Mico Layout police ask neither for vehicles nor guns; they just need more personnel

The crime rate in Mico Layout, a mostly up-market area in south-east Bangalore, has been in a state of constant fluctuation over the last five years. But the graph has only been on an upward climb in recent times. There has been a 50% rise in crime at Mico Layout in the last one year.

Meanwhile, the police are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain law and order in the area. The reason for this could be attributed to the shortage of personnel at the Mico Layout police station. According to sources, the police force there is short of 17 constables, who are desperately required for guarding the crime-prone area.

Almost six lakh students of the Bangalore University are expected to gather at the Palace Grounds on Saturday as the state government's anti-terror campaign is set to end with a grand valedictory f

Bangalore, Feb 17 : IT major Infosys Technologies on Tuesday announced that it has set up a fund `Infosys Science Foundation', for awarding outstanding achievements in various fields.

This foundation would be funded by a corpus of 210.5 million rupees, contributed by the firm''s board members and an annual grant from Infosys Technologies Limited.

The trust would honour an annual award of five million rupees to the countrymen for their exceptional contribution in the arena of physical and mathematical sciences, engineering, life science and social sciences and economics.

As part of its worldwide Intelligent Urbanisation initiative, Cisco Systems has signed up a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Karnataka to launch ‘Intelligent Bengaluru’ pilot project in the city.

Under the MoU, the project launched by the state government and networking giant will focus on global sustainable solutions for public safety and security, transportation, buildings, power distribution, energy utilization, health care, education and environment conservation.

Bangalore, Feb 14, : The Anjani Technoplast Limited (ATL) on Friday introduced an indigenously built water-jet machine with application in aerospace and defence industry here.

ATL marketing manager Sunil Sharma claimed that the water jet could cut through titanium, steel aluminium and alloys as well as composite materials.

"This is a high pressure technology. We can even cut steel up to 200 mm. We have supplied machines to various customers like titanium cutting, external steel cutting so this is a perfectly Indian machine. The first Indian manufacturers of such kinds of machines," he said.

Bangalore, Feb 14: India''s only cosmonaut, Wing Commander (retired) Rakesh Sharma flew in the Boeing-made FA-18 Super Hornet at Aero India 2009 in Bangalore on Friday.

Dressed in the pilot overhauls, Sharma (60) almost logged one-hour sortie as a part of the promotional flight programme by Boeing.

Incidentally, Boeing has bid for the Indian Air Force (IAF) medium multi-role combat aircraft deal.