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Bengaluru | Gas leak in GAIL pipeline near IT hub sparks panic; traffic diverted

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October 29, 2018

Bengaluru, Oct 29: Panic gripped residents and commuters following a leakage in Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) pipeline near IT hub at Whitefield in the city on Monday.

According to Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Harishekaran, there was an accidental damage to GAIL pipeline during Metro work on ITPL main road in Whitefield. 

Immediately an experts’ team from GAIL and Karnataka Fire Safety rushed to the spot and plugged the leak to restore normal vehicular flow.

Road traffic was diverted via Devasandra main road and Outer Ring Road to proceed towards Marathalli to reach Whitefield.

BMTC, other bus traffic and vehicles bound for the International airport via the alternate route coming in this area was also diverted in the morning, he added.

Managing Director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) Ajay Seth said: "In order to prevent any such reoccurrence, BMRCL is obtaining gas network alignment from GAIL in all metro reaches. We will superimpose them with metro alignment and ensure the removal of any potential conflict before taking up any construction," he said. 

This is the second such incident as a similar incident occurred in Mahadevapura on October 22 and a complaint was filed with the Mahadevapura police station.

Bengaluru Traffic Police has issued the following advisory for vehicles moving around Whitefield and towards the Kempegowda International Airport.

1. Traffic moving towards ITPL Main road to reach Whitefield are advised to use Devasandra main rd or use ORR to proceed towards Marathalli and reach White field 

2. Traffic moving towards City from Whitefield are advised to proceed towards Graphite from Hoodi proceed towards Kundalalhalli towards city via Marathalli.

3. KIAL Bound traffic is advised to use Devasandra road or travel towards Graphite-Kundalahalli- Marathalli - on to ORR

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suresh, Never.. politicians and authority will not learn anything and if any tragedy occured then they will blame each other. Loss only for people.

Suresh
 - 
Monday, 29 Oct 2018

Major tragedy will occur soon. then the authority will learn

Sruti Kotian
 - 
Monday, 29 Oct 2018

Foreign countries may successfully done similar projects. They may have done with lot of security measures. Indian politicians hardly think about safety of people. They just wanted to loot money.

Vinod
 - 
Monday, 29 Oct 2018

Gail project is not safe. should abandon

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June 26,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 26: Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar on Thursday suggested that the cost of building and installing a new statue of Nada Prabhu Kempegowda in the Bengaluru airport should be borne by Kempegowda international airport (KIAL).

Shivakumar wrote to Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and welcomed the decision of erecting a statute of Bengaluru founder Kempegowda at KIAL but he also suggested that the chief minister should not spend state government's money on this.

He said that the Karnataka government has done many favours to airport authority earlier.

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March 8,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 8: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has identified three more locations to open Viral Research Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDL) including in Mysuru, Hassan, and Shivamogga in Karnataka.

According to a statement issued here on Sunday, these laboratories will start functioning shortly in Mysuru Medical College and Research Institute, Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, and Shivamogga Institute of Medical Sciences. Besides, the ICMR has also identified sample collection centres in Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Science in Ballari and Kalaburgi Institute of Medical Sciences.

B G Prakash, State Joint Director (Communicable Diseases), said that the new Laboratories will help to ease the load on the two designated laboratories in Bengaluru. Currently, the virology laboratory in Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and the NIV branch in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases are doing COVID-19 tests in Karnataka.

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May 29,2020

New Delhi, May 29: Opining that there is no harm in importing ideas from abroad Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an affiliate of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has suggested that India should take a cue from Pakistan and turn the “locust threat” into “chicken feed.

In an interview, Ashwani Mahajan, national co-convener of Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) said: “I saw an article which shows that Pakistan has turned the locust threat into an opportunity by converting it into chicken feed”

“If there is a good idea originating from anywhere, we should be open to exploring such ideas. We should adopt good ideas. There is no harm in that,” he added.

He also shared the article on Twitter and wrote: “Pakistan turns locust threat into chicken feed. Need to understand the idea and replicate it in India.”

The article stated “an innovative pilot project in Pakistan’s Okara district offers a sustainable solution in which farmers earn money by trapping locusts that are turned into high-protein chicken feed by animal feed mills”.

“It was the brainchild of Muhammad Khurshid, a civil servant in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, and Johar Ali, a bio-technologist from the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council,” according to the article.

Both Pakistan and India have been hit by locust attacks. These are desert locusts, which is one of the 12 species of short-horned grasshoppers. Swarms can comprise billions and travel up to 130 km in a day.

India has been battling the locust attacks with moderate success since December. However, the onset of monsoon could bring more trouble.

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