The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike will assign a Prahari vehicle for each zone to monitor and pull down unauthorised BBMP Chief Civic Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath on Tuesday said that along with the Police Department, the BBMP will roll out a Standard Operating Procedure to control the advent of unauthorised flex banners, after a meeting with the police. This comes …
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Four protesters who were jailed for writing anti-police graffiti in chalk on a temporary barricade near a Seattle police precinct have been awarded nearly $700,000 after a federal court jury decided their civil rights were violated. “And what the evidence showed was that it was animus towards Black Lives Matter protesters that motivated the arrests and jailing of the plaintiffs.” …
Addressing the issue of stray dog menace, the newly elected mayor Kuldeep Kumar Dhalor on Friday said a plan to tackle the situation would be chalked out soon. “City residents will get relief from stray dogs’ menace. Kumar said, “The municipal corporation was lacking vehicles to pick up stray dogs and sterilise them but now we have a total of …