Karnataka man gets trapped in sand while digging a well, rescued two hours later

Accident

A well-digger was trapped neck-high in beach sand, but tragedy was averted as fire officials rushed to his aid.

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A 35-year-old man, who was helping dig a well for a company near the sea, was trapped when the mud surrounding the well suddenly collapsed, leaving him covered in fine white beach sand. The incident took place in Kundapur taluk in Udupi district, with comes under the Gangolli police station limits. Rohit Kharve and four others were working on making the final water pipe connection when he was sucked into the earth in a matter of seconds. However, alert bystanders contacted the police, who rushed to the spot and called in the fire brigade. Police said that water was found just 20 meters below the surface, as the spot is right next to the sea. After the labourers struck water, they were trying to lay a pipe when the ground below him gave way. The incident occurred at around 12.30 pm on Sunday. Rohit was trapped in mud for two hours before he was rescued.   A rescue mission in Kundapura taluk where a man was lifted out of a well with a crane. All's well that ends well! Watch pic.twitter.com/W5NC9lVMJk — Alithea Stephanie Mounika//ಅಲಿತ್ಯ ಮೌನಿಕಾ (@alitheasm) February 16, 2020   Fire marshals arrived at the spot, bringing a JCB crane to help pull him out. However, this didn’t work as the man was almost completely buried in the sand, with only his neck visible. The crane, which was trying to shift the sand ended up exacerbating the problem as it covered the man with more sand, thereby burying him. Officials had to think quickly for an alternative. They finally hit on the solution of using smaller tools to move the sand. They then extended a rope to the man with the crane, so that he could be lifted out. Police said that the man is in a fit condition and could easily pull himself out with help from the crane, and was thus finally pulled out of the pit. Officials said that the man was taken to hospital, where doctors declared him healthy. While the pipe connection was laid, the well has now been covered up with sand.  

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Karnataka: Savadi poised to win MLC election, will remain as Deputy CM

Politics

Savadi in all likelihood will take up the seat vacated by outgoing member Rizwan Arshad.

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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi is likely to retain his ministerial status with the BJP leader election as a Member of Legislative Council on Monday now becoming a mere formality. This as the only rival candidate for his MLC election unofficially walked out of the race, according to multiple reports. Former Congress leader BR Anil Kumar supported by a section of JD(S) leaders was to give Savadi a contest but a lack of consensus among the Congress leadership and paucity of numbers paved his walkout. However since he failed to officially withdraw his candidature by February 10, an official election will still be held. Savadi in all likelihood will take up the seat vacated by outgoing Congress member Rizwan Arshad who had won the recently conducted byepolls from Shivajinagar constituency in Bengaluru.  "He will win without any effort and there will be no change in his position," S Prakash, spokesperson of the BJP told TNM. The leader from north Karnataka who was sworn in as the Deputy CM and holds the portfolio of Transport had to be elected in the upper house of the state’s legislature before February 19 as every minister has to be a member of the House within six months of swearing-in. He had incidentally lost the Assembly elections held in 2018 at the hands of then Congress and now BJP MLA Mahesh Kumathalli.  The Dy CM’s another claim to fame was he had resigned as a minister for watching porn on his mobile phone in the Assembly in 2012. In that contentious incident in February 2012, Laxman was caught by cameramen inside the Assembly watching a pornographic video with the then Women and Child Development Minister CC Patil on the mobile handset of fellow MLA Krishna Palemar.   While Laxman and CC Patil claimed that they were watching footage of a rave party held in Udupi and not a pornographic clip, they resigned within a week to prevent embarrassment to the ruling BJP. 

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Bengaluru, Mysuru to get eight 16-car suburban trains, to run all seven days

Transport

With the additional rakes, these trains will be able to ferry around 4,900 passengers at a time

