Supriya Kurane

Dec 1, 2023 | zawya.com | Nallur Sethuraman |Euan Rocha |Supriya Kurane |Ashna Teresa Britto |Kashish Tandon

Fifteen schools in India's tech hub of Bengaluru cancelled classes on Friday in response to emailed bomb threats, evacuating the premises as police and bomb detection squads launched search efforts. But the emails appeared to be a hoax, said B Dayananda, the top police officer in the city, also known as "India's Silicon Valley", since it is home to multinationals such as Amazon , Alphabet's Google and Infosys.