A sampling of what the briefs include: reports on increasing fatalities on Bellary road, politicians violating rules on declaring their assets, an old-style cinema re-opening, a Yelahanka MLA’s plan to revamp his constituency in a year, a former national cyclist who has become a daily wage worker and so forth.

• Bengaluru news in brief: Apr 15 – 21
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers have a number of reports from parliamentary elections to former hockey player appointed as CEO of cricket association and so on.
• Bengaluru news in brief: Apr 8 – 14
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers have a number of reports on the elections to India’s Ajlan Shan hockey championship victory.
• Bengaluru news in brief: Apr 1 – 7
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers have a number of reports from students selling their MD seats for money to wives canvassing for their husbands for the election and so on.
• Bengaluru news in brief: Mar 25 – 31
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers have a number of reports from RMS office in central railway station in Majestic working without doors to live worms pouring out of water supplied by BWSSB and so on.
• Bengaluru news in brief: Mar 18 – 24
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers have a number of reports from the High Court setting up a committee to look into irregularities by a retired judge to elections creating a demand for astrologers and so on.
• Week’s news in brief: Mar 11 – 17
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers have a number of reports from Pizza Ajjis starting an organisation to make women self reliant to the government planning ‘parks’ near BIA.
• Week’s news in brief: Mar 4 – 10
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers have a number of reports from load shedding and its aftermath to Bangaloreans getting a chance to elect their mayor directly and so on.
• Week’s news in brief: Feb 25 – Mar 03
  This week’s scan of Kannada newspapers has a number of reports from ‘holy water’ gushing from the pillar of a mosque to Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat feeling the heat of global recession.
• Week’s news in brief: Feb 13 – 24
  Our weekly scan of Bengaluru’s Kannada dailies includes reports on how Wipro is converting waste food from its canteen into cooking gas to a robot that destroys cancer without surgery at HCG Cancer Institute.
• Week’s news in brief: Feb 06 – 12
  Our weekly scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on companies in Bangalore are looking to cut costs by using buses instead of cabs to BMTC losing money on its Volvo buses.
• Week’s news in brief: Jan 30 – Feb 5
  Our weekly scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on city colleges banning junk food to BBMP planning skywalks with escalators.
• Week’s news in brief: Jan 23 – 29
  Our weekly scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on government considering two city corporations to how Parappana Agrahara central jail in Bangalore is turning into a safe place to hatch plans for criminal activities.
• Week’s news in brief: Jan 16 – 22
  Our weekly scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on BDA planning to develop 12 lakes to BBMP plans for flyovers and underpasses.
• Week’s news in brief: Jan 09 – 15
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from Chief minister feeling the heat of Bangalore’s traffic jam to an IGP officer fined for traffic violation and so on.
• Week’s news in brief: Jan 02 – 08
  This week’s scan of Bengaluru’s Kannada dailies includes reports on the BBMP’s stand-in commissioner keeping employees on their feet and RTI-filing citizens being prevented from entering Vidhana Soudha.
• Week’s news in brief: Dec 26 – Jan 01
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports like plans for a memorial to a dead historical tree at Lalbagh, while 320 trees in Sheshadri road get axed.
• Week’s news in brief: Dec 19 – 25
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports like the Metro vs. Mono conflict.
• Week’s news in brief: Dec 12 – 18
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from government thinking of dropping the plan of high speed rail to BIA to unused AC bus shelters.
• Week’s news in brief: Dec 05 – 11
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes news on the government plans to strengthen the ATC, the Vidhana Soudha being short of security personnel, SIM cards available without check and Bangalore’s population that may exceed one crore within a couple of years!
• Week’s news in brief: Nov 28 – Dec 04
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on the police department proposing to change syllabus of sub-inspectors’ training after 38 years to scams in the BBMP waste disposal and more.
• Week’s news in brief: Nov 21 – 27
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports of State government seeking NRI help to develop temples and dengue fever deaths returning.
