stephen ranjit

[Bengaluru NavaNirmana Party (BNP) @NammaBNP]

10 years. Still waiting for the Pink Line. How much longer should Bengaluru wait for a Metro line that was promised years ago?

#bnp #pinklinemetro #delay #publicinfrastructure

[Bengaluru NavaNirmana Party (BNP) @NammaBNP]

Bad roads are not just an inconvenience. They can cost lives.

#badroad #deathtrap #inconvinience #fatal #accountability

[T-Rex @T_RexRoars]

India is not for Tesla

[Yasir Mushtaq @path2shah]

#Warning #Graphics

Businessman and Congress Leader Shot Dead in Udupi

Udupi,Karnataka

Businessman and local #Congress leader David D’Souza (55) was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Mudarangadi town of #Udupi district on Friday.

The incident occurred around 3 p.m. near St. Francis Xavier Church, close to D’Souza’s office. Police said two men arrived on a motorcycle and opened fire at close range as D’Souza was about to step into his vehicle. Witnesses reported that three rounds were fired ,one bullet struck him on the forehead. He collapsed instantly and died on the spot. The attackers fled immediately, leaving the town in shock.

Police teams rushed to the scene, cordoned off the area, and deployed Scene of Crime Officers (SOCO) along with a dog squad to collect forensic evidence.Police are probing the motive behind the killing, which remains unclear.

D’Souza, a former Mudarangadi Gram Panchayat president and prominent businessman in the area, was a well-known figure in local politics. Police have formed a special team to track down the assailants.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.

New Delhi, 24 July 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.

The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.

Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.

BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.

The order is illegal on at least four grounds.

1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.

2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.

3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.

4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.

The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.

IFF demands that the Government of India:

1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.

We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.

[Himanshu Prakash @hprakash123]

I couldn’t sleep without expressing this.
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
#संसद_मार्च

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

The main accused in today’s assault on @GBA_office officers in Shivajinagar, Basavaraj Padukote, has been arrested within 10 hours. He had switched off his phone and gone into hiding, but the police formed multiple teams, tracked him down, and arrested him while he was attempting to escape.

My sincere thanks to the police @BlrCityPolice for their swift and determined action.

ಇಂದು ಶಿವಾಜಿನಗರದಲ್ಲಿ ಜಿಬಿಎ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ನಡೆದ ಹಲ್ಲೆ ಪ್ರಕರಣದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಆರೋಪಿ ಬಸವರಾಜ್ ಪಡುಕೋಟೆ ಯನ್ನು ಕೇವಲ 10 ಗಂಟೆಗಳೊಳಗೆ ಬಂಧಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಫೋನ್‌ನ್ನು ಸ್ವಿಚ್ ಆಫ್ ಮಾಡಿ ತಲೆಮರೆಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದ ಆತನನ್ನು ಪತ್ತೆಹಚ್ಚಲು ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಹಲವು ತಂಡಗಳನ್ನು ರಚಿಸಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದು, ಪರಾರಿಯಾಗಲು ಯತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ವೇಳೆ ಬಂಧಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ತ್ವರಿತ ಹಾಗೂ ದೃಢವಾದ ಕ್ರಮ ಕೈಗೊಂಡ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಹೃತ್ಪೂರ್ವಕ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.

[BHARATEEYARU - TejaVeera Yodhas @shwetha98818920]

ORR in front of salarpuria techparks this is the crowd, where 4500 buses which has been approved by central ? Are they hatching eggs in goadown ? It's useless to talk on traffic congestion unless you give us better public transportation. This scenario is same across Bangalore , after hours of working this is the worst slog one has to go through in this dirty city and we have fake organizations who talks about public transportation for hours together @blrcitytraffic @srinualavilli @byrathi_suresh @osd_cmkarnataka @CMofKarnataka @DKShivakumar @Tejasvi_Surya

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

ಉನ್ನತ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ ಅವಕಾಶಗಳು ಮೊಟುಕುಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಎದುರಾಗಿರುವ ತೀವ್ರ ಪೈಪೋಟಿ, ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಒತ್ತಡ, ಅನಿಶ್ಚಿತತೆಯು ನಮ್ಮ ಯುವಜನರ ಭವಿಷ್ಯವನ್ನು ಸಂಕಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಲುಕಿಸಿದೆ. ಈಗ ಪರೀಕ್ಷಾ ಅಕ್ರಮಗಳು ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಯಾಗಿ ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಆತಂಕ ಉಂಟುವಾಡಿದೆ.

ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿಯುತ ಸ್ಥಾನದಲ್ಲಿರುವವರು ಯುವಜನರ ಸಂಕಷ್ಟಗಳಿಗೆ ಸ್ಪಂದಿಸಬೇಕು. ಅದು ಬಿಟ್ಟು, ಸರ್ಕಾರವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸುವವರನ್ನೇ ಹೊಣೆಗಾರರನ್ನಾಗಿಸುವುದು ಸರಿಯಲ್ಲ. ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸುವುದು ಪ್ರಜಾಪ್ರಭುತ್ವದ ಹಕ್ಕು, ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ. ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಅರಿಯುವುದು ಪರಿಹಾರದ ಮೊದಲ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ.

