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CITY<br />

HILIGHTS<br />

Vol 1, Issue <strong>202</strong> `.1.00/-<br />

Tuesday, <strong>July</strong> <strong>26</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />

www.ibcworldnews.com www.cityhilights.news<br />

English Daily 3<br />

CITY<br />

Feeling less loved by<br />

parents, girl commits<br />

suicide<br />

Sibling rivalry took an ugly<br />

turn in Karnataka’s Udupi district<br />

when a teenage girl committed<br />

suicide because she felt<br />

her parents loved her younger<br />

sister more.18-year-old Pragati<br />

Shetty, was a native of Bidkalkatte<br />

in KundapurTaluk of<br />

Udupi district. In her suicide<br />

note, she said that her parents<br />

did not love her enough and<br />

never paid a visit to her in the<br />

hostel where she stayed. She<br />

also mentioned that her parents<br />

only loved her younger<br />

sister.<br />

Forensic labs to come<br />

up in state<br />

The state government is<br />

planning to set up forensic<br />

science laboratories in every<br />

district head quarters. Speaking<br />

to media, after inspecting<br />

the facilities at state forensic<br />

science lab in the city on<br />

Monday, State Minister for<br />

Home Affairs G Parameshwara<br />

said that forensic labs<br />

will be established in all districts<br />

within a short period.<br />

The forensic science experts<br />

are directed to submit reports<br />

within 15 days period.<br />

Adding further, he said that<br />

287 vacant posts in the lab<br />

will be filled up soon.<br />

THE STRIKE THAT STRUCK<br />

THE CITY HARD<br />

Bus stands looked<br />

abandoned and employees<br />

avoided work as buses<br />

stopped plying in the city<br />

and across Karnataka on<br />

Monday. A similar deserted<br />

look was witnessed in<br />

Mysuru, Tumakuru, Bidar,<br />

Kolar as an indefinite<br />

strike called by Unions<br />

of State-owned transport<br />

corporation KSRTC, BMTC,<br />

NWKRTC and NEKRTC began<br />

on Monday.<br />

Around 23,000 KSRTC,<br />

BMTC and regional RTC<br />

buses were off roads on the<br />

A few associations were<br />

asked to step in and provide<br />

additional help during<br />

the strike. Subsequently,<br />

Namma Metro, which typically<br />

sees a ridership of<br />

600-700 on opening at 6<br />

a.m. saw 2,204 travelers<br />

take the metro between<br />

6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on the<br />

Purple line (East-West<br />

passageway). An extra 804<br />

individuals took the Green<br />

Line (North line) in the<br />

morning.<br />

The South-Western Railway<br />

(SWR) announced that<br />

KEMPEGOWDA BUS STATION LOOKS ABANDONED<br />

holidays for schools and<br />

colleges since 90% of the<br />

commuters depend on private<br />

buses.<br />

Transport authorities,<br />

meanwhile, stepped in<br />

with alternatives. Minister<br />

Ramalinga Reddy said<br />

they have roped in 30,000<br />

private buses and 80,000<br />

maxi-cabs for commuting<br />

in the city .<br />

BJP’s LASHES OUT AT<br />

GOVERNMENT<br />

State BJP President B.S.<br />

the government lacks in vision<br />

and imagination”<br />

Protestors attacked<br />

three North Eastern Karnataka<br />

Road Transport Corporation<br />

(NERKTC) buses<br />

woth stones.<br />

Protestors damaged<br />

more than 92 buses in the<br />

state. KSRTC endured the<br />

worst as 49 buses were<br />

damaged, 4 BMTC transports,<br />

12 NWKRTC and 27<br />

KSRTC BUS DAMAGED BY PROTESTORS<br />

