Travel blogger’s post on Bengaluru gridlock goes viral, city shares its traffic trauma
Bengaluru, Jul 21 (PTI): A travel blogger’s viral post on Bengaluru’s infamous traffic has struck a chord online, prompting a flood of responses from residents sharing their own nightmare tales of being gridlocked in the city.
From missed flights to hours-long commutes for just a few kilometres, the post has reopened a collective wound—reminding many that in Bengaluru, getting stuck in traffic isn’t the exception, it’s the routine.
Posting a video of a jam-packed road ahead of her on her Instagram account (@travel_foodie_gals) four days ago, a travel blogger joked that her friend—whom she had dropped off at the Bengaluru airport—had already reached Dubai, while she was still stuck in traffic.
By July 20, the post had gone viral, triggering an avalanche of comments from people sharing their own traffic "horror stories".
Narrating a similar experience, Vandana U (@vandana.uliyaa) wrote: “Once, while traveling from Male, I called my friend just after completing check-in. She started from her place around the same time. I landed in Bangalore, collected my bags, and stepped out… only to find out she was still stuck in traffic.”
Another user, @purvi_spammmm, said she had faced something similar: “My parents dropped me at the airport, and they reached home at the same time I landed in Delhi.”
Shilpa Sarkar Majumdar added that it takes her just two hours by air to reach her hometown, Port Blair, from Bengaluru.
“It’s traumatic that it takes the same amount of time to get from the airport to Koramangala,” she wrote.
Rini Rohilla (@rinirohilla) chimed in from Delhi, saying the situation isn't much better there. “I once dropped my sister-in-law at the Delhi airport and headed home. She landed in Chennai at the same time I reached my house.”
User @chauhan_dikshya shared, “I missed my flight twice while travelling from Electronic City to the airport. Now I’m so paranoid, I reach the airport five hours early.”
Vignesh (@baligavignesh) agreed that this isn’t just a Bengaluru problem. “Story of all big cities. The inter-office transport bus started at 6.30 pm and reached another office at 7.10 pm—just 1.9 km away. It took a few of us only 20 minutes to walk there. This is in Hyderabad,” he wrote.
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Bangladesh court sentences Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in corruption cases
Dhaka (PTI): A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in two separate corruption cases related to alleged irregularities in allocations of land in a government housing project.
Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-4 Judge Rabiul Alam handed down the verdicts, sentencing Hasina to a total of 10 years’ imprisonment — five years in each case, state-run BSS news agency reported.
The court sentenced 78-year-old Hasina, her nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq, and her nieces, Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq, and others in the cases over alleged irregularities in the allocation of plots under the Rajuk New Town Project in Purbachol.
The judgment was pronounced at around 12.30 pm.
Tulip Siddiq was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment — two years in each case — while Radwan Mujib Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq were each sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment in both cases.
Rajuk member Mohammad Khurshid Alam, the only accused to surrender before the court, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in each case, totalling two years.
The court also fined all convicted persons Tk1 lakh each and ordered them to serve an additional six months in prison in default of payment.
Hasina has been living in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the face of the massive protests. She was earlier declared a fugitive by the court.
The cases were filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over alleged abuse of power in the allocation of two 10-katha plots.
According to the prosecution, the accused manipulated the allocation process and violated existing rules and regulations of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
