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The timing is perfect. Valentine’s Day is round the corner, and February fever has begun — lovers are going the whole hog to impress their sweethearts.

This is official, but may not be final. Bescom on Tuesday announced there will be no power in Bangalore for two hours, and in other towns for four hours.

With three new swine flu deaths being reported in Karnataka, the death toll due to the H1N1 virus in the state reached 86.

The Cox Town road overbridge (RoB) will be opened to traffic on February 5, complete with service roads, footpaths below it and a garden.

Garden city could soon become concrete city. Bangalore has lost around 50,000 trees in recent years to infrastructure development and nearly 300 more will soon go for the Metro rail project.

Six tigers have already died in Karnataka this year, compared to eight deaths each in 2008 and 2007. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) considers this `abnormal and alarming’.

Even as the Karnataka State Cricket Association is fuming over Bangalore Metro cutting into the Chinnaswamy cricket stadium premises, another silent spectator is losing land to the project.

After facing criticism for his B-word attack on chief minister B S Yeddyurappa recently, former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Thursday chose to give the CM a piece of advice.

City lights won’t shine so bright — and no longer will the model on the neon signboard smile down as you drive by at night. For, all hoardings will be switched off at 10.

The Forum of Unaided Private Engineering Colleges has asked the government to reconsider sanctioning 12 new engineering colleges because many seats are already vacant.

Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has opposed the state’s move to ban cow slaughter, terming it a hurried, impractical and hasty decision.