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In a boost for public transport for Bengaluru and Mysuru, eight suburban trains running in the Bengaluru division will be doubled from eight-car trains to 16-car trains from Monday. Moreover, these trains will also run all days of the week, compared to the earlier schedule when they would run six days of the week. These trains are: 06575 Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna railway station (SBC)- Mysuru (MYS) MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit), 06576 MYS-SBC MEMU, 66535 SBC-RMGM (Ramanagaram) MEMU, 66536 RMGM-SBC MEMU, 66541 WFD (Whitefield)-SBC MEMU, 66542 SBC-WFD MEMU, 66543 KPN  (Kuppam) -SBC MEMU, 66545 SBC-KPN MEMU. The new trains will have four motor cars and twelve trailing cars. According to rail officials, the motor cars can carry 226 passengers – 155 sitting and 121 standing – and the trailing cars can carry 325 passengers.  these trains will be able to ferry around 4,900 passengers at a time.  The Railways said all these trains will have state of the art 3-phase MEMU rakes produced by ICF (Integral Coach Factory). The additional capacity will make daily commuting for many commuters much more comfortable and also encourage casual travellers to use rail as opposed to roadways and as a result, decongest the traffic gridlock including in the busy Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway. The development was also tweeted by Mysore-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha as he seemingly pushed for the same owing to requests from a user. As a response to the same, rail user collective — Mysuru Rail Users thanked the MP and Minister of State, Railways Suresh Angadi. 06575/76 #Bengaluru - #Mysuru 8car MEMU with other 3 pairs of Blr MEMUs gets 16car from 17.2.2020 Sir, @mepratap @SureshAngadi_ thank you very much. Passengers can now travel with great comfort due to your efforts to improve Mysuru Bengaluru mobility @drmsbc @DrmMys @SWRRLY pic.twitter.com/90458xmTGz — Mysuru Railway Users (@MysuruRailUsers) February 14, 2020 With the upgrade of these services, rail activists have further demanded a similar increase in services in the Yeshwantpur-Hosur routes as well.  The announcement has incidentally drawn criticism for Bengaluru MPs for failing to draw the Centre’s attention over not getting a green light for an exclusive suburban rail body for Bengaluru from the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs. The decades-long wait for a dedicated suburban rail authority is ensuing even after the Extended Railway Board (ERB) of the Indian Railways had already cleared it on November 4. If one really works at it, the government will listen. For that, we need our representatives to represent our need & requirement. What is holding our representatives back in Bangalore? Why are we talking, nay begging, demanding for THIRTY SEVEN years. https://t.co/zCassNlJAU — Whitefield Rising (@WFRising) February 15, 2020

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Nine killed as private bus hits massive boulder in Karnataka’s Udupi

Accident

The driver of the bus, going from Mangaluru from Sringeri, was trying to manoeuvre a turn while travelling on a ghat road when he reportedly lost control of the vehicle.

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Nine people were killed after a private bus collided with a large roadside boulder in Udupi district in Karnataka on Saturday, the police said. The accident took place on Saturday evening, at around 5.45 pm, on the Mulnur Ghat at Abbas Kattingeri in Mala village, while the bus was on its way to Mangaluru from Sringeri, reported the Times of India. The bus, which was reportedly carrying around 35 passengers, was trying to manoeuvre a turn while travelling on a ghat road when the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle hit a massive boulder and the impact caused seven people to die on the spot.  Two others passed away while they were on the way to the hospital, according to the Hindu. The deceased passengers have been identified as Radha Ravi, Yogendra, Preetham Gowda, Basavaraju, Angana, Sharul and Ranjitha. The cleaner of the bus was also killed in the accident.  According to reports, the passengers in the bus were mostly in their early 20s and were employees of Vital Records Private Limited near JCK Industrial Park. Century Vital Records is a data security company which works in the Hebbal Industrial Mysuru. The group was visiting Udupi, Hornadu and Kudremukh, TOI reported.  While some of the injured persons were rushed to Manipal hospital, others were taken to the Karkala city government hospital, police told the Hindu. The police have said that rash and negligent driving by the driver is likely to have caused the accident. A case has been registered at the Karkala Rural Police Station, the police told The Hindu. Last month, three persons were killed and four others were injured after a fatal collision between a van and a bus near Bengaluru. Both the vehicles caught fire after the impact, but while passengers of the bus, travelling from Bengaluru to Shivamogga, managed to escape, the three passengers who were trapped in the van could not escape and were charred to death. (With PTI inputs)

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3 engineering students from Kashmir arrested on sedition charges in Karnataka

Arrest

The three students had made a selfie video, which Bajrang Dal objected to.

