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Students stick barcodes on trees to identify their names
@nitte
college
#mangaluru
1932 trees have already been
#geotagged
on
#GoogleMaps
on the 50 acre campus
@NewIndianXpress
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BJP's winning candidate in Bengaluru South, Tejasvi Surya was confident that
#Annamalai
would cause an explosive growth of BJP in TN in 2026, and will be sworn in as CM there.
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Final journey of Capt Pranjal
The men of the family, friends, relatives, and locals joined in the 20-km journey from the house to crematorium.
Throughout, the family kept their composure.
Visitors decorated the glass casket with wreaths and garlands, cheering Amar Rahe.
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Is this an ongoing trend in Bengaluru where landlords are kicking current tenants out and increasing rents? I've heard three people so far. I thought it was only my landlady doing this. 😕
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DKShivkumar walked right into the crowd where BJP supporters were. He just went past. Election result not declared yet for Jayanagar. Meanwhile BBMP Chief commissioner Tushar Girinath entered the building. All waiting 4 Manoj Kumar Meena here
#KarnatakaElectionResults
#jayanagar
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Her sleeve reads : Namma kasa namma javabdhari. Our waste, our responsibility.
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How many times do we have to raise this issue till its solved
@BMTC_BENGALURU
.
Buses are fewer in number around this hour at Brigade junction.
Students, employees all wait. A complete rush follows when the bus arrives. Passengers struggle to even get off. Q
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Travelled by this bus. Had given Rs 100 to the conductor for a journey from brigade junction . Conductor gives me back rs 35 and this Rs 10 worth ticket.
After reminding him of his mistake, gives me a rs 5 ticket at my destination. Refuses to return rs 50 change
@BMTC_BENGALURU
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Increased hatered after Shakti scheme in general? Bus Ka57f2929. The conductor says get up and stand, you're sitting on men's seat. Goes on for sometime about it in a threatening voice. Have noticed unruly behavior with other female passangers in the bus
@RLR_BTM
@BMTC_BENGALURU
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#Bengaluru
BMTC buses begin QR code based payment
@BMTC_BENGALURU
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@WFRising
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Drinking water can for customers on G3 bus. Conductor Srinivas said he put it there so anyone who needs water, can have some. 😊
He refills the can at any one of three public RO water points that gives you 20 litres drinking water when you insert a Rs 5 coin
@BMTC_BENGALURU
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My phone got stolen in Jayanagar yesterday morning by two men on a scooty with no number plate. Bumped into two other people in Jayanagar who witnessed/faced phone theft 24 hours prior to my incident. Is public transport and walking in d area really that dangerous?
@Sowmyareddyr
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Now one doesn't have to visit the sub registrar's office for registering their marriage under Hindu Marriage Act. A cerificate is generated at home by providing your wedding invite, video, Aadhaar, said revenue minister
@krishnabgowda
at the portal launch today
@TOIBengaluru
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Requesting transport minister
@RLR_BTM
to send transport officials on the g3 route at this hour. If they dont nearly faint from suffication, hats off.
@BMTC_BENGALURU
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Good news! Phone's back. Indemnity bond and a few signatures later, my phone was released. Thank you for all your support through this :) Credit where credit is due.
Another shout out to
@thilaknagaraps
! Thanks a ton :)
PS: six other phones were found from d same pair of boys
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Its been a year since tabs are used for ticketing in premium class
#trains
says the TTE. Live data gets transmitted to
#CRIS
system. Tickets can be checked at ease, fines updated. Printing of fines is yet to be facilitated on the system
@KARailway
@XpressBengaluru
@RailMinIndia
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RIP
#PuneethRajkumar
, remembering the ambassador for Right to Education and youth icon who championed ITIs
via
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
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Vittal Mallya road chockablock with vehicles and people who flock Kanteerava stadium for
#karnatakacm
oath taking. Worried look on students' faces at St Josephs Indian PU college who have come two hours early for
#kcet
exam
@TOIBengaluru
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Professional update: I have joined the Times Of India, Bengaluru this week. Thanks for being with me on this journey and for continuing to do so. :)
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#Karnataka
breaking
Second PUC exams are cancelled this year announces minister
@nimmasuresh
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@santwana99
@Cloudnirad
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#BTS2020
In Bengaluru city if children step out of home, they are into traffic. When children grow without kowing open space, what kind of adults will they be. Is a bonsai the same as full grown tree? Are we making humans Bonsai? :
@SadhguruJV
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
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#Karnataka
breaking
SSLC examinations for 8.75 lakh students will be held in July third week said minister
@nimmasuresh
Two papers only -
1) Core subjects (Science, Maths, Social Science) combined in MCQ pattern
2) Languages
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@santwana99
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I'm not sure what more proof is needed
@BMTC_BENGALURU
that we need more buses. Been a year at least and nothing seems to change.
