In a novel initiative to raise awareness about road safety and traffic rules, the Bengaluru police have started notifying companies about their employees’ traffic violations. The initiative was started about 15 days ago on an experimental basis in the east division of Bengaluru. Traffic police officials started by flagging IT company staff who rode two-wheelers along the wrong side of the road. They sent a list of violations to each company.

In a glaring concern, the sex ratio in Karnataka dropped to 929 girls to 1,000 boys as against the last year’s 947:1,000, with the reason largely attributed to the prevalence of female foeticide. Quoting government records, Health Minister Dinesh Gundurao Thursday said, “the sex ratio has come down due to the rising cases of female foeticide that thrive in the state through organised rackets comprising doctors, lab technicians, nurses and hospital managements”.