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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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.

Latest News !

Tulip acquires data center facility in Bangalore.

          BANGALORE: Tulip Data Center Services Pvt Ltd, an arm Tulip Telecom, has acquired the data center facility here from SADA IT Parks Pvt Ltd (SADA)for Rs 230 crore. The company has also decided to undertake Rs 670-crore investment in the coming three years for facility upgradation.

             Mr Sanjay Jain, CEO of Tulip Telecom, said, “The company has made Rs. 230 crore as the upfront payment, which will come from Tulip's balance sheet, while about Rs. 270 crore will be generated from the Data Center revenues, and about Rs. 400 will come from external funding for which we are in discussion with strategic investors.”

            This data centre is spread across 900,000 sq ft. The firm is planning to fulfill the demand of both foreign and domestic customers via this data centre.

IT & Electronics

Karnataka govt. approves IT & Electronic hardware project:-

         BANGALORE: The Government of Karnataka has approved the new IT and Electronic Hardware guidelines.

              The IT and electronic hardware industries account for 20 percent of the State’s GDP. The State Government has allotted Rs.25crore for the implementation of the project. The State Government plans to construct four IT parks in cities such as Bangalore and Mysore.