Here, people are just standing out, hoping someone will somehow make space.
@RLR_BTM
@siddaramaiah
@DKShivakumar
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#KarnatakaElectionResults
At Jayanagar counting centre, you can hear chants. Someone outside took the 2nd video. But in here, its wait and watch. DK Shivkumar expected. DK Suresh is said to have fought with cops outside. Police told no political persons allowed in
@TOIBengaluru
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Thanks
@BMTC_BENGALURU
for the free ride. I haven't seen so many smiling faces, surprised to have been treated for
#InternationalWomensDay
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Number of people waiting for infrequent buses at a busy hour at brigade road junction.
@BMTC_BENGALURU
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@SamyukthaHegde
@BlrCityPolice
@CPBlr
Shame on us as a society that girls have to consider going back home quietly into their shells because the authority meant to protect them couldn't stand up to bullies
1) That we dont show the youth that bullies should be stood up to and justice will prevail
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All the best to all the travelers leaving the city for the long weekend. This, here, is Madiwala.
#Bengaluru
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The moment when dhoom machale starts playing in your head
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#KarnatakaElectionResults
Upset Congress supporters look to a fair conclusion. DK Suresh confirmed to TOI that BJP is declared winner by 16 votes and none of Congress' objections and a petition will be filed with regard to counting at
#jayanagar
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#nohonking
campaign for a day by St Josephs High School students in
#Bengaluru
School Boys held placards "let us study." "dont honk near schools" "have civic sense"
@blrcitytraffic
@NammaBengaluroo
@citizensforblr
@XpressBengaluru
@NewIndianXpress
@santwana99
@Cloudnirad
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People from across the city formed long queues. Showered him with affection, respect and flowers, as he made his final journey.
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In his inaugural speech at Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021, VP
@MVenkaiahNaidu
conveyed condolences on the sudden demise of actor
@PuneethRajkumar
#BTS
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@santwana99
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Azim Premji University has compiled a booklet that lists all major government announcements with respect to
#COVID19
relief measures. Language simplified to make it more accessible to community workers and grassroots activists. Translations in regional languages underway
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.
@BMTC_BENGALURU
why cant more buses be provided in routes where there's a rush during certain hours in a day?
@BBPVedike
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With COVID19 cases on the rise, students seek to
#postponevtuexams
and Bengaluru City University exams due to start on Monday
@drashwathcn
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Update: Good news. Got a call this morning from Thilak Nagar police station. My phone was retrieved. It's been a week since the incident. So, remarkable speed. Thanks
@BlrCityPolice
, and for having intervened
@Sowmyareddyr
! Some formalities left before its handed over.
My phone got stolen in Jayanagar yesterday morning by two men on a scooty with no number plate. Bumped into two other people in Jayanagar who witnessed/faced phone theft 24 hours prior to my incident. Is public transport and walking in d area really that dangerous?
@Sowmyareddyr
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#KarnatakaElectionResults
BJP supporters are put on the other side of the barricaded area. Quiet. Also closer to them is MP
@Tejasvi_Surya
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At least its not flooding, they said. Yes I said. And we went on to accept all that was around us.
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#Mangalore
is losing its appeal along with its trees
Pls make it green and breezy again
@MangaloreCity
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Told him i will be filing a complaint. Also write to
@BSBommai
he said :) what is this supposed to mean
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Australia is seeking to establish a consulate general in Bengaluru, said Australian PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021
#BTS
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@santwana99
@narendramodi
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#Bengaluru
#News
Meat stalls that provide fish and meat will remain closed and non veg will not be served in restaurants in 10 km radius of Airforce Station Yelahanka from Jan 30 to Feb 20.
#AeroIndia
will be held at the Airforce station from February 13 to 17.
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Ssr is receiving data from orbiter . Lander orbiter communication is on
@isro
announces
@santwana99
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
#Chandrayaan2Landing
#Chandrayan2
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#KarnatakaHijabRow
@CampusFrontInd
Karnataka State Committee condemned the incident of Mount Carmel College,
#Bengaluru
"denying a constitutional right to wear turban"
College authorities said objection to student wearing
#Turban
came from other students
@News9Tweets
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@KRRameshKumar1
Surprisingly no one even objected as soon you said it in the assembly. Reflective of the deep rooted patriarchal mindset among all our leaders to have been laughing at the "joke". Need some sensitising lessons , you all.
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K S Bhagwan's book on Ram Mandir, which hurt majoritarian sentiments, is dropped from the list of books to be purchased for public libraries in
#Karnataka
. The State level book selection committee announced today
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@santwana99
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It is not the traffic, but garbage and polluting transportation that are the most critical issues faced by Bengaluru today,
@deepolice12
ADGP, Railways had said
@BBMPCOMM
here's your vehicle
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Within seconds of posting my story on Dropped Chapters back in Karnataka school textbooks and writers being furious, my account was suspended. Care to explain
@Meta
?
