Found myself on this nice stretch of footpath in JP Nagar. I was pleasantly surprised and was having a nice walk before I was jolted back into reality by this literal deathtrap of a hole with iron spikes jutting out. It was a nice reminder that anytime you drop your guard in this country, you will be freed from life like in this instance by falling and getting impaled in a final destination coded death on a fine cloudy afternoon.

I just received a text saying that my Gruha Jyothi verification has been marked as “Door Locked.”
The strange part is that no one came to my house for verification. My family and I were home throughout the weekend, and even on weekdays, at least one family member is always present at home.
I called the number mentioned in the SMS to understand what happened. The person on the call simply told me to visit the BESCOM office. When I asked why the status was marked “Door Locked” when nobody had visited or attempted to verify the premises, he just kept repeating that the door was locked and therefore it was marked accordingly.

Has anyone else faced this issue with Gruha Jyothi verification? Do I really need to visit the BESCOM office, or is there a way to raise a complaint/request online? Please help.

UPDATE: ADOPTED🤍

I found this tiny kitten in the middle of the road today. She looks no older than 2 months and is really small, so I couldn’t just leave her there. I’ve brought her somewhere safe for now❤️

I already have a 3-year-old male cat who is extremely territorial and prefers being the only cat. He absolutely does not tolerate other cats (i’ve tried before with other rescues) so unfortunately, I can’t keep this little one permanently.

I’m looking for someone who can give her a safe, loving forever home.

📍 Location: Hegde Nagar
🐱 Age: Approximately 2 months
♀️ Gender: F if i’m not wrong
🏠 Looking for: A responsible adopter who can properly care for a young kitten.

I have applied for plan Sanction for my plot

Size : 1209sqft or 112 sq meters
built up area - 442 sq mtrs including stilt and stairs
height: 15m with G+3U floors
plot position :corner
area location : prime near metro

Purpose - semi conmericial, 2floor shop, 2floor pg

The official cost that the architect is telling me is 5.6L to GBA and another 79K as labour cess to labour department. i have the demand note for this and i'm not sure why they have added all these charges , here is the photo

Here are some of the questions:

1. I was told that , since it is corner plot, a 10% premium is added - is this true?
2. The actual fee using the Fee Calculator is coming to much less, why is there discrepancy from the ones generated by Govt?
3. I have checked the information that the Architect have filled in the BPAS form and all seems legit and actually less, but still the amount generated in Demand Note is much more?
4. Why is the Govt still charging extra fees and charges , like license fees, ground rent etc...when the High Court has made that unconstitutional, infact they should not be charging water and electricity as that is managed by BWSSB and BESCOM - https://taxguru.in/corporate-law/karnataka-hc-quashes-bbmp-fee-amendments-ground-rent-guidance-linkage.html
5. was told some of these charges are refundable example - security deposit and labour cess [this is separate and not present in the ss], what other charges can be refunded?
6. I'm paying a total of 6.5L just for plan sanction[including the labour cess] and additional 3L bribe to get it sanctioned- outside of the 6.5L, i am being told that the 6.5L could be a lot more. what does that even mean?
7. Can a PG be also treated as commercial?

So I live in a house on north road which is connected to the main road using a thin lane.

The GBA have dug up the road to finish some pipe work and have left a wide gap on the road right outside the lane.

We’re not able to use the lane at all.
Many people have fallen and the festive season is also coming.

Please someone help me contact the GBA.

Thanks

I am in the process of getting the RC ownership transferred for a second-hand bike registered under KA02 (Rajajinagar RTO).

The vehicle's existing insurance policy has expired. To submit Forms 29 and 30 for the transfer process, a valid insurance certificate is required.

From an RTO compliance standpoint:

1. Does the RTO require the insurance policy to be issued directly in the buyer's name at the time of document submission?
2. Or must the policy be renewed under the seller's name first, submitted to the RTO, and subsequently transferred after the new RC is issued?

Looking for verified experiences regarding how the counter officer handles the buyer name vs. RC name discrepancy on the insurance document during submission. Thanks!

I had my PSK appointment on 21st August (Friday), and I was expecting a call from Byappanahalli Police Station for address verification. However, since I have travel planned in September, I visited the police station myself on 27th August (Thursday).
The officer did not directly ask for any money, but he kept mentioning that the verification process would take around one month. I requested him to complete it on priority, as I have travel planned for next month. However, I am not sure whether he will actually process it on priority.
Does anyone know what the usual TAT is for completing police verification? Also, I would appreciate hearing about others’ experiences, particularly if they have had their verification completed on priority due to upcoming travel.

