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BBMP Election Result: BJP have won 111 Seats keeping Congress (INC) (65 seats) and JD (s) (15 Seats) behind. BJP

BBMP Election Result: BJP have wont 98 Seats while Congress (INC) have won 45 seats. JD has grabbed 12 seats

The sister-city project between Bangalore and San Francisco is set to take off. The Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsoms, and 50 delegates from that city will visit Bangalore from November 29 – December 3, 2009.The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will play host. The Mayor and his team will be welcomed by chief minister BS Yeddyurappa here. In 2008, the then administrator of the BBMP and Mayor of San Francisco signed a memorandum of understanding to engage in a partnership to enhance ec…

The Bangalore International Airport (BIA) police are searching for the kingpin of a fake passport racket, following the arrest of a woman and two men at the airport on Saturday.Police identified the man as Shamsuddin from Kasargod. BIA police had arrested Prema alias Saraswathi (21) from Madikeri, while she was about to board a Dubai flight. Though her arrest was claimed to be in connection with human trafficking, it was learnt that the police were aware of the developments as early …

Public spaces, according to veteran artist SG Vasudev, are where people and artists congregate. "It is important to ensure that public spaces are used properly," he says.It is difficult not to ask Vasudev the obvious. How would he describe the paintings that dominate the city walls nowadays?"Bangalore is an urban, modern city. These paintings do not depict that," he says. He says painting walls, per se, is a good idea. But, before that, there is a need to clean th…