Hoax bomb call on Republic Day creates panic in Mangaluru

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January 26, 2016

Mangaluru, Jan 26: A teenager was reportedly detained by the Mangaluru city police for allegedly making a hoax call at the police control room, claiming that a bomb was planted by terrorists in the city on Republic Day.

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The police control room received the call at about 1 p.m. from a landline number of a shop. The Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad and policemen rushed and sanitised the whole market area. After a search for nearly two hours, the call was found to be a hoax.

Meanwhile, the police team went to the grocery shop in the Kankanady market area from where the call had been made. The owner of the shop told the police that the call was made by a boy from Ullal who had come to deliver eggs.

When confronted, the boy reportedly told the shop owner that he had made the call on a casual note and ran away. The police have traced the boy in Ullal. While the boy claims to be 17, the police are verifying his school records to know whether it was true.

The Mangaluru Police Commissioner M. Chandra Sekhar said a case has been registered against the boy for a non-cognisable offence. As per law, further action against the boy will be taken as per the direction of the jurisdictional court.

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rikaz
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Tuesday, 26 Jan 2016

Its very bad, calling police giving them unwanted tensions....at the same time public has to suffer....sever punishment must be given to the guilty...otherwise similar kind of incident would happen now and than....

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July 2,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 2: Mangaluru BJP Corporator Manohar Shetty, who entered a manhole to clean a drain, said that he did it to avoid waterlogging ahead of monsoon as people were facing several problems for the past few years.

"In my ward, there is a rainwater drain at Kadri Kambla junction and for the past few years, there was a waterlogging problem due to trash water used to collect and vehicles used to find it difficult to pass in that area," Shetty said.

"Since there was a lot of trash it had to be cleared to avoid waterlogging. We changed our dresses, and then I along with my three party workers entered manhole and cleared the trash," he said.

The Mangaluru BJP Corporator further said that it was not a publicity stunt, and he cleaned the drain to solve the problem of people. "During elections, I had promised people to get the drain cleaned. Since monsoon was coming; something had to be done; we did not do it for publicity but to solve a problem," he said.

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May 5,2020

Mangaluru, May 5: Even as the coastal city entered third phase of lockdown to contain the spread of covid-19, a wild bison was spotted in Mangaluru today. 

According to sources, local residents at Hathill area and Mannagudda area spotted bison. It is not sure whether it was the same bison or two different bison.

Some reports claimed that it was spotted in Kudroli area too triggering panic among people. 

With the help of local residents and police, the forest officials managed to catch the bison around noon. 

It is assumed that the wild animal must have come to the city as there was less movement of people and vehicle due to lockdown for past few weeks.

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June 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 5: An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Karnataka on Friday morning while another with a magnitude of 4.7 was felt in Jharkhand.

The tremors were felt in Hampi (Karnataka) and Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).

According to NCS, the aftershocks were felt at 6:55 am in both the places today.

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