Series: Namma Ooru News

This week’s scan of major Kannada dailies has briefs on BBMP objecting to private no-parking signboards, disappearing sparrows, Malleswaram ‘blunderpass’, students riding motorbikes to schools and more.

This week’s scan of major Kannada dailies has briefs on hooch smugglers, a government school demolition for road-widening, and more.

The BDA’s new commissioner H Siddaiah met with citizens at the BDA complex in Koramangala on 17 May. An unexpected and dramatic scene unfolded.

The Karnataka government’s new rule on word-limiting RTI applications will increase paperwork, pending cases and appeals, argue activists.

This week’s scan of the major Kannada dailies has stories from the polling booths in the aftermath of the elections, to a new land scandal involving sub-registrars.

Because of the government’s equity stake and a range of tax, cess and other exemptions granted to BIAL, the Karnataka Information Commission has taken the view that BIAL must respond to RTI applications.

A meeting with prime minister Manmohan Singh on 8 May was somehow billed as a non-partisan ‘citizens meet’, with the promise of interaction. Instead, the opposite happened.

Citizen Matters starts a special series to bring select city news from Kannada dailies, summarised for you. This scan runs from May 1-8.