July 27: The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is in the process of selecting a private partner to help it build the Traffic Transit Management Centre (TTMC) in Hebbal, expected to improve the city’s connectivity to the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA), under a public private partnership model. The project is likely to take off next year.

Speaking to Deccan Chronicle,

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July 26: The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has reportedly hushed up an accident that occurred at a Metro Rail site in which two workers were injured. Nagin Modal, 26, was grievously injured and Tej Narayan Singh Yadav sustained injuries in the mishap that occurred on Reach 2 stretch on Magadi Road on July 23.

The injured were immediately rushed to K.C. General Hospital. The t

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July 24: Looking at the condition of roads in Bengaluru, its hard to imagine that Rs 1,000 crore has been spent on improving them annually. The potholes seem as big as ever and the roads as uneven and in need of repair as they have been for years in several parts of the city, especially in the more central areas.
The obvious conclusion that most people draw is that the money has not been well s

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"I don't want my daughter to make the same mistakes I made", says 35-year-old Selvi P, a domestic worker who married at the early age of 19 to Pazhani, who then used to work at a petrol bunk. Against her family's wishes, Selvi married the man she was determined to spend the rest of her life with.

But her happiness was short-lived as her husband soon took to alcohol and beat her up regularly. Selvi even suffered fractures due to this domestic abuse. At one point in time, she was at the brink of ending her…