TV star Salman Khan opens cafe in HSR Layout

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Dancer Salman Yusuff Khan aka Mohammad Ghause who won the dance reality show Dance India Dance has opened the Smally’s restocafe on 27th Main Road in Sector 1 of HSR Layout. It is close to Corner House outlet. According to him, Smally’s is “India’s smallest restaurant chain, 6 outlets & Winner of “The World on a plate 2016”.

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Smally’s restocafe in HSR Layout
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The Oct 2 offer by Smally’s
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He opened the outlet on October 2 with a bumper offer by Uber Eats. Anybody could order a burger for just Rs 6. The offer was valid only for a day. In his Instagram statement, the celebrity dancer, choreographer and actor says, “Another successful opening of @smallysrestocafe at #HSR LAYOUT … #shukranAllah … thank you mom and dad, sadia and Nahiyan for gracing the opening and cutting the ribbon for me.. you are my biggest earning in life, my most precious possession… thank u @nikhilhegde247 for being my best buddy all the way through thick and thin.. and last but not the least @aamiryusufkhan… can’t believe u’ve grown so fast, so mature and responsible… thank you for flourishing the business so well … and my @smallysrestocafe cast and crew, my biggest stars who have made dine in and delivery so much fun and tasteful … special thanks to our chefs … #ramesh and #vijay …. last but not the least, my big bhaiya @saudkhan83 for always being my strength and muscle… #iloveyou#mysmallysfamily Ps: thank u Allah for faiza and hamdan, my biggest source of barakah. Thank u to all the happy customers who have made @smallysrestocafe what it is today.”


In 2015, Smallys resto-cafe bagged the Limca Book of Records for being the smallest restaurant in the country. The six-outlet chain in Bangalore is also popular for it’s not-so-small portions. As Salman says: “Space can never be a constraint to success”.


If you want to know about the complete menu that Smally’s offers, you can visit here.

Bangalore receives 13 cybercrime cases a day!

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The warnings that you have got so far on the various cybercrimes in the city are not to be ignored. Bangalore city alone has received an average of 13 such cases every day this year. So far, close to 3500 complaints have been registered by the Cybercrime police station on Palace Road in central Bangalore.
 
 
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Most of the cases happen to be over phone and online. And much of the cases that we came across happen to be people getting cheated from advertisements placed by fraudulent people on mobile apps, websites and even 24-hour shopping channels.
 
Take the case of 48-year-old Mubin Masarath. On September 29, he ordered for some stuff on Shop CJ, the 24-hour home shopping channel. Around 1230pm, he receives a call asking him to deposit Rs 14,600 into a bank account specified by them over the phone. He does the same and waits for the goods to arrive.
 
When the products never arrive, he realised the fraud and filed a complaint with the cybercrime police station on October 2, 2018. This was the 3457th complaint received by the cybercrime police station in Bangalore this year.
 
Another case received just yesterday (October 3) by the cybercrime police station involved a 28-year-old resident of Sanjaynagar, Gagansri. While looking for a job online, she got an email from “werner.burghardt@t-online.de”. For various reasons, the complainant paid several installments to the bank account number specified in the email and ended up losing Rs 81950. While the reasons are not specified in the FIR, these emails usually tap into the greed of the person and promise to pay you someone’s inheritance, or a lottery if you only pay the shipping charges or interest.
 
When a common person is told that he will get Rs 10 lakh if he just pays 1 lakh, he ends up borrowing the money from everyone and investing all his savings into it, little realising that he is being defrauded.
 
The moral of the story? Nothing comes easy. If the deal is too good to be true, it usually is fraudulent. And if anybody asks you to pay the money first or asks for your debit/credit card numbers, PIN, or OTP, don’t share it with anyone; not even with the bank, shopping website, TV channel, mobile app or any other financial institution.

 

‘Sector 6 to Ecospace took me 2 hours’

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Unlike 20 minutes earlier, it took Mrs Biju Chacko, a resident of Sector 6, almost two hours to reach Ecospace in Bellandur just now.

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Google Maps is telling us that the distance of around 9 kilometres can now be reached in 44 minutes because “fastest route now due to traffic conditions, and it’s getting better”.
Having just reached the office, Mrs Chacko was asking us, “Is there a problem on Outer Ring Road? Left HSR two hours ago and just reached Ecospace. There is bumper to bumper traffic.”
To all those people who are planning to use ORR, this will serve as a forewarning, so you can either postpone your travel plans or defer them.
UPDATEAt 1210pm, Google Maps is showing a 28-minute delay from Sector 6 to Ecospace, and this traffic congestion was first reported as early as 8am. Similarly, there is a 18-minute delay if you are taking the stretch from Jakkasandra to Ecospace.

Illegal parking of trucks on 5th Main

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The problem of illegally parking trucks along 5th Main in Sector 7 continues unabated despite complaints from residents for the last several months. The menace is particularly critical near 24th Cross, according to residents.

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Illegal parking of trucks on 5th Main 9

“The trucks are parked near three vacant sites, adjacent to Imperial Solitaire apartments,” says resident Ratnakar B. “Huge garbage dumping is happening on the footpath in the cover of trucks at night and in the early morning.” The residents complain that pedestrians are forced to walk in the centre of the heavy traffic, fraught with danger. “Many accidents have happened in the past,” says Ratnakar. “The dumped garbage emits foul smell and is unbearable for residents. Although the BBMP contractor is clearing the garbage regularly, the stench is not coming down.”
The residents have complained to not only the BBMP, but also the traffic police and MLA Satish Reddy about this, but no concrete action has been taken so far. What is making the matters worse is that the trucks are owned by operators having offices close by.

LED lights & automatic sensors for residents of Sector 5 & Sector 6

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The residents of Jakkasandra ward 173, including residents of Sector 5 and Sector 6, can expect their streets to be better lit in the coming days.
On Saturday, MLA Ramalinga Reddy and corporator Saraswathamma attended a pooja programme to provide 65 LED lights for the entire ward. And these also include automatic sensor switches that will automatically turn on during sundown, saving precious electricity.

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LED lights & automatic sensors for residents of Sector 5 & Sector 6 11

Many might not know this but the Jakkasandra ward includes areas of Sector 6 (the area behind the Silk Board bus stand right up to Teacher’s Colony) and Sector 5 (the area between Teacher’s Colony and 14th Main Road near Greenview Hospital).


“Our area got about four automatic sensors,” says Mohan Govindiah, secretary, Namma Teacher’s Colony Residents Welfare Association. “The LED street light fittings and control switches in Jakkasandra Ward are being given under the MLA Special Grants scheme, and are worth Rs 25 lakh.”
The pooja was held at 10am on September 29 at the BBMP Park in Sector 5, near Arogya Ahaara restaurant.

When will we get automatic light switches? ask residents

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When will we get automatic light switches? ask residents 13

After the news broke that the neighbouring BTM Layout constituency MLA has given control switches to Ward 173 that automatically switch off the streetlights at dusk, the residents of HSR Layout are demanding similar facility in Ward 174.


For a long time now, the residents have been manually operating the lights. Sometimes, the lights stay on all day if the resident in charge of doing it is out of town. Many residents have suggested in the past that automatic sensors would be a great way to save electricity. When they read about our report that Ramalinga Reddy had used his MLA funds and spent Rs 25 lakh to install LED lights and control switches, the residents are asking MLA Satish Reddy and corporator Gurumurthy Reddy to do the same. When we asked BESCOM officials (Bangalore Electricity Supply Company) about it, they said that their job is to only supply electricity while the BBMP has to provide the control switches.


“We will decide about the control switches after our BBMP Council meeting on October 10,” corporator Gurumurthy Reddy told Residents Watch. “With the mayor just getting elected, there are a lot of development works to be done for HSR Layout. No matter how much we ask, they will only give Rs 3 crore.”


However, the corporator said that he will request for more money because it is required for laying nearly 3000 culverts in HSR ward, changing the sanitary lines, developing the parks and fixing the street upkeep issue. “The sweeping is spotty at best in HSR,” he told Residents Watch. “Under the previous Congress government, the system of payment to garbage contractors was changed. Now BBMP is paying the sweepers (pourakarmikas) and labourers themselves.”


We spoke to HSR garbage contractor Roopesh Reddy, and he admitted to the dismal scenario. “Under the new scheme of the previous government, the labourers who were aged over 60 years or had only one year experience were removed but no new people were hired to replace them,” he told Residents Watch. “There is a labour shortage of almost 50%. The result is that while the door to door garbage collection is going on like before, the sweeping is not being done properly.”


That is not all. The BBMP still owes the garbage contractors money. According to Roopesh, the corporation still has to pay him for the last four months (June to September). “We are hopeful, lets see what happens,” he said.

Residents Watch impact: BDA Complex flyover service road gets fixed overnight

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Within 24 hours of writing about the sad state of the service road under the flyover that was neglected for over two years, the BBMP has fixed the road with a fresh coat of tar.


They have not just filled the pothole, but the entire portion of the problematic stretch to ensure that water does not stagnate. We thank the BBMP for keeping their word with Residents Watch and coming good on their promise.


Once the state government grants the money for the road development works for the city, we could see the entire stretch from Silk Board to Iblur being relaid. But until then, this is a good stop-gap arrangement.

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BEWARE: Death trap at HSR BDA flyover; BBMP promises to fix it tonight

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This stretch of the road next to the flyover near BDA Complex in HSR Layout is treacherous. No matter how much you fill it up, the potholes are formed yet again due to stagnant rainwater caused by bad planning of the BDA. When the water isn’t getting drained into the nearby stormwater drains, potholes are always likely. And many vehicle users have had harrowing experiences out here, particularly when it rains and they have no clue that there are potholes underneath the water waiting to surprise them.

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The stretch of the road under the flyover near BDA Complex in HSR Layout

Despite bringing this sorry state to the attention of the Major Roads department of the BBMP, nothing has been done to fix the waterlogging issue on this thoroughfare. This is particularly dangerous as it’s a major portion of the Outer Ring Road and any mishap will make the BBMP officials directly responsible for it.


