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In a city as linguistically diverse as Bengaluru, a distress call doesn’t always come in a language the listener understands. On Wednesday, the Bengaluru police rolled out a first-of-its-kind multilingual upgrade to the Namma 112 emergency response system, designed to ensure that cries for help are no longer lost in translation. Now, we are the first police force in the country to interact in more than 10 languages,” he said at a press conference Wednesday.
The Cubbon Park Traffic Police have registered a case against Ricky Rai, son of a former underworld operative Muthappa Rai, for allegedly using a fake ‘fancy’ registration number plate on his high-end Lamborghini Huracán car that was seized for performing dangerous stunts on M. Investigations revealed that Ricky Rai had purchased the Lamborghini Huracán, originally registered in Delhi (DL 1 CT 1515), but had not completed its re-registration in Karnataka, as mandated by law.
The collective outlay for the five corporations is estimated at Rs 21,000 crore. This marks a historic departure from the previous unified budget of the now-defunct Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) , which stood at Rs 19,927 crore for 2025-26.
The hoteliers of Shivamogga town are experiencing a shortage in the supply of commercial gas cylinders, owing to the conflict in West Asia between Israel and US on one side and Iran on the other. A restaurant in central Bengaluru restricted its menu to tea and coffee owing to disruption in LPG supply and shortage in Bengaluru, on March 10, 2026.