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The Karnataka Police on Saturday arrested three Kashmiri students studying at the KLE Institute of Technology in Hubballi under charges of sedition. The arrests came after the Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, staged protests inside the college calling the three students ‘anti-nationals’ for raising slogans in favour of Pakistan in a video. On Saturday morning, a student of the college, also a member of Bajrang Dal, received a video on WhatsApp of the three Kashmiri students and alleged that the three students had hailed Pakistan in the video. He informed the outfit’s members about the three students, after which a group of Bajrang Dal’s members gathered outside the college and began shouting slogans. “Arrest the anti-nationals, arrest the anti-nationals,” the Bajrang Dal members shouted. In the video which has now gone viral, one of the three students can be seen initially uttering something with background music on, after which they chant 'Azadi' one after the other. Then joining the chorus to the music that is playing, one of the students says "Pakistan" and after a few beats he says "Zindabad." The music they played is said to be Pakistani military's media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) song, which police said needs to be ascertained. The video seems to have been recorded at the college hostel. Speaking to TNM, Shivanand Sattigiri, a member of the Bajrang Dal, who led the protest, said that he and several other members went to meet the College Principal to demand that the three students be handed over to the police. Protests by members of Bajrang Dal “The Bajrang Dal members barged into the college and began shouting slogans. They said that a video of the three students from Kashmir had gone viral and that they were making anti-national statements. They demanded that I call the police,” said Basavaraj, the Principal of KLE Institute of Technology. Basavaraj said that he called the police. However, a scuffle broke out between the Bajrang Dal members and the three students. “We got into an argument with the students. We began saying that people like them must be chased down and killed in every street. That’s when the argument happened,” Bajrang Dal member Shivanand Sattigiri said. Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissioner Dileep said that the Principal of the college then called the Gokul Road Police Station and informed him about the protests being staged by Bajrang Dal. “We have arrested the three students. Two of them were in the first year and one was in the third year. They are from Kashmir’s Shopian and they have been booked for sedition and disrupting communal harmony,” Commissioner Dileep said. (With PTI inputs)

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Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani visits Bengaluru migrant settlements where hutments were razed

Migrant

The residents highlighted the recent demolition drive by officials over unfounded concerns of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants staying in settlements.

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Jignesh Mewani, an independent MLA from Gujarat and a Dalit leader, visited migrant settlements in Bengaluru on Saturday morning, weeks after residents of few settlements in Kariyammana Agrahara in the city lost their homes in an unauthorised demolition drive over fears of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants staying there. Jignesh Mewani visited the migrant settlements at Thubarahalli and Munekolala near Marathahalli, and Kariyammana Agrahara near Bellandur in the city to speak with residents. The residents of the settlements in Munekolala also had their huts razed to the ground on Thursday over a private land dispute. The residents of the settlements spelled out their problems to Jignesh Mewani. In a video taken of the interaction between Jignesh and residents of a settlement located near Vagdevi School in Munnekolala near Marathahalli, residents can be heard telling Jignesh what happened on Thursday when people came to demolish their hutments. Multiple residents allege that the people who came to demolish the settlements manhandled them, allegedly “threw” a small child, threatened them and physically pulled them out of their huts. A resident can be seen telling Jignesh, "There were few people who came to us and asked us to leave the sheds. We asked them why we should leave when we are paying rent?" Around 20 hutments were demolished in the incident on Thursday, police officials said, due to a private dispute.  The residents in Kariyammana Agrahara meanwhile raised the issue of the demolition drive conducted on January 19 in which hundreds of huts were razed down in the presence of police officials. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) recently termed the demolition drive 'unauthorised', and the Karnataka High Court has since asked the state government to formulate a scheme to rehabilitate residents within the next month.  "The residents came to Jignesh Mewani to raise concerns about the demolition, and it was a positive interaction. He listened to their travails and promised to do what he could," Kaleemullah, a civic activist based in Bengaluru said.  He pointed out that politicians from Bengaluru had not extended support for residents living in these areas. On Friday, Jignesh Mewani also visited Bilal Bagh, the site of the indefinite protest led by women against the CAA and NRC on Tannery Road in the city.

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Bidar teacher, mother yet to walk out of prison after getting bail for anti-CAA play case

Bidar sedition case

A lawyer representing the women told TNM that the formalities are yet to be completed.

TNM Staff

The mother of a student and a headteacher in Karnataka's Bidar district who have been charged with sedition are yet to walk out of the district prison after getting bail on Friday, a police official said. "We are yet to receive the court order on bail to release Fareeda Begum and Nazbunnisa. If we receive the court order today, the women can walk out of the prison by evening," according to Bidar district prison Superintendent Shivaputra Hajimani. Narayan Ganesh, an advocate representing the women told TNM, "We expect the formalities to be completed by the end of today and the two women will leave the jail." Bidar Principal District and Sessions Court granted conditional bail to Fareeda Begum, a head teacher at the Shaheen Primary and High School and Nazbunnisa, a parent of one of the students in the anti-CAA play, in which the minor students allegedly 'insulted' Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Nazbunnisa was arrested for after her 11-year-old daughter uttered the dialogue that landed the play in trouble, while Begum was arrested for allowing the play to be staged in the school. The play was staged by students of classes 4, 5 and 6.  The two women were arrested on January 30 following a complaint by a right-wing activist on January 30. Two weeks later on Friday, the Bidar district and sessions court granted bail to the women on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh with two sureties for the same amount. With its head office at Shaheen Nagar in Bidar and managed by the Allama Iqbal Educational Society, the Shaheen Group of Institutions runs a string of institutes from kindergarten to undergraduate. With IANS inputs  

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