‘Ragnarok or Dasara, the power of Good remains’: Marvel wishes fans Happy Dasara

Dasara

Marvel India's social media page had a post showing Thor and Hulk visiting Dasara celebrations. 

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Imagine Thor and Hulk visiting Dasara celebrations in Mysuru. That is exactly what Marvel India's social media page has done with a post showing Thor and Hulk visiting Dasara celebrations.  "Whether its Ragnarok or Dasara, the power of Good remains! Dasara Habada Subhashayagalu", Marvel India's official social media account posted on Tuesday wishing its fans a Happy Dasara. Whether its Ragnarok or Dasara, the power of Good remains! Dasara Habada Subhashayagalu.#VijayaDashami #HappyDussehra2019 #MysuruDasara2019 pic.twitter.com/c2wDZYGYMo — Marvel India (@Marvel_India) October 8, 2019 The post was shared in all of Marvel's social media handles and users, particularly from Karnataka, responded to Marvel's post showing Thor and Hulk standing in front of the Mysuru Palace. Wow this is Mysore Palace, my City. Happy Vijaya Dashmi — Supriya (@D_Supriya) October 8, 2019 Wow! Thanks a lot for your wishes in Kannada. Hope you'll soon release your movies in Kannada language too. — ನಾರಾಯಣಭರತ್ (@ArasuBharath) October 8, 2019 The post comes after the Karnataka government earlier invoked Avengers: Endgame in an advertisement to woo visitors for the Mysuru Dasara celebrations. The ad, which was published on the front page of newspapers in the state read,  "A shapeshifting demon, an angry goddess, The Avengers Endgame retold. You don't want to miss this, do you?"   Read : K’taka govt ad cites ‘Avengers: Endgame’ to bring in more visitors for Mysuru Dasara This is not the first time Marvel is highlighting Indian festivals through characters from the Avengers series. Earlier, Marvel India shared on its social media handles a photo of Hulk, with neriya mundu draped over his shoulder, sitting ready to gorge on delicious looking sadhya set on a banana leaf. Read: When the Hulk had Onam sadhya: Marvel wishes fans on the harvest festival The superhero film Avengers: Endgame released earlier this year after an extensive marketing campaign. It was the finale in a story told through a series of 22 films and broke box office records including becoming the highest grossing film of all-time by overtaking the 2009 film Avatar.

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Two bike taxi drivers attacked and robbed in separate incidents in Bengaluru

Crime

Both incidents occurred in the early hours of Monday morning near Parappana Agrahara in the city.

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A 37-year-old bike taxi driver working with Rapido was abducted and robbed by three men when the rider went to pick up one of them posing as a customer in Bengaluru. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday morning at 12:30 am when Dhaneshwar Bey received a ride alert near Kudlu Gate off Hosur Road. When Dhaneshwar went to the location given by the app, a man allegedly slashed his neck with a knife. He took two mobile phones, a wallet containing cash of Rs 1200, credit and debit cards, and a power bank. He was then forced to go to an isolated spot where two of the attacker's associates were waiting. The trio allegedly beat up Dhaneshwar demanding the PIN of his ATM card and withdrew Rs 500 from his card after he gave the PIN. They even forced Dhaneshwar to transfer Rs 160 by Google Pay before the attacker repeatedly stabbed Dhaneshwar on his thigh demanding more money. Eventually, Dhaneshwar managed to run towards a house, jump over the compound wall and hide inside, reported the Times of India. After waiting for a while, Dhaneshwar stepped out and walked till the main road till he came across a police team. He is now receiving treatment at a private hospital.  In another incident that took place at 2:45 am on Monday morning, another Rapido driver Amal Singh, 27, was robbed after he was threatened with a knife in a similar manner by three men. Amal received a ride alert from the app near Parappana Agrahara but when he reached the pickup point, three armed men took away his mobile phone, wallet containing credit and debit cards, copies of Aadhaar and PAN card, Rs 200 and the jacket he was wearing, reported The Hindu. Police suspect both crimes were carried out by the same trio and are investigating the incidents.

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Biotech Innovation Organization CEO Jim Greenwood will leave the company after 15 years.

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Second incident of 'healthy' tiger killing villager in Karnataka leaves officials puzzled

Man-animal conflicts

Forest Department officials are on their toes to capture the animal.