• Week’s news in brief: Nov 14 – 20
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports of lakhs of farmers participating in the Krishi Mela to BMTC ‘forcing’the common man to pay more for bus transport.
• Week’s news in brief: Nov 07- 13
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from farmers’ getting an opportunity to tour China to phataphat houses and quick cinemas.
• Week’s news in brief: Oct 31- Nov 06
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on increasing prices of onion and government bungalow Anugruha falling from politicians’ grace due to Vastu Dosha.
• Week’s news in brief: Oct 24-30
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from Byappanahalli police station making way for Metro rail works to return of pay and park rule in 37 streets.
• Week’s news in brief: Oct 17-23
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on acid attacks on the city’s women and farmers protesting government’s decision to levy entry tax in state highways.
• Week’s news in brief: Oct 10-16
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on a high tech business park near Devanahalli, Karnataka losing an SEZ for Aerospace Engineering to Andhra Pradesh, and more.
• Week’s news in brief: Oct 03-09
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from borewell water contamination to terror training in the city.
• Week’s news in brief: Sep 26-Oct 02
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from Dasara to big retailers like ITC, Big Bazaar trying their hands in pushing carts.
• Week’s news in brief: Sep 19-Sep 25
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from Bangalore University passing students who returned blank answer sheets in exams to a Parliamentary committee expressing dissatisfaction over Bangalore International Airport.
• Week’s news in brief: Sep 12-Sep 18
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports from the government announcing a ‘probe’ into Bangalore International Airport’s capacity issues and more delays in long-pending flyover projects.
• Week’s news in brief: Sep 05-Sep 11
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from high suicide rates in Bangalore to mobile jammers failing to work in jails.
• Week’s news in brief: Aug 29-Sep 04
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from rain playing havoc to prisoners repairing wheelchairs as community service.
• Week’s news in brief: Aug 22-28
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports a retired lady teacher being robbed of 2.2 acres of her land to the BDA confiscating assets worth Rs.300 crores in last six months..
• Week’s news in brief: Aug 15-21
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on the state pollution control board issuing notices to errant factories and hospitals, car users spending half the day on roads and more..
• Week’s news in brief: Aug 8-14
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes reports on techies looking for alternative jobs to IT and BT to rave parties under the police scanner.
• Week’s news in brief: Aug 1-7
  This week’s scan of Bangalore’s Kannada dailies includes a number of reports from VIP’s rush to Akka Sammelana to be held in Chicago to cases against 1,500 officials including IAS and IPS officers for providing fake caste certificates.
• Week’s news in brief: 11-16 July
  Controversies erupting at Bangalore University to increasing fatalities on Bellary road (new airport) and more.
• Week’s news in brief: 4-10 July
  The High Court’s notice on holding city council elections to Togalugombe dolls at the Chitra Kala Parishad and more.
• Week’s news in brief: 27 June – 3 July
  Politicians violating rules on declaring their assets to BBMP elections and more..
• Week’s news in brief: 20-26 June
  MLAs wanting an expanded BBMP council to a former national cyclist who has become a daily wage worker.
• Week’s news in brief: 13-19 June
  Citizens acting to save lakes and child trafficking at Majestic to the city’s unsafe government-run shopping complexes.
• Week’s news in brief: 6-12 June
  Waste dumping to a old-style cinema re-opening and more.
• Week’s news in brief: May 30 – Jun 5
  What the newly elected MLAs are upto, to school admissions, the impact of recent rains, and school timings.
• Week’s news in brief: May 23-29
  BBMP objecting to private no-parking signboards, disappearing sparrows, Malleswaram ‘blunderpass’, students riding motorbikes to schools and more.
• Week’s news in brief: May 16-22
  Hooch smugglers, a government school demolition for road-widening, and more.
• Week’s news in brief: May 9-15
  Polling booths in the aftermath of the elections, to a new land scandal involving sub-registrars.
• Week’s news in brief: May 1-8
  Citizen Matters starts a special series to bring select city news from Kannada dailies, summarised for you. This scan runs from May 1-8. .

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