BUSES DAMAGED<br />

IT FIRMS HIT BY BMTC STRIKE<br />

First day of the BMTC<br />

strike not only affected the<br />

general public at large but<br />

also the IT firms in the city.<br />

Firms that hired BMTC<br />

buses to ferry employees to<br />

and from IT firms had to go<br />

for alternatives like hiring<br />

taxi services.<br />

The BMTC has charted<br />

out 500 buses to various IT<br />

firms and private companies<br />

in the city. Speaking about<br />

this, EkroopCaur, Managing<br />

Director of BMTC said that<br />

all the 500 buses rented for<br />

the IT firms would be off<br />

road during the strike.<br />

CM WITH NATIONAL JUNIOR<br />

SWIMMING <strong>CH</strong>AMPIONS<br />

As a precaution, many<br />

companies had already informed<br />

their employees that<br />

they should make alternative<br />

transportation facilities<br />

to reach their work places.<br />

Some companies had<br />

arranged transportation<br />

while some companies<br />

asked the drivers to make<br />

multiple trips to bring the<br />

staff to the offices.<br />

One of the private companies’<br />

president said that<br />

they lost the hope of renewing<br />

the agreement for<br />

the next year over BMTC<br />

buses. Due to the strike,<br />

many companies had to<br />

give either holiday or work<br />

from home option for their<br />

staff.<br />

Meanwhile, many PSUs<br />

using BMTC services had<br />

asked their employees to either<br />

use private vehicles or<br />

carpool to reach the workplace.<br />

A senior employee of<br />

a PSU in north Bengaluru<br />

said his company was roping<br />

in maxi cabs temporarily<br />

instead of BMTC buses.<br />

AIR takes initiative to<br />

air finance programme<br />

All India Radio (AIR) Bengaluru<br />

will broadcast a series<br />

of financial management programmes<br />

titled ‘Your Money<br />

Your Life’, sponsored by the<br />

Karnataka Circle of SBI.<br />

Experts will answer<br />

questions from listeners on<br />

savings, budgeting, investment,<br />

planning for old age,<br />

donating to charity, banking<br />

etc. The programme will be<br />

relayed by all AIR stations in<br />

Karnataka.<br />

Bengaluru is the new<br />

hub for Gold recycling<br />

Muthoot Exim Pvt Ltd, has<br />

opened Muthoot Gold Recycling<br />

center in Bangaluru on<br />

Monday. The company also<br />

has plans of opening 14 or 15<br />

such centers in Bengaluru in<br />

the coming years.<br />

Muthoot Gold Point has<br />

the eighth centres in the<br />

country, after Coimbatore,<br />

Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,<br />

Ahmedabad and Vijayawada.<br />

The company has claimed<br />

that the scheme has helped<br />

the government cut down the<br />

import of gold, by garnering<br />

and channelising domestic<br />

unused gold to productive<br />

use.<br />

According to estimates, it<br />

said, gold recycling has not<br />

been tapped to its fullest in<br />

India and it mostly happens<br />

in the unorganised sector.<br />

The company through<br />

its centres will buy old and<br />

used gold items directly from<br />

customers, reprocess, refine<br />

and supply refined bars for<br />

domestic consumption, with<br />

the objective of reducing dependence<br />

on gold imports, it<br />

added.<br />

After the initiative was<br />

launched in November 2015,<br />

the company was able to recycle<br />

140 kg of used gold.<br />

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ARIAL VIEW OF RTC BUS STAND AT MAJESTIC<br />