Soumya Chatterjee

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In the second such incident in the last two months, a farmer was mauled to death by a tiger on Tuesday morning in Karnataka’s Gundulpet taluk of Charamarajangar district.   Police officials said the incident occurred in the Hindupura area which falls under the Gopalaswamy Range of the Bandipur Tiger Reserve. The issue has led to tension in the area with one forest official facing the wrath of an angry mob.  According to local officials, the deceased farmer has been identified as 80-year-old Shivalingappa. In recent weeks, the tiger was perceived to be in the vicinity as many cattle were found dead. Tuesday’s incident occurred when Shivalingappa was tending to his farm in Chowdhalli village. The same tiger is suspected to have killed another man last month in the same area. However, the involvement of the same animal is yet to be established.  Since then, forest officials have been trying to locate the animal who was thought to be injured or old as it has taken to killing cattle or people. However, camera traps suggest the tiger is a healthy one and has been seen running rapidly. Normally, old or injured tigers that reside in human habitations take to killing cattle and other animals. Wildlife activists say the situation is rather perplexing. Joseph Hoover, a conservationist and former member of the Karnataka Wildlife Board, said, “The forest officials have a difficult situation to handle as naturally the residents of the area will be angry and there will be anti-wildlife sentiments. With better conservation efforts, tiger numbers in Bandipur and the surrounding forests have grown though forest areas have shrunk due to encroachments. Tigers being territorial in nature, some of them have been forced to move out of core forest areas leading to occasional conflicts with humans.”  Forest officials are also not sure if there is more than one tiger behind the incidents. “We can’t say as of now if the same animal has done it, as three or four tigers are fighting for the territory. Efforts are on to capture it but since this in not a plain land, we have been unable to do it so far,” Assistant Conservator of Forests Ravi told TNM. In September, the farmer named Shivamadaiah was returning to his village with two bullocks from a nearby village. The death in September had triggered protests against the Forest Department, with villagers demanding the department lay traps and set up cameras. The protests were withdrawn after the family was promised a compensation of Rs 5 lakh and a job in the Forest Department to his kin.

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Why Bengaluru’s sanitation workers are falling sick despite regular ‘health camps’

Health

Sanitary workers have died of dengue and chikungunya, and have suffered with no medical insurance.

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Over five months ago, 40-year-old Venkatamma, a pourakarmika (sanitation worker) working in Bengaluru’s ward number 27 (Banaswadi) contracted Chikungunya. Venkatammma took four days off from work hoping that her fever would go away. On day five, Venkatamma went back to work, despite severe pain in her joints. A week later, Venkatamma succumbed to her illness. Ammu (20), Venkatamma’s daughter says that she had taken her mother to Specialty Hospital in Banaswadi and doctors concluded that she had Chikungunya. “We took her home as we could not afford to admit her in the hospital. But my mother did not get better. She went back to work after four days when her fever came down. But she was very weak and had immense body pain,” Ammu says. Venkatakamma’s colleague Odooramma (43), who also works in the same ward in Banaswadi contracted Chikungunya a week after Venkatamma’s death. Odooramma, who supports a large family was also unable to take time off from work to recuperate. She succumbed to her illness on June 17. “She had taken loans to marry off my older sisters and she would say that if she missed a day’s work, she would not be able to pay interest. I had saved some money and we took her to Fortis Hospital. They said it was Chikungunya,” says Geeta, Odooramma’s youngest daughter. No Employees State Insurance (ESI) cards In both these cases, the civic body – Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)- had not issued them their insurance or ESI cards, which would have helped them obtain free medical treatment. Despite a government order passed in 2016, which made it mandatory for the BBMP health officers at the ward level to collect the necessary information from the pourakarmikas and issue ESI cards, many of them have not received it. Appanna, a pourakarmika from Mahadevapura, says that he had contracted dengue a month ago. Appanna’s colleagues in the ward too, had got dengue. “We work with garbage and there are mosquitoes everywhere we work. I have got dengue thrice in three years. Other pourakarmikas I know have also got it many times. But no one cares about us,” he says. Speaking to TNM, Nirmala, President of the BBMP Contract Pourakarmikas’ Union, says that the health officers have entrusted the job of collecting the data from the pourakarmikas to the contractors (mestris) in every ward. “The contractors are not the ones who have to do this job. Health officers have to help us fill the forms if we don’t know how to read or write and process it. This work has not been done. In Mahadevapura alone, over 15 pourakarmikas had contracted dengue,” Nirmala says. Dr Vijayendra, Chief Health Officer of the BBMP says that the Zonal Health Officers must ensure that the junior officers are carrying out their duties properly. “There were problems with biometrics and we had to weed out so many fake names. Once that was sorted out, we are now issuing the ESI cards to all of them,” he claimed. BBMP health camps an eye wash? Dr Siddappaji, Health Officer for East Zone says that the BBMP conducts health camps for pourakarmikas once every three months. “These camps are conducted to see if they have any illnesses. Pourakarmikas need this as they come into contact with garbage, dust and sewage on a daily basis. Since they are exposed to toxic materials every day, it is necessary to keep tabs on their health,” he says. He says that although the health camps are conducted regularly, the footfalls are low. Refuting Dr Siddappaji’s claims, Gangamma, who is also a member of the BBMP Contract Pourakarmikas’ Union, says that the BBMP’s health camps are an eye wash. “They line us up and click pictures of us. They sometimes take our blood samples but nothing happened after that. There is no word on our health condition. It is done just to show that the work is being done. Even I am a pourakarmika and I know. They can’t blame us and say that pourakarmikas don’t show up for health camps. If it was worth the while, we would have gone,” she says.  