ಯುವಜನತೆ ಜಂತರ್ ಮಂತರ್‌ನಿಂದ ಸಂಸತ್ತಿನವರೆಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಧ್ವನಿಯನ್ನು ಎತ್ತುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗ, ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರೂ ಶಾಂತಯುತ ಹಾಗೂ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿಯುವತಾಗಿ ವರ್ತಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ನಾನು ಕೋರುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಯುವಜನರ ಧ್ವನಿಗೆ ಮನ್ನಣೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಗ ಪ್ರಜಾಪ್ರಭುತ್ವವು ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಸದೃಢಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ.

#YouthVoice #Democracy #Accountability #StudentsMatter

[Sandeep Parswanath @sarpame]

Is this allowed @blrcitytraffic ? @krishnabgowda law should be the same for all Alva! This must be cleared and #FreetheFootpath must be made a success

[Karnataka Portfolio @karnatakaportf]

BMTC Breaks Down, Thar Steps Up Peak Bengaluru Moment!

A unique scene unfolded in Bengaluru after a BMTC bus broke down in the middle of the road, leading to heavy traffic congestion. Instead of waiting for recovery vehicles, a man stepped in with his Mahindra Thar and towed the stranded BMTC bus to help clear the road. The quick-thinking act helped ease the traffic and drew the attention of many commuters, who were surprised to see an SUV pulling a city bus through one of Bengaluru's busiest stretches.Only in Bengaluru can you witness a Mahindra Thar rescuing a broken-down BMTC bus to get traffic moving again!

#PeakBengaluru #Bengaluru #bangalore #Marathahalli #BMTC
@BMTC_BENGALURU @BlrCityPolice @blrcitytraffic @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic @alokkumar6994 @DgpKarnataka @CMofKarnataka @KarnatakaCops @Lolita_TNIE @ChristinMP_

[Arshad @arshadfeeroz]

Dear @krishnabgowda,

A solid waste facility in Hennur, near Sparsh Hospital and the nearby tech park, is burning waste almost every day. The smoke and smell are affecting residents, hospital visitors, and employees in the area.

Requesting your immediate intervention to stop the open burning and ensure this plant is moved somewhere else.

Video attached.

#Hennur #Bengaluru #AirPollution

[Rahul Kolle @rahulkolle]

The evicted street vendors are back in full swing on Basveshwarnagar main road.

Seems to be a repeating theme on all major arterial roads.

Flex banners are back too!

My hope and enthusiasm for @krishnabgowda's drive is slowly fading.

@GBA_office @BWCCofficial @GBAChiefComm

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

Our city. Our responsibility.

Spot an abandoned vehicle? Report it on the BTP ASTraM App.

Help us keep Bengaluru’s roads and footpaths clear.
#ReportAbandonedVehicles
#ReclaimOurStreets
#CivicAction

[Potholes Janta Party @pjp_ind]

DAY 22– NO ACTION. STILL HELL.
Hoodi railway underpass parallel to Kodigehalli: 100 meters = 1 HOUR.

Illegal encroachments killed the footpath, pothole craters swallow bikes, garbage rots on both sides. This is an accident zone, not a road. Thousands use this 100-200m lifeline to workspace daily, and locals have flagged the same craters and encroached footpaths for years.@krishnabgowda @DKShivakumar @GBA_office @ChristinMP_ @MALimbavali @GBAChiefComm @INCKarnataka @BAFBLR WAKE UP. Clear encroachments. Fill craters. Lift garbage. NOW.

#Bengaluru #Hoodi #Kodigehalli #SaveWhitefield

[ಸನಾತನ (सनातन) @sanatan_kannada]

Take action now before a preventable tragedy claims innocent lives.

@krishnabgowda @GBAChiefComm

#NammaBengaluru

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

A better Bengaluru isn’t built by the government alone, it’s built together with its citizens.

If you notice an abandoned vehicle in your neighbourhood, we request you to report it instantly through the BTP ASTraM app.

#GBA #NammaBengaluru

ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಒಂದೇ ಸಮೃದ್ಧ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರನ್ನು ಏಕಾಂಗಿಯಾಗಿ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣ ಮಾಡಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ಇದು ನಾಗರಿಕರೊಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾದ ಮಹತ್ಕಾರ್ಯ.

ನಿಮ್ಮ ನೆರೆಹೊರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಲೀಕರಿಲ್ಲದ ಅನಾಥ ವಾಹನಗಳನ್ನು ಕಂಡರೆ ತಕ್ಷಣವೇ, ಈ BTP ASTraM app ಮೂಲಕ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ನೀಡುವಂತೆ ಈ ಮೂಲಕ ಮನವಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇವೆ.