Bengaluru news live: BMTC employees to protest today, services won’t be hit

Close on the heels of a four-day transport strike in December, BMTC employees will hold a demonstration in front of the corporation’s headquarters at Shantinagar bus terminus on Wednesday. However, bus services won’t be affected. A section of transport unions, including CITU, has decided to stage a protest at 1pm and submit a memorandum to BMTC officials on various demands.

The National Investigation Agency probing the August 11 east Bengaluru violence filed a chargesheet at the special NIA court last week. Read full story

Eight associations of school managements have threatened to strike from February 23 if the government does not revoke its order that mandates schools to collect only 70% of tuition fees for the current academic year. Read full story

An abysmal 13% of the registered frontline workers got inoculated against Covid-19 on Tuesday in the BBMP limits, raising questions over the authorities’ ability to address the issue of vaccine hesitancy. While 13,126 frontline workers were to get the jab at 191 session sites, only 1,718 turned up, confirming that vaccine fears still rule among the targeted beneficiaries. Read full story

Senior JD(S) MLC Basavaraj Horatti was on Tuesday elected chairman of the legislative council amid furore in the House over passage of the anti-cow slaughter bill. Read full story