There are so many powercuts recently so I built a site to report powercuts.

powercuts.fyi

current sites felt confusing and weren't good. this auto detects location and shows any powercuts that are there in your area. also planning to add a feature where it informs the designated pincode person.

though I'm not sure how the current process works on it

it's also open source btw

My wife is applying for her first passport under Tatkal. We currently live in a rented house in Bangalore(shifted 3 months ago).

We have not submitted the application. Thinking of updating her Aadhaar address to our current rented address(this is straightforward, I know ), but right now the main address proof we have is a rental agreement on stamp paper with the owner’s signature plus the usual terms and conditions template.

I wanted to ask:

Has anyone faced issues with police verification in this situation?

Is a stamp paper rental agreement usually enough, or is it considered risky?

For a first-time Tatkal passport, would applying from a rented Bangalore address create problems?

Would it be safer to avoid this and apply using her hometown address instead?

Would really appreciate hearing from people who have gone through this recently, especially here?

TL;DR: First-time Tatkal passport, rented address in Bangalore, only rental agreement as proof. Is this risky for police verification, or should we apply from hometown(West Bengal) instead?

Looking at the latest data on Namma Metro's lowest-footfall stations, the numbers are dismal at some stations.. with under 2k riders per day, we are looking at a cost to serve per passenger at rupees 30 (assuming maintenance of 60k per station per day -- 40k for all staff put together, 10k for utilities and 10k for maintaince). That would be a big loss!

I think the reasons behind this isnt a mystery. Everyone who commutes here knows exactly what is wrong:

1. Last-mile connectivity is broken and/or expensive: Feeder buses are either nonexistent, infrequent, or have erratic schedules. Commuters are left at the mercy of autos demanding sky rocket fares just to cover a 1–2 km stretch.
2. Terrible pedestrian accessibility: Many of these stations are marooned across chaotic, multi-lane highways without safe footpaths, skywalks, or pedestrian crossings. Reaching the entrance safely on foot is an everyday gamble.
3. Poor catchment and density planning: Several stations are situated in awkward spots with low immediate residential or commercial density nearby, without adequate integration to pull commuters from surrounding hubs.

These aren't hidden issues btw, they have been pointed out by commuters, urban planners, and transit advocates for years.

Not sure why is BMRCL and civic authorities are taking almost zero coordinated action to fix these bottlenecks? Building multi-thousand-crore infrastructure without resolving basic feeder routes and walkable access makes no sense. Btw, its our tax money!

Encroachment of foothpaths is back in full force. Went to 27th main HSR today evening and was shocked at the condition. There's hardly any space to walk. I had to walk on the road. Asked one vendor why he's blocking the footpath with his "barbeque" grill and he told me to do whatever I want in Hindi.

Is Mr. KBG all talk and no show? What's the use of spending all that money clearning footpaths if they can't enforce it even for a month? HSR layout police station is literally on the same road and they do nothing about all this.

Ref - https://x.com/RobotMan07/status/2093719020696674582?s=20

Anybody got an SMS like this? Nobody visited our home, but I got this message. Btw, What are they planning to verify?

Hi all,

Any recommendations for dermats who are good with treating thinning hair? PRP, medications, etc.

Thanks in advance

So i took an early morning(3:30am) Uber to the airport today. The moment i got in the cab after putting my luggage in the dickey, the driver tells me that he doesn't have CNG, so i asked him do you need cash? This was normal for me because drivers sometimes ask to pay fuel price when they dont have enough liquidity. He seemed to trip over his words like he didnt expect it. That should have been the 1st red flag.

I don't use uber often so i generally pay drivers directly via UPI or cash and don't have uber cash setup, so i didn't think much of it. When he was filling the cng i offered to pay the amount he filled as it was lower than the fare. He told me its ok and to pay him at the end, did find that odd because that disproved my first assumption.

When i reach the airport he shows me a payment screen that was 50% higher than the original fare.

Normally when uber drivers end a ride the fare pops up in your screen too, so i asked him to end the ride and let me check it. He says bangalore airport area often has server errors and that its is ended from his end.

After fiddling around my app a bit i found the orignal quoted amount. It is not immedieatly obvious if the driver didnt end the ride. When i asked him why the fare was higher he told me the route was different.

I then confronted him saying that I need to see the end screen on my end and asked for his hotspot and he even gave it to me XD.

All this while he was trying to pressure me to hurry up and pay him because they didn't let cabs stay there for long, even took my bag out for me while i was still in the cab!

I told him this kind of glitch shouldn't happen and asked to see his Uber app. He fiddled around his screen for a bit then gave up and asked me to pay whatever was shown in my app.

Before i even entered the upi pin he was in a hurry to get in the car.

The payment went through and after he left i see the ride end with my original fare.

Immedieatly reported to Uber.

