Bengaluru Live - March 14, 2019

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1 lakh sign online petitions against elevated corridor

The threat posed by the controversial elevated corridor to hundreds of fully-grown trees in the city’s green heart has sparked a massive citizens’ outrage. This palpable anger is being channelised both online and offline for a protest this weekend, even as a petition on Change.org garnered one lakh signatures.

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Kidney cure very costly, only 5% can afford it

On the eve of World Kidney Day, healthcare professionals warned that nearly 100 million people in India could be suffering from some form of kidney disease, which can be fatal if untreated.

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Traffic at 9

Weather at 9: 27 degrees with an expected peak of 33

Truck mows boy down, locals lynch driver

A six-year-old boy riding pillion on a scooter died after a cement truck ran him over in southern Bengaluru on Sunday. Minutes later, furious local residents beat the truck driver to death. Six people have been arrested for the lynching.

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Citizens supporting elevated corridor petition DyCM

Citizens representatives and RWAs petitioned the deputy chief minister urging to clarify about the project as the debate over the proposal has been ‘skewed by a few angry voices’.

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Premji hikes allocation to charity to Rs 1.45L cr

Bengaluru’s billionaire businessman Azim Hashim Premji hasincreased the allocation towardsphilanthropy at IT Major Wipro Ltd.

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Closing hour tiff: Woman hurls abuses at cop, arrested

The city police arrested a 35-year-old woman freelance journalist for abusing and assaulting a woman police sub-inspector in the wee hours of March 12, after an argument over dinner at a hotel which was about to close for the day in Koramangala.

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Farmers end stir after promise on Peripheral Ring Road

The 30-hour-long protest by around 100 farmers and land losers before the Bangalore Development Authority head office ended Wednesday after Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara’s intervention.

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Focus on benami land deals in gangster murder

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths probing the murder of gangster Lakshmana found that he had 23 properties in his name in the city and many other benami properties in Maddur, Tavarekere and other places.

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Valveman eaten by wild animals: Police

A valveman from Thammaganahalli, missing for the past three months, was found deadon March 12 in a forest in Doddabelavangala.

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No end to white-topping woes, RV Road works start

White-topping of the five-kilometre stretch between Prof Shivashankar Circle (Lalbagh West Gate) to Banashankari TTMC beginning today, may result in further traffic chaos.

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Women say public transport unsafe

Womenwho responded to a survey saidpublictransport has not been safe, reliable and affordable for them.

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NGT stays peripheral ring road project

The National Green Tribunal has restrained the Karnataka government from going ahead with a 65-km peripheral ring road in Bengaluru, connecting Tumakuru Road to Hosur Road crossing Ballari Road and Old Madras Road.

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