City News

Two agents of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Karachi-based underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s henchman Chhota Shakeel have been caught distributing funds to Maoists in Andhra Pradesh.

The police have recovered an unlicensed country-made pistol and seven bullets, and visas and other travel documents from the two: Vinay Kumar, 30, of Hassan, and Devaiah, alias Sachin, 33, of South Coorg.

The two were on a mission along with three hardcore Maoists — the conduits — to hand over funds to the extremists, said police commissioner Shankar M Bidari.

After 16 years in city, it is time for Basant and Neetu, the sloth bear pair at historic Maharajbagh Zoo, to say goodbye. The pair is off to Bannerghatta zoo near Bangalore, as per the direction of Central Zoo Authority (CZA), where hopefully it will have better living conditions and more company.

Dr Abhijeet Motghare, zoo incharge, said all arrangements to move the animals have been made. Prof Ram Gawande, PRO, Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (PDKV), Nagpur Zone, said a seven-member team headed by veterinary officer Dr Yeduraj is reaching Nagpur from Bannerghatta tonight and the operation to shift the two bears in a day or two.

Former President A P J Abdul Kalam late on Thursday unveiled a mobile dialysis unit at Manipal Hospital in this tech hub to provide the facility at an ailing patient’s doorstep.

As against the practice of patients with kidney ailments going to hospital for dialysis, the air-conditioned mobile unit can be taken to homes of those ailing and unable to travel or prefer the treatment at their house.

Fearing arrest after an unsuccessful attempt at chain snatching, three youths murdered a member of their own gang and dumped his body at an isolated spot at the Railway Colony in Yeshwanthpura in Bangalore.

The victim was identified as Manjunath, a habitual offender involved in several robbery cases.

Police recovered Manjunath’s highly decomposed body on July 11. The murderers had slit his throat and disfigured his face to conceal his identity.

Kartik Kalaichelvan (22) and Pratik Kalaichelvan (19), brothers from Bangalore, were killed on Tuesday night when their single-engine plane nosedived into a hayfield in Hood County, Texas.

Local news media reported that the brothers, along with their friend Casey Brinegar (26), to whom the aircraft was registered, were on “a fun trip to Stephenville for a barbeque — a Texas treat for a college student from India visiting his brother in Arlington.”

As many looked for answers and possible motive behind the brutal killing of the woman lawyer in Karnataka High Court, reports on a possible twist of jilted love has come to the forefront.

Naveena died on Thursday, Jul 8 after being stabbed repeatedly by a male colleague at the High Court in Bangalore. The man who attacked her has been identified as Advocate Rajappa. He tried to kill himself after killing the lady lawyer.

A leading tabloid has reported that Rajappa was moved to take the extreme step out of anger that Naveena turned down his marriage proposal.

Dismissing charges that Bangalore police have begun moral policing by enforcing a dress code for girls working in bars, police commissioner Shankar Bidari on Friday said the department was ensuring that the girls were not exploited.

According to him, police were prompted to enforce a dress code for bar girls after they learnt that many girls were brought to Bangalore with false assurances. “Most of them are from North. The girls were assured that they would be event management hosts. When they came here, they found themselves working in bars. We rescued them and sent them back to Rajasthan,’’ Bidari said.

Bangalore: With the arrest of a 40-year-old man, the Bangalore police claim to have busted a major fake certificate racket spread across India and abroad.

The accused used to sell fake degree certificates, mark sheets, and transfer certificates of various universities to failed students.

Mumbai beat Bangalore by a margin of about Rs 200 crore to become India’s top biotech city in terms of revenue, according to a recent industry survey.

City-based biopharmaceuticals firm Biocon, known for its insulin and cancer drugs, had the highest revenue in 2009-10 growing at 29.34 pc to record revenues of Rs 1,180 crore, according to a survey jointly conducted by the Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE) and monthly journal Biospectrum.

A seven-year-old boy, who was born with eight limbs over his chest area, has recently been successfully operated on at the Fortis Hospital, Bangalore in order to help him lead a normal life.

The boy Deepak Paswan had suffered years of discomfort and social stigma due to a parasitic twin conjoined to his abdomen [between the chest and the hips that contains the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen.] , which meant he had four legs and four arms but one head.