Bengaluru News live Updates: City logs over 200 Covid cases after 88 days

For the first time in 88 days, Bengaluru has reported more than 200 Covid-19 cases in just 24 hours, raising concerns among health authorities. According to the Karnataka health department, the state capital registered a total of 232 cases, while the positivity rate has also increased to 1.20 per cent.

Tilaknagar police have launched a manhunt for a car driver who allegedly ran over a street dog at Jayanagar 9th Block on Friday morning. Police said they have collected CCTV footage from commercial establishments in the area to identify the car. “The quality of the CCTV footage is poor and is being enhanced,” said police, adding that they have registered a criminal case against an unknown person based on a complaint filed by Channakesava CA, who runs amilk booth in the same area.

After promising the people of Whitefield and Mahadevpura that the underpass at Kundalahalli junction would be opened in the first half of May, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has yet again reached an impasse. This is the seventh time in a row that BBMP is missing its deadline in completing the work on the underpass that was launched in February 2019 with a six-month target.

Gig delivery workers appear to be driving the electric vehicle (EV) revolution in the city. For the past two years, a significant number of workers in Bengaluru have switched to EVs, thanks to appbased e-mobility rental firms.

Two senior citizens have been arrested on charges of murdering a 45-year-old construction worker. Police arrested the duo within hours of them finding the body Ashwath, the victim, at 3pm on Saturday.Ramamurthynagar police arrested Srinivas Reddy, 68, and Subbaiah Naidu alias Sriram, 69, for allegedly tying up the victim and bludgeoning him to death.

CM Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said he will talk to education minister BC Nagesh over alleged defaming of the state anthem penned by poet laureate Kuvempu. This follows a letter by Adichunchanagiri Mutt seer Nirmalananda Nath Swamiji to the CM demanding action against culprits who had “distorted” ‘Jai Bharatha Jananiya Tanujathe’. The controversy relates to a video which Rohith Chakrathirtha, head of the state’s textbook revision panel, had posted on his social media account years ago allegedly defaming the song.

Eight members of a family from Bidar, including three women, were killed and as many injured after a Tempo Traveller in which they were travelling collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district around 5.30am Sunday. The tourist vehicle carrying 16 people from Karnataka was headed towards Ayodhya from Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, when the accident occurred.