportunities in the Nippon country, buying manga omnibuses, doing a crash course on origami, kirigami and calligraphy: all of these things were available under one roof at the JapanHabba.

. As many as 200 apartments in Bellandur are devoid of BWSSB’s Cauvery water supply, while a few are already in the process of receiving the supply.

. After rescuing three of his friends from drowning, a software engineer from Bengaluru drowned at Mallalli waterfalls on Sunday.

. A 70-year-old woman was found brutally raped and murdered at her house insidea graveyard in Rupena Agrahara near Bommanahalli, South Bengaluru, on Saturday evening.

. The city police arrested a security guard from Uttar Pradesh on charges of attempting to rape an advocate when she was alone at a parking lot last week in Ashok Nagar.

. A software engineer with Infosys was abducted, assaulted and robbed by a gang of four who offered him a drop to Chennai in the early hours of Saturday on Hosur Main Road.

. Last week, a 16-year-old student stabbed and killed his classmate over a love affair. This was the second such murder in a year.

. A software engineer with Infosys was abducted, assaulted and robbed by a gang of four who offered him a drop to Chennai in the early hours of Saturday on Hosur Main Road.

. An under-trial prisoner committed suicide alleging torture by the family members of his wife. The under-trial in question, in fact, is behind the bars forkilling his wife.

. The city police arrested a security guard from Uttar Pradesh on charges of attempting to rape an advocate when she was alone at a parking lot last week in Ashok Nagar.

. An app developed by two teenaged brothers to detect a defect in the eye has won the Grand Prize at the IRIS National Fair, India’s largest research-based science fair for students.

. World Cancer Day 2019 marks the launch of a three-year campaign ‘Iam and I will’, urging cancer survivors, doctors andcaregivers to spread awareness about the disease.

. The railways on Sunday added another train on the Whitefield-Banaswadi route, in a move that willbenefit people travelling to the eastern ends of the city in the evening.

. Civil society on Sunday upped the ante against the marking of trees to be felled, to make way for the proposed steel flyover between Basaveshwara Circle and Mehkri Circle.

. Yeshwantpur-Kannur express train (16527) from Monday onwards will begin the journey from Banswadi station at 8.23 pm.

Kannur-Yeshwantpur express (16528) will end the journey at Banaswadi station at 6.50 am from Tuesday onwards.

BENGALURU LIVE - February 4, 2019

Amid criticism, defence by an HAL test pilot

The land of the rising sun comes alive at Japan Habba

Bellandur apartments demand Cauvery water supply

Techie from Bengaluru drowns after rescuing 3 friends

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