first day of strike on Monday.<br />

The strike was called<br />

by unions demanding a<br />

30-35 per cent revision of<br />

salaries as against the 10<br />

per cent that the State is<br />

prepared to offer. In any<br />

case, with the administration<br />

adhering to its stand<br />

that anything above 10 per<br />

cent would not be plausible,<br />

Union leaders say that<br />

they have no other alternative<br />

but to go on strike.<br />

In places like Mysuru,<br />

Hassan, Belagavi, Mangaluru<br />

and Bengaluru, suburbanites<br />

could be seen<br />

struggling to find alternative<br />

transport. In Hassan,<br />

private buses saw a chance<br />

to profit and were extracting<br />

up to Rs.100 additional<br />

than the cost charged by<br />

the KSRTC.<br />

NAMMA METRO<br />

RECORDS HIGHEST<br />

NUMBER OF PASSENGERS<br />

METRO FREQUENCY TO BE INCREASED<br />

Due to the BMTC’s strike,<br />

the Bangalore Metro Rail<br />

Corporation Ltd. has decided<br />

to increase the number<br />

of trips between the destinations<br />

for the convenience of<br />

the commuters in the Garden<br />

City.<br />

“We will run a train, which<br />

SUPPORT POURS IN FOR MISSING IAF OFFICER’S FAMILY<br />

Grief continues to grip<br />

Eknath Shetty’s family, the<br />

Indian Air Force personnel<br />

who disappeared in the<br />

Russian-made IAF air ship<br />

A 32 over Bay of Bengal.<br />

Dakshina Kannada Superintendent<br />

of Police Bhushan<br />

Borase met Shetty’s<br />

family on Sunday and guaranteed<br />

all possible support<br />

from the department. The<br />

SP spoke to Jayanthi (Shetty’s<br />

wife) and tolf her that<br />

they were in constant touch<br />

with the Coastal Guard DIG<br />

Suresh and Chennai Control<br />

Room and are collecting<br />

information.<br />

Apart from the SP Borase,<br />

Airforce Wing Commander<br />

from Mysuru R G<br />

Hegde visited the grieving<br />

all mail and express trains<br />

would stop at Baiyappanahalli,<br />

Whitefield, Carmelaram,<br />

Channasandra<br />

stations in both bearings<br />

other than trains from Bengaluru<br />

and Mysuru stopping<br />

at the Nayandahalli<br />

station.<br />

CITY STUDENTS<br />

ENJOY HOLIDAY<br />

The Chief Minister had<br />

on Sunday announced a<br />

holiday for schools and<br />

colleges across the state<br />

on Monday and Tuesday ,<br />

but left the final decision<br />

to the Deputy Commissioners.<br />

While schools in Bengaluru<br />

Urban district will<br />

remain closed on tuesday,<br />

in Bengaluru Rural, it was<br />

decided that they would<br />

be closed only on Monday<br />

. Dakshina Kannada<br />

and Udupi administration<br />

has decided not to declare<br />

is able to carry about 950<br />

commuters, for every six<br />

minutes to accommodate<br />

the increasing passenger<br />

strength on a continuous basis.<br />

If there is a need, there<br />

would also be extension of<br />

services upto 11 pm on the<br />

purple line while green line<br />

family on behalf of the Indian<br />

Army and guaranteed all<br />

possible help.<br />

Earlier on Saturday, Captain<br />

Ganesh Karnik had met<br />

missing officer’s wife and<br />

gave condolences to her.<br />

Eknath Shetty (48)<br />

joined armed force as<br />

a Subedar in 1985 and<br />

moved to Madras regiment<br />

later. He had served in Jammu<br />

and Kashmir, Arunachal<br />

Pradesh and Punjab with a<br />

brief stretch in Sri Lanka. In<br />

spite of the fact that his service<br />

in armed force finished<br />

in 2009, he got a call from<br />

the aviation based armed<br />

forces to join its safeguard<br />

security wing. In this unit,<br />

he had served at places like<br />

YESWANTHPUR BUS STAND WEARS DESERTED LOOK<br />

Yeddyurappa once again<br />

seized the opportunity<br />

