The best of TOI images of August from Bengaluru

Clad in traditional outfits, 75 women bikers display the cultural diversity of the country as part of the 75th Independence Day celebrations in Bengaluru — K Sunil Prasad

Students with their faces painted in tricolour, rehearsing for the 75th Independence Day event, in front of Vidhana Soudha — K Sunil Prasad

Colourful rakhis on display in a shop at Vasantnagar during Raksha Bandhan — Chethan Shivakumar

People throng K R Market to buy flowers for the Varamahalakshmi festival. The market reopened after Covid restrictions relaxed. — Syed Asif

View of Mysore road after heavy rain in the city— Syed Asif

Commuters on Namma Metro's Purple line on the first day of the opening of services to Kengeri — Syed Asif

Covid-19 vaccination drive organised for Auto and Cab drivers by B.PAC in association with Akshaya Patra Foundation at National college grounds, Basavanagudi — Chethan Shivakumar

A school teacher has a tough task of managing offline and online classes simultaneously in one of the schools in Bengaluru after the Karnataka government announced the reopening of schools — Chethan Shivakumar

Drug addicts seen sitting on railway tracks in Bengaluru. The city saw 160 per cent more drug cases and daily drug haul worth crores of rupees during the pandemic— Syed Asif

The spot, where seven people, including the son and daughter-in-law of DMK MLA from Hosur, died after their over speeding Audi car crashed into a footpath in Koramangal— K Sunil Prasad

Students queued up for temperature checks and to use sanitiser before heading into exam halls to write Common Entrance Test (CET), in Basavanagudi — Chethan Shivakumar

Mounted police personnel during the full dress rehearsal for the 75th Independence Day celebrations.at Field Marshal Manekshaw Parade Ground— K Sunil Prasad

A group of artists from Rajasthan, living on the footpath for the past 20 years with their families at KR Puram, making Lord Krishna idols, ahead of Krishna Janmashtami — K Sunil Prasad

People line up to receive Covid-19 vaccine in front of a BBMP primary health centre, at Vasanthanagar — K Sunil Prasad

Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai visited government schools and interacted with students after the schools reopened across Karnataka for 9th, 10th and PU students, where Covid-19 positivity rate is less than 2 % — Chethan Shivakumar

Students walk through a waterlogged road to reach their school at Malleshwaram — Syed Asif

Children enjoying the 'Age of Dragons' at Garuda Mall on the eve of 75th Independence Day— Syed Asif

Fumigation drive in residential areas, a preventive measure to fight malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases during monsoon — Syed Asif