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Mother-daughter duo arrested for murder of relative over financial dispute in Karnataka

Crime

The victim and the accused allegedly got into a fight over Rs 1 lakh.

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Tension prevailed in Kodagu district's Halekudige village on Monday as residents demanded that the police arrest a mother-daughter duo for allegedly murdering a relative. Yashodha (42) and her daughter Harini (20) were eventually arrested for the murder of Shiva (38), who was found dead on Sunday evening. Shiva is Yashodha’s brother-in-law and they were living in the same house. An investigating officer told TNM that Yashodha and Harini had stashed Shiva's body under the bed.  “One of Yashodha's neighbours, Mithun, called the police station and said that there is suspicious activity in the house and that he heard sounds of a person screaming and struggling. By the time we reached the spot, a lot of neighbours and Shiva's relatives had gathered outside the house and were demanding that the door be opened. When we went in, we found the body under the bed," the officer said. On Monday, relatives threw stones at the home and demanded that both mother and daughter be handed over to them. They were also ready to beat up Yashoda and Harini, a police official in Kushalnagar Rural police station told TNM.   “We arrested both Yashodha and Harini and we determined that both of them attacked Shiva with the lamp over a financial dispute. It was related to an undisclosed amount of money held by another aunt who was not present in the house at the time of the murder. We are currently investigating this,” said the police official. The police will question Lakshmamma, the aunt allegedly involved in the financial dispute. The murder occurred at 6:30 pm on Sunday and according to sources close to the family, Yashoda and Shiva got into a fight over a sum of Rs 1 lakh. Shiva had asked for a sum of Rs 1 lakh that Yashodha owed him to be returned. After this, he was allegedly assaulted with a lamp by Yashodha, investigating officials said. Shiva worked in a coffee depot near Kudige and was unmarried.

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Even after a year, Bengaluru still awaits Centre’s promised e-waste recycling plant

Environment

Currently, Bengaluru has 11 licensed e-waste recyclers in the city and its periphery.

Soumya Chatterjee

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Over a year after it was promised to be ready, the first-ever government-run electronic waste (e-waste) recycling plant is far from seeing the light of day.  The announcement for such a facility was made by the late central minister and Bengaluru South MP Anant Kumar in July 2018. Bengaluru, being the IT capital of India, was chosen to be the home for such a facility.  The late minister had then said the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers was already working on it and it would be up and running within four months, and will be maintained by the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET).  However, a top official of CIPET told TNM that land for the recycling plant is yet to be allotted. TNM could not reach DV Sadanada Gowda, Bengaluru North MP, who is now the Minister of Chemicals, for a comment on the same. Sources in the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) also confirmed that the institute has not reached out to them for the mandatory licenses, which are essential to start such a facility. While the government-run facility is yet to come up, the city already has multiple private e-waste processing centres. Currently, KSPCB officials say, there are 11 licensed e-waste recyclers in the city and its periphery. But subject matter experts say that India, particularly Bengaluru, does not have adequate e-waste recycling facilities.  The CIPET-run proposed facility also does not feature in the yet-to-be commissioned list of e-waste recycling hubs. This is KSPCB's list of the prospective plants in the city, which are yet to get the necessary clearances.  E-waste includes discarded television sets, mobile phones, laptops, computers, refrigerators or any such equipment or parts. Unlike other forms of waste, toxic chemicals or heavy metal content in these wastes is higher and requires proper management to prevent immediate harm to human health and the environment. India is one of the leading e-waste producers, generating 2 million tonnes of waste annually. And only 5% of this waste is recycled or processed scientifically.  While local governments (municipalities/panchayats) are mandated to manage regular forms of solid waste, e-waste is supposed to be regulated by the central and state Pollution Control Boards. Speaking to TNM, Randeep D, Special Commissioner for Solid Waste Management, BBMP, said, “While e-waste does not come under our ambit, we have tied up with the private recyclers and have put e-waste bins at all BBMP offices, including our headquarters at Corporation Circle.” He added, “We need to maybe start a monthly collection drive so that we can create awareness and a common collection point for these recyclers.” 

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