Arun Dev is an Assistant Editor with the Karnataka bureau of Hindustan Times. A journalist for over 10 years, he has written extensively on crime and politics.
Articles by Arun Dev
'Pronounced guilty by seekers of TRP': Disha Ravi
Police said Ravi, along with two other activists, created a ‘toolkit’ to spread misinformation and incite unrest as part of a global conspiracy.
Updated on Mar 14, 2021 03:35 AM IST
Arun Dev
'My autonomy was violated': Disha Ravi's statement after 28 days of arrest
"...my photographs were splashed all over the news; my actions were pronounced guilty - not in the court of law, but on flat screens by seekers of TRPs...," she wrote.
Updated on Mar 13, 2021 09:52 PM IST
Arun Dev , Bengaluru
7,064 Karnataka villages don’t have a burial ground, says govt
Karnataka government says every district has been told to convert government land into burial grounds.
Published on Mar 13, 2021 12:50 PM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Bodies donated, buried by road as villages in Karnataka lack burial grounds
7,064 Karnataka villages don’t have a burial ground, says govt
Updated on Mar 13, 2021 01:43 PM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Zomato to cover medical bills of woman, legal cost of accused delivery person
Bengaluru: Deepinder Goyal, co-founder of online food aggregator Zomato, on Friday said the company will cover the medical bills of Hitesha Chandranee, who claimed she was attacked by a delivery person from the company
Published on Mar 13, 2021 12:01 AM IST
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Zomato to pay medical bills of woman who accused delivery executive of assault
The company is also taking care of the legal cost of Kamaraj, the executive, who has denied the charges and accused Chandranee of assaulting him
Updated on Mar 12, 2021 01:59 PM IST
Arun Dev
Woman injured herself: Zomato delivery person on assault case
Bengaluru: A Zomato delivery person who was booked for allegedly punching a woman, on Thursday claimed that she injured herself after accidentally hitting her face with her ring
Published on Mar 11, 2021 11:52 PM IST
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Karnataka cops may soon get access to facial tech
While the project has been in the pipeline for three years, Bengaluru Police officials said the latest funding announcement by the state government was a crucial development.
Published on Mar 11, 2021 11:38 PM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
'City of future!' Infosys' Nandan Nilekani on what makes Bengaluru click
Nilekani said that the work from home system is here to stay as the city sees a new phase of change.
Updated on Mar 11, 2021 11:00 PM IST
Arun Dev
Yediyurappa announces ₹7,800 crore for Bengaluru, mostly for ongoing projects
During his budget speech, CM Yediyurappa announced the construction of Bengaluru Signature Business next to Kempegowda International Airport. The agency responsible had listed this project on their website in 2018 itself
Updated on Mar 08, 2021 07:00 PM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
100 years apart, a tale of Bengaluru's two pandemics
Much like the plague of 1898, experts say the Covid pandemic will change the DNA of Bengaluru
_1615174516070_1615174528550.jpg "A view of Bangalore during the 1890s (left); MG Road in Bengaluru wears a deserted look during the lockdown imposed due to Covid-19 on July 5, 2020(WikimediaCommons/PTI)")
Updated on Mar 08, 2021 09:06 AM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Bengaluru’s BBMP said no potholes on 74 roads. Court ordered survey finds 437
The report said of the 5,435 responses from citizens and survey, 437 cases were related to potholes and bad roads. The rest 4,998 cases were related to footpaths
Published on Mar 06, 2021 10:30 AM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Complainant fails to join probe against Karnataka ex-minister Ramesh Jarkiholi
A police officer said that the complainant's status as witness in the case of alleged sexual exploitation against former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi is also unclear.
Published on Mar 04, 2021 11:01 PM IST
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Once a source of drinking water, Bengaluru river now filled with froth, stench
The degradation of Vrishabhavathi river began around 50 years ago when industrial areas began cropping up along the catchment areas of the river – in Peenya, Yeshwanthpura, Kumbalagou and so on.