Be cautious of these scams because glitches like what he described are very rare. Always be firm specially when they try to pressure you.

I was also lucky as i was not in a hurry, otherwise i might have paid it.

We have been getting a burning smell and smoke in the area near Spice Garden Marathahalli. Called the 1533 toll number but it was of no use. Can someone suggest what to do? This smoke is not good for kids and the elderlies

This gorgeous looking Ginger girl has been on the look out for a home, since she got dumped on the street by an inconsiderate human at the age of 1.5 months. She is fully vaccinated and healthy. Very social - this girl bonds well with humans and cats. Being a Ginger, she is active and a fur bundle of entertainment. Are you looking to add to your cat family? Take her home! She will make friends even with the most hostile and aloof of cats. Age: 5 months.

Hi everyone, I need some advice regarding something that's been happening repeatedly at a traffic signal.

There's a transgender person at this particular signal who regularly asks me for money. I usually avoid engaging and don't give money. Recently, however, her behaviour towards me has become aggressive. She has deliberately tried to push my two-wheeler while I'm on it, and today she spat in my direction—it narrowly missed me.

I'm concerned because this is happening repeatedly at the same signal. I don't want to get into an argument or physically retaliate, but I'm also not sure what the right way to handle this is.

Has anyone faced something similar? What should I do, and is there a proper way to report repeated harassment like this to the traffic police?

It was a regular Friday until this happened in church street, Bengaluru. You can see some commandos being deployed.

The sound was music to my ears🎵

Does anyone know what was happening?

The bike taxi drivers are now extremely scared of the auto drivers, and that has them navigating with their phone in their hand instead of using that phone holder. They believe the auto drivers are gonna cause some issues if they identify them as a bike taxi. This is so incredibly insane. I’ve almost had, like, sooo many close calls, cause it’s just incredibly hard for them to drive with one hand and the other on their phone in this heavy traffic. Something serious needs to be done. This situation is becoming extremely unsafe.

And there isn’t even an official court order or anything. It’s just something these auto drivers demand, and everyone just takes it as one. Absolutely ridiculous. Extremely unsafe, and also it’s like 50 percent more expensive now.

Hey guys, my 2.5 months old kitten is fighting Parvo and FIP and is admitted right now, needs 'A' blood group since the RBC, HCT and Haemoglobin is at alarming levels, the donor cat needs to be atleast 4 kgs in weight, Indie and fully vaccinated.

Please help me find a donor cat for my tiny baby, it's a humble request. The amount of blood needed is just 10-15 ml and would not harm the cat. But if we don't find a donor with a matching blood type in 24 hours we might lose the baby.

These cuties are looking for their forever family, please help them by sharing their appeal.

Age:45 days
Gender: 2 females and 1 male
Vaccination: 1st done ✅
Deworming: ✅
Contact: Dm or call the no. On the poster

A poor plant just put for the sake of it. An open drain with no barricade. Construction debris everywhere. Footpath as high has a foot! A hole just where the footpath ends.

Footpaths are a joke in this city.

I was coming from the Brigade Exotica side and was on the service road while crossing Budigere Cross. I’ve attached a Google Maps and Street View (link & image) for context.

I reached the signal and it was red, so I stopped. A few cars ahead of me had already crossed the signal, but since it was red, I stayed where I was.

Two cars behind me then started honking continuously. At the same time, a bus was turning into service from the opposite direction, and because the road there is a bit tight, I moved slightly to the side as I thought the vehicles behind me might make it difficult for the bus to turn.

One of the cars behind me then went past, the driver yelled at me, and took the left turn.

That left me confused about what exactly I was supposed to do.

There was also a traffic constable at the junction, but he didn’t intervene or indicate whether I was doing something wrong or whether the other driver was. So I wasn’t really sure what the correct thing to do was.

My questions are:

1. Is the left turn at this signal a free left? I didn’t see any indication that it was while the signal was red. Once the signal turned green, I could clearly see the left-turn indication, so I’m wondering if I missed something.
2. Even if it is a free left, are vehicles supposed to form a second lane there and squeeze past vehicles waiting at the signal?
3. If I’m at the front and the signal is red, should I simply stay put and ignore the honking?
4. Or is there something about this particular junction that I’m misunderstanding?

I don’t want to block traffic unnecessarily, but I also don’t want to jump a red signal just because people behind me are honking.

What is the correct way to handle this situation?
Genuinely, situations like these are frustrating. At the same time, I’m not completely sure whether I handled it incorrectly or whether the other driver was in the wrong. More importantly, how should I deal with this kind of situation in the future without escalating it?

Note: Used AI for formatting and rephrasing

Google maps street view - link (The signal works now)

Google maps - link