BBMP took up renovation work more than a year back. Work started in December 2022 and has been ongoing. Inspired by the facelift given to Church Street and Commercial Street, the Palike proposal involves turning the VV Puram food street that sees heavy footfall into a more organised avenue for food lovers.
Last year, the campaign led to Muslims being excluded from 60 temple fairs in coastal Karnataka, according to Mohammed Arif, the secretary of the Udupi district street vendors’ association.
Student suicide rocks campus
Probe reveals engg student was good in studies; peers claim institution put too much pressure
High drama prevailed inside the campus of Bangalore Institute of Technology after a 20-year-old engineering student allegedly died by
suicide on Monday morning, ahead of his exams. Following the incident, fellow
students started protesting outside the college accusing the management of not giving enough time to prepare for the
exams and causing mental pressure upon students.
The deceased has been identified as
Jayanth K Reddy, son of Subramanya Reddy, a contractor and a resident of Doddabommasandra. He was a second-year engineering student in