Updated on Mar 03, 2021 07:09 PM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Karnataka HC refuses to stay proceedings against Kangana Ranaut
Ranaut had moved the high court, seeking to quash the First Information Report filed against her by the Tumkuru police here last year. The court has posted the matter for hearing on March 18
Published on Mar 02, 2021 03:33 PM IST
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Karnataka man found alive just before autopsy, is responding to treatment
A private hospital in Belagavi declared Shankar Gombi brain dead after keeping him under two-day observation and asked his family to take his body after he met with an accident in Mahalingapur on February 27
Updated on Mar 02, 2021 04:19 PM IST
Arun Dev, Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Only 22% Covid-19 vaccination amid glitches on Day 1 in Bengaluru
BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad, said that the app and portal were unable to handle the traffic and the glitches needed to be fixed at the earliest
Updated on Mar 02, 2021 11:06 AM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Manual scavenging continues to mar Karnataka as conviction stays zero
The deaths of 30-year-old Lal Ahmed and 25-year-old Rasheed Ahmed in north Karnataka’s Kalburgi on January 26 were the latest in the list of people who died because of manual scavenging.
Updated on Feb 27, 2021 03:06 PM IST
Arun Dev , Bengaluru, Hindustan Times
Prime accused in Karnataka quarry blast case arrested in Tamil Nadu
GS Nagaraja, the accused, who is also a local leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, had been on the run since the blast
Published on Feb 25, 2021 12:57 PM IST
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WhatsApp used to coordinate riots in Bengaluru's DJ Halli: NIA charge sheet
A WhatsApp group comprising more than 100 members had instigated people to assemble in front of KG Halli and DJ Halli police stations
Updated on Feb 25, 2021 11:33 AM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Karnataka puts on hold mandatory RT-PCR rule for commuters from Kerala
The interdependence between Kerala’s Kasaragod and Dakshina Kannada’s district headquarters Mangaluru has fuelled resistance to travel restrictions.
Published on Feb 24, 2021 06:44 PM IST
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Panic over crackdown on illegal explosives led to Chikkaballapur blast
The Karnataka Police had begun a state-wide crackdown on illegal explosives after a blast in Shivamogga, chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s home constituency
Updated on Feb 24, 2021 09:05 AM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
‘Didn't know what was in bag’: Driver who transported explosives before blast
Villagers felt the vibrations from the explosion even a kilometre away
Published on Feb 24, 2021 07:25 AM IST
Arun Dev , Bengaluru
‘My trust in judiciary has increased’, says Disha Ravi’s mother
Disha Ravi was arrested by the Delhi police from her residence in Bengaluru on February 13, following an FIR filed on February 4 charging her with sedition among other things.
Published on Feb 23, 2021 06:34 PM IST
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6 die in dynamite blast in Karnataka; second such incident in a month
The minister in charge of the district said the explosives belonged to a quarry that was closed down on February 7 for not storing explosives properly and not having an engineer at the site
Updated on Feb 23, 2021 11:25 AM IST
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25,000 private school teachers, others to protest 30% fee cut in Karnataka
As Karnataka government has decided not to reverse its decision to impose a 30% cut on tuition fees, more than 25,000 teachers, non-teaching staff and management members from several private schools in the state will take out a rally in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
Published on Feb 22, 2021 01:34 PM IST
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Dark web, drugs and bitcoins send Bengaluru police into a tizzy
Bengaluru police opened a bitcoin account recently and told the accused to transfer his bitcoin to the account because it had to seize the cryptocurrency.
Published on Feb 22, 2021 09:06 AM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru
Karnataka makes RT-PCR test mandatory for those arriving from Maharashtra
The Karnataka government had introduced similar travel restrictions on those arriving from Kerala after two Covid-19 clusters were reported in Bengaluru city earlier this week.
Published on Feb 20, 2021 05:26 PM IST
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Organisers of PFI event booked after minister takes offence to Ram Mandir remark
PFI general secretary Anis Ahmed appealed to the people not to donate money for the temple at the rally.
Published on Feb 20, 2021 04:56 PM IST
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Karnataka cops put ink away as fingerprints go hi-tech
More than 1,000 fingerprint scanners and proprietary software have been deployed at all police stations across Karnataka.
Published on Feb 20, 2021 10:57 AM IST
Arun Dev , Hindustan Times, Bengaluru