** Passion in full steam – Vijayendra Rao Chouthai

This city-based Railways employee has been juggling the rigorous task of managing stations while pursuing his love for art.

If the nearly 1,000 art pieces that Vijayendra Rao Chouthai, the station manager at Mallasandra Railway Station in Bengaluru Railway Division has churned out, it is the pencil sketch of a vintage steam loco that catapulted him to fame on Sunday.

** First ‘Janasamparka Divasa’ of police on Saturday

The first ‘Janasamparka Divasa’, a public outreach programme where citizens can walk into police stations to meet senior officers or get grievances redressed, will be held on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The police plan to hold the programme on the fourth Saturday of every month.