to criticize the government<br />

saying, “The bane of<br />

this government is that it<br />

makes every issue a matter<br />

of prestige and approaches<br />

the problem with ego. This<br />

further vitiates the atmosphere<br />

and complicates the<br />

matter”.<br />

Stating that the ‘interest<br />

of the common man’ is<br />

of paramount importance,<br />

the BJP President said that<br />

the strike has led untold<br />

hardship to daily wage<br />

workers, students who<br />

solely depended on RTC<br />

buses.<br />

Charging the state government<br />

of being flippant<br />

on this issue, Yeddyurappa<br />

added, “The workers had<br />

given notice of their proposed<br />

strike about 20 days<br />

ago. The government ought<br />

to have plunged into action<br />

and taken steps to prevent<br />

the strike. This shows that<br />

is already operation till 11<br />

pm”, BMRCL Managing Director<br />

Pradeep Singh Kharola<br />

said.<br />

“BMRCL will not be able<br />

to provide alternative arrangement<br />

for BMTC feeder<br />

services. However, we have<br />

asked Wicked Ride which<br />

Kannur, Goa and Kanpur<br />

before getting posted at<br />

Port Blair.<br />

The Indian Air Force<br />

plane conveying 29 individuals<br />

disappeared on Friday<br />

on a flight to Port Blair<br />

in the Bay of Bengal. The<br />

Russian-made A 32 was en<br />

route to Port Blair, the capital<br />

of Andaman and Nicobar<br />

islands, from Chennai when<br />

it vanished from the radar.<br />

There were 21 military personnel<br />

on board including<br />

six group individuals. The<br />

other individuals on board<br />

were regular people, some<br />

relatives of fighters sent on<br />

the islands.<br />

In 1968, the aircraft carrying<br />

98 defence personnel<br />

NEKRTC buses were damaged<br />

incurring a loss of<br />

about Rs 8,97,300.<br />

Keeping in view the<br />

damage the protestors<br />

could cause to public property,<br />

3000 police men were<br />

deployed to guarantee law<br />

and order in the state.<br />

A Kalaburgi-Bhalki –Udgir<br />

bus was stoned in Bhalki<br />

bus stand in the early<br />

morning hours on Monday.<br />

While another Bhalki<br />

and Bidar bus was stoned.<br />

NEKRTC authorities suspect<br />

protesters damaged<br />

them.<br />

According to NEKRTC<br />

sources, a bus at Aurad<br />

stop was stoned close to<br />

Ballari. The Aurad-Bengaluru<br />

bus was halted by<br />

protestor wee hours in the<br />

morning who threw stones<br />

at it.<br />

Bidar bus stand was<br />

empty in the morning excepting<br />

a couple of travelers.<br />

runs Metro bike services<br />

at five stations, to provide<br />

more number of vehicles<br />

at the station for the next<br />

two days”, U A Vasanth Rao,<br />

BMRCL spokesperson said.<br />

There would be about 80 extra<br />

bikes at Baiyappanahalli<br />

Metro station.<br />

was just about to land at its<br />

destination when orders<br />

were given out to the pilot<br />

from ground control to turn<br />

back due to bad weather<br />

conditions. On its way back<br />

to Chandigarh, the flight<br />

suddenly lost all contact<br />

with the ground control<br />

while flying over Rohtang<br />

pass.<br />

An extensive search was<br />

carried out hours after the<br />

ground control lost touch<br />

with the aircraft personnel.<br />

The search went on for<br />

months,but did not lead to<br />

any success. The fact that<br />

no remains had been found<br />

of such a big plane made<br />

the prospect of a crash<br />

seem unlikely.<br />

The Karnataka State team that won the 25th National Junior Swimming Championship<br />

was congratulated and felicitated by the Chief Minister at Krishna on Monday. Also<br />

present at the ceremony with the winning team were Karnataka Swimming Association<br />