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#KarnatakaElectionResults
Soooo, here goes an update from outside because I'm no longer allowed back inside.
Beyond barricades, but undeterred. Party loyalists have been here since morning.
DK bros denied entry sit out, hold a presser
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Every 50mts a hand appears in yogish's way. He's been doing rounds since morning, without a break ferrying people from flooded streets
#mangaluru
#Monsoon2018
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@SamyukthaHegde
@BlrCityPolice
@CPBlr
2) Implicitly support mob justice/violence
3) And such a case will never be considered as harrassment and the victim will be asked to come to the station or sent home to give the mob a feel good sense
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#Karnataka
2879 centres & 8.48 lalk students. SSLC board exam for class 10 students begins today
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
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#IISc
stands with
#JamiaMilia
#Aligarh
. Students plan one day sit in today
#Bengaluru
students rise in solidarity
#RejectCAB
#CABProtests
#India
#AMURejectsCAB
#SOSJAMIA
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@iiscbangalore
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#bangalorerains
The subway that connects the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Majestic metro station to the city railway station
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This is supposed to among first few buses that ran from Vidhana Soudha to Majestic via Raj Bhavan.
@TOIBengaluru
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#KarnatakaElectionResults
BJP declared victory Jayanagar. Huge celebration. On this side of the barricade. Counter cheers also erupt on the Congress side.
@TOIBengaluru
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*An Appeal*
I am *Dhanar Majhi*, an *Adivasi* student from Koraput District, Odisha. I want to pursue higher education but due to financial difficulties I am finding it hard. I worked as *migrant labour* to support my under-graduation.
1/n
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A senior army officer said, there was still a sense of denial about the death.
Some of Capt Pranjal's friends and acquaintances came down from Mangaluru. He was raised in Suratkal.
Unanimously, those who knew the young officer, remember there was a very soft side to him.
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The talk on churchstreet right now is "it's going to raaaain!!!"
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Want an offroading experience in the city? Come live in Bengaluru
#Koramangala
perpetually offroading
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#KarnatakaElectionResults
#Jayanagara
Cops, 700 of them are stationed here said an official. No violence so far. Cheering from the Congress side. Silence from thr BJP side. Some even here since 5 am. Exhausted and now crowd controlling
@TOIBengaluru
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Continues inciting other male passangers to create a scene. Fails. Goes to the ladies section and tries the same. Later he says give the seat to an old man. Two men young men had occupied the mens senior citizen seat and were told nothing.
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#BTS2020
There is only spirituality . Science is just a small physical expression of that :
@SadhguruJV
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@ishafoundation
@santwana99
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Nine athletes returned to Karnataka from 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin, Germany. They clinched 13 gold and two silver medals for various events. Here are their stories -
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First they fill the bus beyond capacity. And then traffic just leaves you parked in one spot for long. No circulation of air. Sweat all around.
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#RaithaSahaaya
Name of the farmer : Theresa DSouza
Crop name : Ash pumpkins
Quantity available: 2 tonnes
Village and taluk name : Balkunje post , Mangaluru taluk, Dakshina Kannada
Phone number: +91 99022 32576
@XpressBengaluru
@AshwiniMS_TNIE
@NewIndianXpress
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#BTS2020
To prevent corruption & blackmarketing of
#COVI19
vaccines, you also must make it available to rich & powerful who want it out of turn & charge them big time. Those many vaccines must be given to those who can't afford it :
@SadhguruJV
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
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#NIRFRankings2020
Engineering (Top3)
Indian Institute Of Technology, Madras
Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi
Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Management (Top 3)
IIMA
IIMB
IIM Calcutta
@HRDMinistry
@NewIndianXpress
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Anxiety continues to grip
#NEET_JEE
aspirants. Remains largely unaddressed.
#StudentsDislikePMModi
#StudentsHatesMrModi
begins to trend.
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An unusual passanger in
@BMTC_BENGALURU
today. Shruti carried her fighter fish along with her from Mysuru. "We were not home, so we got the betta fish along." :)
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At a complaint redressal forum for domestic workers in the city who lack BPL cards, Kallamma, breaks down -- "I have no husband or house. And my BPL Card is rejected and I dont know why."
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@santwana99
@Karnataka_DIPR
@WFP
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#Science
lovers, pls note:
@iiscbangalore
open-day is on March 4 between 9am and 5pm. Raman Research Institute celebrating its platinum jubilee year, has invited the public to visit on February 28. Indian Institute of Astrophysics will hold a three-day open day from Feb 26
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#sslcresult2020
Top 6 students who got 625 on 625 are from Uttara Kannada, Tumakuru, Bengaluru , Mandya, Dakshina Kannada, Chikkamagalur
@NewIndianXpress
@XpressBengaluru
@santwana99
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