Big FM Bangalore RJs Harsha and Shruthi go to jail for a cause
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
As part of a silent protest, Big FM Bangalore’s popular breakfast RJs Harsha and Shruthi were jailed at Forum Mall for two days last week. Through this innovative ‘Bail the Jock’ campaign, the station aimed to create awareness amongst the public on matters of environment cleanliness and personal hygiene.
Big FM had conducted a campaign that connected with their listeners and thrashed out concerns faced by a common Bangalorean. Aptly titled ‘Bendethu Bengaluru’, this campaign addressed one major issue on air everyday. This gave an opportunity to the residents of the city to speak up and discuss common problems like potholes, bribery, traffic, and public hygiene, among others. |
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Bangalore bombs made locally
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Sunday, 03 August 2008 |
 The first leads in Friday’s serial blasts have started emerging after investigators found, defused and analysed an unexploded bomb in the posh Koramangala area of the city on Saturday morning. The bomb was found metres away from the spot where a woman was killed in one of Friday’s blasts.
Investigations by the five-member team of ballistic and explosive experts from the National Bomb Data Centre, which arrived in Bangalore on Friday night, indicate that the devices were prepared and planted intelligently. The findings, which have been accessed by HT, reveal that though the bombs were of low intensity, they had been assembled from locally available substances.
“The devices are all the same,” confirmed Bangalore Police Commissioner Shankar Mahadev Bidari.
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Another explosive device defused in Bangalore
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
Another explosive device was recovered and defused from the southern city of Bangalore late Friday night, a week after the IT
capital was rocked by serial blasts, police said on Saturday.
"It was a small and very low intensity explosive, one without any timer. The material was found late last night from Channapatna, 70 kms from here," Director General and Inspector General of police R Sri Kumar said.
It was placed in a small tin and was found by one of the locals, who informed police. A bomb squad, which was pressed into service, defused the explosive, he said.
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ICs point to Qaeda link in Surat & Bangalore incidents
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
The use of integrated circuit (IC) chips in bombs unearthed in Bangalore and Surat, and gas cylinders in car blasts at an Ahmedabad hospital, have confirmed suspicion of intelligence agencies that the attacks, though planned and executed by local
outfits, may have been inspired by an highly-organised foreign mastermind.
It is for the first time that ICs were used by terrorists as timer device in bombs here. The agencies suspect that the technology in this regard may have been imported from Indonesia or the Philippines, both of which have been at the receiving end of jihadi terror. Al Qaeda’s Indonesian associate Jemaah Islamiyah has successfully used ICs to time the bombs, and have ‘transferred the technology’ to Filipino terror outfits like the Abu Sayyaf group.
While Jemaah Islamiyah is best known as the outfit behind the Bali bombings of 2002 — which killed over 200, mostly foreign nationals — the Abu Sayyaf group’s biggest terror hit was the 2004 ferry explosion in Manila Bay that killed 116.
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Bangalore techie killed for Dowry
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
 At 1 am on Thursday, neighbours heard her cry for help. Half an hour later, they saw a car leave her house. It was only in the morning that they realized Sowmya was dead.
The incident happened at ITI Colony in Chandra Layout. Neighbours talk about it in hushed tones, and do not want their name to be dragged into 'unnecessary complications'.
On May 9, Sowmya Chandra (25) a software engineer, was a happy girl. She thought she had found an ideal partner in Avinash Bhushan (28). A graduate from Malnad Engineering College, Hassan, she worked in Bangalore for the past three years. Three months of marital life, and fate, it seems, had different plans for her.
In the wee hours of Thursday, Avinash brought Sowmya's body to a private hospital. He claimed that Sowmya had hanged herself while he tried to save her. However, Sowmya's father Chandrashekhar has a different story to tell. He says his daughter was murdered for not bringing Rs 5 lakh and 1 kg of gold, that was demanded by the groom's family.
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