Says resident Kavitha Reddy, “It’s been in a bad shape for many years. The key problem is that there is no gradient and when it rains the water, it stagnates upto 2ft, and the road develops killer potholes. All that the BBMP has to do is give a gradient while aspalting the road, so that the rain water reaches the Agara Lake through the stormwater drain.”


Senior BBMP officials informed Residents Watch that the proposal to fix all the major roads in Bangalore have been given to the state government In March 2018, and are awaiting approval. More than Rs 5 crore has been requested for the stretch between Silk Board and Agara flyover.


According to them, the stretch was handed over to the BBMP by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) in 2016, but besides cleaning, they admit that no development work has taken place here under the BBMP regime. “Once the government grants the money for the major roads, all the service roads and flyover roads would be fixed,” the official said.
What about the immediate step of fixing the potholes? “This September 14th, a tender has already been granted to fix the roads in Bommanahalli and this road will also be taken up,” he said.


Ramesh Dev, Assistant engineer, BBMP (Major Roads) told Residents Watch that last night, the BBMP fixed the underpass stretch of Agara flyover from the temple end, and tonight, they will fix the BDA flyover service road as well. “We will maintain the slope, so the water does not stagnate,” he said.

Agara Lake jogging track is usable again. Cycling not allowed yet

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The Agara Lake jogging track is being used by the walkers and joggers again. However, cyclists are not allowed yet. For those tuning in just now, a portion of the muddy pathway had collapsed due to a leakage in the BWSSB pipeline that runs underneath the track. This was because of the tumultuous rains a few days ago.
 
 
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“The Agara Lake track is fixed and people are using it,” says Kavitha Reddy of the Agara Lake Protection & Management Society. “On the first two days, the sewage water was pumped out from the leakage, and later it was filled with mud and gravel. Due to continuous rains, this part of the track is slushy, but once it dries up, it will be evened out, and the tiles on the cycle track will be put back. Currently, the cycles are not allowed as many cyclists will cycle on the mud track and spoil it further. But in a few days, it will be restored back to normalcy!

 

Swift action by HSR cops: Robbers caught within a week

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On September 18, 2018, at around 11.20pm, two people on a bike robbed petrol bunk owner Satyanarayana on 24th Main, 15th B Cross, Sector 1. According to HSR police, the robbers pushed him away, and snatched his bag from the car containing Rs 5.71 lakh in cash and other important documents. Within a week after the case was filed at the HSR police station, inspector DR Nagaraj’s team has impressed everyone with their swift action by apprehending the alleged robbers.


The finger of suspicion rested on the petrol bunk owner’s 32-year-old driver P Dinesh, a native of Mysore. When the cops interrogated him, the truth was out and he admitted to the crime, according to the cops. Dinesh has allegedly said that he brought his accomplices KC Sachin (26 years) and Shreyas (22 years) from Mysore to commit the robbery. The cops have seized Rs 3.1 lakh cash, three mobile phones, one watch and one Bajaj Pulsar bike (KA55-X7888).


The cops involved in this investigation who need to be lauded for their good work include Sub Inspectors Paul Priyakumar and GK Ravi; Assistant Sub Inspector Shivanna, and Head Constables Nagabhushan Gowda, Mallappa Valaki, and constables Umesh, Lakshman Pawar, Bojhraj and Shivanand. We congratulate all the cops for acting swiftly on the case.

Local MLA’s act in BBMP council goes viral today!

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Bommanahalli MLA Satish Reddy
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MLA Satish Reddy who governs the Bommanahalli constituency, which includes HSR Layout, has hit the news headlines today for his undignified act during the Mayoral elections in the BBMP Council.
 
In the video, the MLAs and corporators are seen pushing and shoving each other despite being told by the speaker of the BBMP Council to stay put in their seat. Reminds us of the chair-throwing scene in the parliament many moons ago, Thankfully, it didn’t get to that level here.
 
In the video, we can also see HSR Layout resident and MLC VS Ugrappa answering to a letter submitted by BBMP council’s leader of opposition Padmanabha Reddy. The opposition leader objected to the votes of four Congress members, for which Ugrappa stood up to say that he is in the voter list, and has voted in the last three mayoral elections.
 
 

 

IT firm in Sector 1 suffers damage worth over 50k due to short circuit

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Coviam, an IT company based out of 11th cross, 24th Main, Sector 1, suffered damages worth over Rs 50,000 due to a short circuit.
 
 
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A month ago, Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) installed a High Tension (HT) line from 24th Main near Maha Bazaar right up to 22nd Main where a new marriage hall is coming up. This HT line touches many trees on 11th Cross Road where this IT firm is located. Every time it rains, there are sparks and small fires in the trees. Last week, Coviam suffered a loss of rupees 50,000 caused by short circuit that originated at this High Tension wire next to their building.
 
According to company sources, on September 26, at around 4pm, there was a bigger short circuit and a small fire broke out. This High Tension wire is a fire hazard and a hazard to life and limb of the residents. Coviam has already filed a written complaint to BESCOM AE S11 substation and requested the following to be done immediately:
1. Urgent trimming of trees on 11th Cross Road.
2. Checking if the High Tension Wire is damaged.
 
Residents moving around this area are advised to be cautious until this issue is resolved.