members.<br />

PSI ROOPA BOOKED UNDER SECTION 309<br />

A day after she was<br />

discharge from hospital,<br />

Vijayanagar police sub-inspector<br />

Roopa Tambad has<br />

been booked for attempting<br />

suicide.<br />

A senior cop said on Sunday<br />

that Roopa is yet to be<br />

questioned as she is taking<br />

rest at her quarters in Vijayanagar.<br />

In spite of the fact that<br />

her relatives said that Roopa<br />

has been advised by<br />

doctors to take rest for one<br />

week before coming back<br />

to work, the office could be<br />

transferred and also will be<br />

held under suspension as<br />

she has been booked under<br />

KARNATAKA MILK REGULATORY<br />

COMMISSION TO BE FORMED<br />

The state government<br />

is all set to form the Karnataka<br />

Milk Regulatory<br />

Commission which will be<br />

on the lines of Karnataka<br />

Electricity Regulatory Commission<br />

(KERC).<br />

Milk consumers and<br />

dairy farmers will be regulated<br />

to ensure fair deal<br />

is made to customers and<br />

producers. The governing<br />

body will keep a check in<br />

order to protect the interest<br />

of the milk consumers.<br />

A Manju, Animal husbandry<br />

Minister said ,<br />

“There is no mechanism<br />

to seek the views of consumers.<br />

In contrast, KERC<br />

conducts public hearing<br />

to seek the opinion of the<br />

electricity consumers before<br />

taking any decision on<br />

the request for power tariff<br />

hike by ESCOMS. The milk<br />

regulatory commission will<br />

ensure level playing field<br />

for consumers and producers”.<br />

This commission has<br />

been in-force in eight states<br />

- Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,<br />

a criminal case, Section 309<br />

of the Indian Penal Code.<br />

Thirty-two-year-old<br />

Roopa had overdosed on<br />

tablets after a heated contention<br />

with the station Inspector<br />

over a row.<br />

Roopa, had told Assistant<br />

Commissioner of Police<br />

that provocation and<br />

mortification by inspector<br />

Sanjeev Gowda had provoked<br />

her to attempt suicide.<br />

Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bihar,<br />

Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra.<br />

Officials of the<br />

Animal Husbandry department<br />

have been instructed<br />

to study the functioning of<br />

the body in these states and<br />

submit a report.<br />

The state which has a<br />

daily production of around<br />

70 lakh liters of milk with<br />

around 23 lakh dairy<br />

ranchers, has chosen to act<br />

in the light of regular hikes<br />

in milk cost by Karnataka<br />

Milk Federation (KMF),<br />

which, as a rule, draws protests<br />

from buyers. KMF has<br />

milk co-agents in around<br />

22,000 towns in the state<br />

associated to it.<br />

WATER SUPPLY TO BE AFFECTED FOR TWO DAYS<br />

Water supply will be<br />

affected in a few areas on<br />

Tuesday and Wednesday<br />

as BWSSB is taking up<br />

maintenance work at Gubbalala<br />

and Hegganahalli<br />

ground-level repository<br />

close Ideal Homes, Rajarajeshwarinagar<br />

on Tuesday.<br />

Pumping of water from<br />

Cauvery IV Stage Phase I<br />

will be ceased for 12 hours<br />

from 8 a.m. on Tuesday.<br />

As indicated by a BWSSB<br />

discharge, water supply will<br />

be affected in Nagarabhavi,<br />

Hosahalli, Vijayanagar,<br />

RPC Layout, Chandra Layout,<br />

Govindarajanagar,<br />

Moodalapalya, Rajarajeshwarinagar,<br />

Ideal Homes,<br />

Kengeri and encompassing<br />

zones of the west division;<br />

J.P. Nagar, fourth, fifth, sixth,<br />

seventh and ninth stages,<br />

Jaraganahalli, Kottanur<br />

Dinne, Konanakunte, BEL<br />

Layout, Bannerghatta I and<br />

II arranges and encompassing<br />

territories, HSR Layout<br />

first to fourth and sixth and<br />

seventh areas, Parangipalya,<br />

Agara, Rajeev Gandhi<br />

Nagar, Mangammanapalya,<br />

Madinanagar, Somasundarapalya,<br />

Hosapalya, Bandepalya,<br />

Koramangala first<br />

to fourth squares, Chikkasandra,<br />

Kuduremukha<br />

Colony, KSRP Colony, Venkatapura,<br />

Bellanduru, and<br />

Ibluru of southeast division,<br />

and Okalipura first<br />

and second stages.<br />

Water supply will be<br />

influenced in part in Subramanyanagar,<br />

Mallasandara,<br />

Dasarahalli, and<br />

Bagalgunte.

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