D Chinnamallikarjun
BENGALURU: Acting on a tipoff, Kumarswamy Layout police have arrested a 41-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh and recovered 10kg of ganja from him.
The accused, D Chinnamallikarjun, resident of Reddyvaripalli village in Anantapur district, told cops that it was his first visit to Bengaluru and he wanted to make a quick buck by selling ganja to New Year revellers.
“Our informants had told us that a drug peddler will come near Banashankari temple. Accordingly, plainclothesmen were deployed near the temple and we caught him redhanded. Chinnamallikarjun looks like a professional peddler and we have contacted Andhra Pradesh police to learn more about him,” police said “He claims it is his first visit to the city. But we have our doubts. In his phone book, he has at least 20 contacts of city-based professionals and students,” an officer added.
Aerial monitoring of forest fires will help douse them before they cause too much damage, say officials
MYSURU: Intent on securing the thick woods from raging infernos, forest department officials at the Bandipur Tiger Reserve, which is infamous for its annual forest fires, has sought the assistance of Indian Air Force (IAF).
Foresters have requested the IAF to operate flights at low altitudes to help detect fires and alert the department on the ground to mitigate the disaster.
Field director and Bandipur Tiger Reserve conservator of forests Natesha Sri Rajappa said that he had discussed the possibility of such an operation with Air Marshal RD Mathur, who heads the IAF Training Command. “We have requested IAF to deploy helicopters to alert us about forest fires and help extinguish them. The IAF authorities have agreed to help,” Rajappa told STOI.