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What problems are increasing in Bengaluru?

Every civic news report geolocated to Bengaluru, classified into an open problem vocabulary, and trended as a share of the city's total coverage.

Summary

Crime is the clearest deterioration: it gained a bigger slice of the city's news (up 11.3 points), with homicide the fastest-growing specific problem (up 4.28 points). Road-safety coverage also rose, and 35.3% of it involved deaths. Bengaluru's civic strain is not just potholes.

WATCH Watch whether police and courts can slow violent crime without road safety slipping further.
Full category ledger
CategoryNews ReportedShare Change (points)Action RateFatal Rate
Crime Violence19,122+11.334.0%13.1%
Accidents Road Safety5,172+2.33.7%35.3%
Public Safety2,704+1.41.5%12.1%
Infrastructure Utilities3,053+1.11.9%1.7%
Policing Law Enforcement3,783+0.820.1%2.5%
Legal Judicial2,941+0.831.2%0.9%
Terrorism Conflict903+0.339.4%10.1%
Human Rights Social669+0.21.9%2.7%
Environment Pollution1,836+0.12.5%1.6%
Missing Persons209+0.112.0%8.6%
Labor Employment776-0.07.9%0.4%
Business Economy35+0.08.6%2.9%
Immigration Border516-0.110.9%0.4%
Education365-0.20.5%0.0%
Corruption Fraud7,135-0.315.0%0.3%
Disasters Emergencies1,431-0.80.4%28.9%
Protest Civil Unrest3,892-1.52.0%5.4%
Elections Politics6,792-4.70.5%0.2%
Public Health4,470-5.31.0%23.1%
Governance Policy31,170-5.41.4%1.2%
Rising sub-problems
ProblemNews ReportedΔpp
Homicide6852+4.28
Sexual Assault822+0.99
Suicide505+0.70
Smuggling469+0.68
Stampede354+0.67
Bomb Explosion169+0.46
Sexual Harassment485+0.43
Assault1326+0.39
Sexual Abuse198+0.39
Water Scarcity201+0.38
Receding sub-problems
ProblemNews ReportedΔpp
Disease Outbreak1047-1.76
Assembly Election523-0.99
Flood841-0.85
State Election399-0.73
Water Dispute704-0.73
Bribery583-0.63
Coverage volume by year
2026: 6,159201720266,159
Corroborated fatal events (≥3 news reports agreeing; conflicting tolls merged into a range, never summed)
Coverage MonthEvent TypeDeaths ReportedCorroborating News Reports
2021-05Disease Outbreak146–48218
2026-02Aircraft Defect2606
2023-06Train Derailment2385

96,974 pieces of news reported · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed

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