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HUBBALLI: Anxiety among the people over the condition of the roads in and around the twin cities has mounted many notches following the recent tragic accident on Hubballi-Dharwad bypass road that cost the life of 11 people. Worried residents have launched a signature campaign to push the authorities concerned towards making the bypass road, a stretch infamous for accidents, one on which nearly 30 to 35 fatalities are reported on average each year.
Although a similar campaign was launched a year ago and more than 13,000 signatures collected, little was done to make the road safer for commute.
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MANGALURU: The city police has directed the management of temples, daivasthanas and other places of the worship to take necessary measures to prevent untoward incidents. At least four incidents targeting religious places have been reported in the city in January.
Police said mischievous elements appeared to be at work to disturb communal harmony in the coastal district would be dealt with strictly.
N Shashi Kumar, city police commissioner told reporters on Wednesday that instructions have been given to managements of places of worship to be equipped with CCTVs.
Currently, money in hundis (donation boxes) are counted once in three months or six months or whenever they are full. “We have asked them to count money in the donation boxes once a week compulsorily. We have noticed a lack of surveillance in places where such incidents have been reported. In such a scenario, it is a challenge to track offenders who commit such crimes,”
MYSURU: Three women are cooling their heels in jail, for attempting to blackmail a neurosurgeon.
Self-styled human rights activists and reporters of ‘Suvarna Kaveri Express’, Amreen Sania, Shahida and Ayusha Bai, hatched a plan to extort money from KR Hospital’s neurosurgeon Dr Rajesh T S, and blackmailed him to regarding his alleged act of receiving favour from patients, to offer service.
Accordingly, one of them telephoned him on his mobile number on January 18, and claimed they have received complaints against him from patients and their relatives, of receiving money from them, to provide them treatment. She threatened to disclose the complaint in the media, and summoned him to a nearby hotel at KR Hospital, where they demanded Rs 5 lakh from him, if he didn’t want the information they had, to appear in the media.
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and Trishika Kumari visited a Channapatna toys showroom on Thursday
MYSURU: In a shot in the arm for traditional Channapatna toys, which has been facing threat from the influx of Chinese toys in the market, Mysuru royal couple Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and Trishika Kumari have taken to promote the former. They are planning to sell those made of organic materials at national and international markets by creating an online platform for them.
Speaking to reporters after visiting Channapatna Toys Handicrafts Showroom and inspecting the cluster of houses involved in making such toys at the toy town of Karnataka Channapatna on Thursday, Yaduveer said his family members, especially Trishika Kumari, had initiated to promote the toys as it would reach out to children outside the state and abroad.