Actor Darshan Released from Jail today

Today Actor Darshan has been released from jail today evening after 29 days in judicial custody.

Actor Darshan and his wife Vijayalakshmi

               Actor Darshan was arrested on September 9 and remanded to judicial custody for two weeks. Meanwhile, the Karnataka Film Producers' Association, playing moral police, had imposed a 3-year ban on actor Nikita Thukral. She was named by Vijaylakshmi in her first statement to the police and the association alleged that an affair with her was the reason for the dispute between Darshan and his wife. Nikita has been Darshan's co-star in a few films. The Producers' Association, when asked, said it did not need to penalise Darshan because a legal case was handling complaints of domestic violence against him.

              Nikita claimed to have no involvement in the entire episode and said she was being unnecessarily dragged into the controversy and punished with the ban. Darshan's bail plea was rejected on September 14 by the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Venkatesh Hulagi, stating that he did not have jurisdiction to handle the case filed under IPC Section 307 (attempt to murder). Earlier, Darshan's attempts to secure bail suffered a setback despite his wife retracting her statement in the court on Monday, September 12.  She said her head injuries resulted from a fall in the bathroom, contrary to her allegations in a police complaint on September 8 that Darshan had assaulted and threatened her at gun point.

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South Indian Actress Yamuna Arrested !

By Agencies Bengaluru:

             South Indian actress Yamuna is in news for wrong reasons. She has been arrested for charges of prostitution from a city hotel in Bangalore. The business of flesh trade has been popular in the city for several years. Yamuna along with seven others were arrested after police conducted a raid on the hotel. Shankar M Bidari, city police commissioner stated “We cannot reveal anything about the racket. We are quite certain, though, that it has a network spread across the country.” Yamuna was offered a whopping amount of Rs 2 lakh for this assignment. Police sources stated “On specific information, we conducted a raid on room no. 1402, 4th floor in ITC Royal Gardenia Hotel, Bangalore. During the raid, we have recovered Rs. 2 laks from actress Yamuna and Rs 46,000 from her pimp Surakshit of Puttur in Andhra Pradesh.” Source said further, “Customer Nandakumar, the owner of Transoft Call Centre and a resident of Kasthuri Nagar in Indira Nagar, has been arrested. Nandakumar’s Toyota Forturner and pimps’ Hundai Electra cars have also been seized.”

Bangalore Renamed !

Bangalore To Be Renamed As Bengaluru

                     Bangalore, according to state historians, got its name from Bendakalooru (the town of boiled beans) after a king strayed into the area during a hunting trip in the late 14th century. A woman offered him a meal of boiled beans which the king enjoyed so much that he named the town after the dish. Bengaluru is a transliteration of the original spelling, according to state historians.

The Route map of Bengaluru Metro !

Bengaluru Metro Route Map

Countdown begins !

                  Work on Namma Metro’s Reach One stations has been fast-tracked, as chief minister BS Yeddyurappa announced on Tuesday that the trial run of the Metro train is scheduled to begin on January 24.

Yeddyurappa will inspect progress of work soon, and will take a ride on the train even as it does the trial runs.

                 There are six stations on Reach One, between Byappanahalli and MG Road. All stations have been witnessing work at a brisk pace. With just a week to go before trial runs begin, Metro officials find their hands tied. There is much work still to be done on the stations before the trial runs.

Questioned about all the work that remains to be done and the fast-approaching deadline, BLY Chavan, spokesperson of the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), said, “Work pressure has remained more or less the same. However, it is true that there is a lot of work still to be done before the trial runs begin.”

                 At the Byappanahalli Metro depot, where the station is at grade (meaning that it is at ground level), construction is ongoing on the foot over-bridge within the depot, connecting the station’s main entrance to the Old Madras Road.

                 Workers have been instructed that the ramp has to be ready for use by January 23. Ticketing counters at the Byappanahalli station will be made near the entrance gates at the Old Madras Road side of the depot. Structures for erecting the main frame of the foot over-bridge for the Swami Vivekananda (SV) Station on SV Road are being readied. Workers have been instructed that this work should be complete by Sunday.

              The station at Byappanahalli is getting whitewashed. The station on Chinmaya Mission Hospital (CMH) Road has already been whitewashed; it will soon get a coat of paint. The back wall of the Mahatma Gandhi (MG Road) Station has been painted yellow.

Many teams have been working simultaneously at different stations and junctions of Reach One. Security arrangements too are being made, ahead of trial runs.

              Escalators at all stations have been fitted. Half-walls are being erected, as boundaries to the stations. The third train, which was brought to the yard on Wednesday, was coupled only on Tuesday night. Electrical connections will be made into the coaches for static tests on the new train. Meanwhile, sources in the BMRC said that the committee for deciding the fares has already prepared a report. It is expected to meet next week; according to the BMRCL website, fares are expected to be one-and-a-half times the bus fares in the city.

Run all the way !

Bengaluru: People in this tech hub have found a new way to raise funds to help educate the poor children and in the process, stay fit.
For 48 hours from 5 p.m. Friday, groups of people will run or cycle to raise at least Rs.200,000 to fund an NGO to educate the poor children here.

'Someone or some group will be running or cycling from 5 p.m. on Jan 21 to 5 p.m. on Jan 23 in Bangalore. One group will be cycling to Hyderabad, about 560 km away,' Kavitha Kanaparthi, one of the organizers, said.

Called the Strides of Hope to help NGO Asha-Bangalore, the 48-hour run/cycle marathon is also intended to encourage Bangaloreans to take up a healthy and environment friendly lifestyle, she said.

'This is also an effort to raise awareness about education for the underprivileged children in India,' said Kavitha, who describes herself as a full-time endurance athlete and owns 'Globe racers', a professional running organization.

Asha-Bangalore said that it 'supports education of underprivileged children and initiatives that help empower communities as a whole'.

The NGO currently supports six projects in India and raises funds through marathon program(running/cycling), monthly donations and calendar sales.

Other organizers of the event include 'Runner's High', which provides coaching and training for the runners, 'Runners for Life', a recreation company, 'Contours International' that helps women to stay fit.

The event is being organized for the second time. Last year, about 350 people took part, together logging 3,000 km.

'This time, we target 1,500 participants and 15,000-plus km.'

Kavitha added that two or three people are looking to run/walk for all the 48 hours.

'Many people will start cycling to Hyderabad but around 10 will continue all the way to the city. Others will return to Bangalore after riding a distance they are comfortable with.'

Kavitha and her co-organizers have appealed to people either to join in the running or cycling along the route the organisers have chosen or do it at any other location.

'If you are a group of 10 or more runners or riders you can run/ride at your own location. For example, employees of a company can get together and run around their office, children from a school could run in their campus.

'We will all be a part of the Strides of Hope team,' the organisers said in their appeal.

Kavitha said the organizers expect at least 50 to 60 percent people who participated in the event last year to take part this year too.

On the number of Bangaloreans who have taken to running, she said, 'There are easily about 10,0000 runners in Bangalore, whether they run one kilometer, 20 km, 40 km or longer distances.'

'Bangalore is known to be one of the most active cities in the country.'

The organizers have plans to 'educate' the city vehicle drivers, considered notorious by cyclists and pedestrians.

Asked how they intended to make vehicle drivers behave, Kavitha said, 'We, cyclists, have been working with police to create awareness, conduct classes and create ads for this purpose.'

On plans for a sustained campaign for a dedicated cycle lane here, she said, 'It's being done by the cycling community. We have faced many life threatening situations while cycling, and I, too, have been in accidents, coming close to death situations.