Koramangala

All the news about Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Coronavirus: Dispose off gloves, masks in sealed covers, Indira canteens to give free food to poor, BBMP’s additional helpline numbers…

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COVID-19 helpline

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has set up a command and control centre ‘war room’ to tackle the coronavirus epidemic in the city. In the first such directive from the cell, the residents are requested to dispose off masks and gloves in a sealed cover separately. In addition, cashless transactions are encouraged to reduce transmission … Read more

Spotted a person in public place with home quarantine stamp? Call 100

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contact tracing

The Bangalore police is hunting down people violating the home quarantine rules to combat COVID-19. Such persons can be put behind bars for six months or pay a hefty fine or both. While some residents feel that the stamp could be hidden by gloves, the others recommend the Singapore model of contact tracing using GPS … Read more

Coronavirus news: Half the IT workforce is working from home in Bangalore; residents conduct awareness campaigns & more

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coronavirus awareness campaigns

In an informal survey by the Whitefield Rising group, 570 people voted and the result was that as of March 14, 2020, 52.5% people were working from home. While the state government had requested the IT/BT companies to exercise the ‘work from home’ (WFH) option, the reality is that only a few sectors are able … Read more

Coronavirus: What You Should Do Now!

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COVID-19

Take it seriously. Don’t bother with people who say that you are simply panicking as there are no deaths in India so far, and only about 74 people are infected. The reasons the counts are less could be because it takes 14 days for the virus to show up through symptoms, and by then imagine … Read more

Coronavirus: Everything you need to know

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coronavirus

With information overload, fear mongering, and much misinformation spreading across the social media channels, it is important to know about the most reliable sources of information. For example, there was news that China had approved a vaccine for coronavirus, when the truth is that there was no such news by any official source of the … Read more

Fraudsters steal Rs 1.5 lakh from Whitefield resident’s credit card; RBL Bank refunds money

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credit card fraud

It’s best to transact through credit cards rather than debit cards as such instruments are insured by the bank against any kind of fraud. Thirty-year-old K Sekhar Babu of Whitefield realised this when he noticed that fraudsters had used his credit card to withdraw Rs 1.5 lakh in three equal installments, even though he hadn’t … Read more

Hold elevated corridor; prioritise Suburban rail, metro, UMTA: Residents

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suburban rail

The residents are crying hoarse over the state government’s misplaced priorities. While the cash crunch is prompting the chief minister to ask every government department to cut down on expenses, the government is also mulling over introducing the Rs 27000 crore elevated corridor. The residents are against it, because they believe that during a cash … Read more

Stunt rider caught on camera; residents want cops to jail such people for risking lives!

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wheelies

When this video of a person doing wheeling on Outer Ring Road near HRBR Layout was tweeted to the city cops on February 28, 2020, the RT Nagar traffic police booked against the rider for wheeling the very next day. However, the residents want such people to be jailed and his licence cancelled. The BTM … Read more

Fraudulent ads in media; cops take action on advertisers!

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Fraudulent ads in media; cops take action on advertisers! 2

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) is hard at work. From raiding hookah bars and prostitution joints to drug traffickers, the latest news is that it has booked one person for releasing fraudulent advertisements in the print media, and cheating them of their monies.  According to Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), people should not … Read more

Plans to decongest Bangalore halted since 2017; residents slam politicians

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B.TRAC plan

A query using the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed that the government of HD Kumaraswamy and Siddaramaiah, the Congress-JD(S) combine sat on a Rs 56 crore B.TRAC proposal to decongest Bangalore since 2017. While there is no word on what the BJP government is planning to decongest the city, there are sporadic announcements … Read more

‘QR code’ scam on the rise; city cops nab five people in Rajasthan!

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QR code scam

The city cops have confirmed that cyber crimes, particularly QR code frauds have gone up of late. Says Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sandeep Patil: “Cheating on OLX/Quikr and other online shopping portals have increased in recent times. A special team of City Crime Branch of 12 officers camped in Rajasthan for 20 days and … Read more