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Wet mattresses, smelly rice, rain fear — Bengaluru East struggles to recover from freak flood

Calling for holistic solutions for newly urbanising, expanding parts of the city, experts suggest govt uses weather apps & desilts drains to avert future disasters.

Nitish runs the ‘Delhi marathon’ & every small party wants to be a ‘big brother’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Too many people & projects taking too long’: Bengaluru civic body chief on infrastructure woes

BBMP Commissioner Gaurav Gupta says infrastructure work has suffered due to lack of coordination between agencies. Bengaluru, he claims, has added nearly 50 lakh people in 10 years.

Slight uptick in cases in Bengaluru but don’t expect 2nd wave kind of scenario: Civic body chief

BBMP Commissioner Gaurav Gupta says 'finding source of Omicron' is very difficult, but 'task at hand is to test, isolate patients and trace contacts of every case'.

Why Bengaluru city corporation not holding polls for corporators is more than a ‘404 error’

The last Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike council’s term ended on 10 September 2020, and with no polls since, the civic agency is being run by government-appointed officials.

Finally some good news from Bengaluru: Covid trends show decline after topping all metros

The city reported 3,992 cases Monday — highest among five Indian metros. Experts say this may not be a cause for concern, noting the decline in cases and demand for beds.

Tejasvi Surya proposes, BBMP disposes, says can’t implement his Covid bed allotment ‘fixes’

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya claimed he would get BBMP to reform bed allotment ‘within 100 hours’, but by next day, most processes returned to the way they were, with minor tweaks.

BBMP reinstates 16 Muslim workers suspended after Tejasvi Surya row, but 5 refuse to return

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya had read out names of 17 Muslim workers on a visit to Bengaluru’s south zone Covid war room. They were suspended & probed by police, one was arrested.

Bengaluru councillors’ term ended in Sept but over half are still holding onto official iPads

Only 76 of the 198 councillors of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, who had been given these gadgets, have returned the iPads. 

As BJP protests, Bengaluru stalls plan to rename 11 roads in Muslim areas after Muslim leaders

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya said the decision to name roads in Muslim-majority areas after Muslims reeks of the 'communal mentality of Jinnah’s two-nation theory'.

On Camera

Air India crash report shows an institutional reform of AAIB and aviation ministry is in order

The civil aviation ministry could have recognised the enormity of the Air India crash and prepared the AAIB and its investigating team for its sensitivities.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.