Mangaluru: Youth turns crime fighter, catches chain snatcher after chase

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August 17, 2016

Mangaluru, Aug 17: A local youth, who gave chase and caught a notorious thief when he was trying to make getaway after robbing a woman of her gold chain in the heart of the city, was honoured by the police.

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The man, who exhibited enormous courage and helped an unknown woman at the cost of personal risk, was Muhammad Haris, a resident of Angaragundi near Baikampady in Mangaluru taluk.

The incident occurred on Monday when the entire country was celebrating India's 70th Independence Day. The woman, who works at Max showroom in City Centre Mall, was walking alone on the road leading to Mangaluru Central Railway station near Town Hall.

All of a sudden a man snatched her chain and started running. Mr Haris, who was riding his motorbike, witnessed the incident. He immediately stopped his motorbike and started chasing the miscreant.

Mr Haris managed to hold of him when he was about to jump a compound wall. Later, with the help of local people, the thief was handed over to the jurisdictional police. It is learnt that the accused had involved in several cases in the past and police were hunting for him.

Mr Haris was honoured at Mangaluru South Police Station on Tuesday for his bravery. Appreciating the efforts of the youth, Inspector Belliyappa said public can play a crucial in the prevention of crimes if they join hands with the police. SI Muhammed Shareef and other police personnel were present.

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Naveen
 - 
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

he is the brother of mangalore information officer Khader shah, i think.

Viren Kotian
 - 
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Good boy.. keep it up.. but don't exchange phone numbers ok??

SYED
 - 
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

THIS IS CALLED HUMANITY......PLEASE DONT MIX THIS INCIDENT WITH RELIGION....WELL DONE ASHRAF HATS OFF TO YOU..

PROUD TO BE MANGALUREAN....

ahmed
 - 
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

something fishy is going around on this story... so I am confused with this story

Hashim Ali
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Ma Sha Allha... Job well Done... Dear Haris Bhai,
He is the One Brother of My Close Friend he is Also well Social Worker,
KEEP IT UP BRO...

ashraf
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Mashallah... Well done Haris ,You gave a good lesson for humanity, when someone needs help caste,religion,gender will not come into consideration its only helping each other what it counts.. UR PERFECT EXAMPLE FOR BROTHERHOOD... :) ALLAH GIVE U SAFE HEALTH

A.Mangalore
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

The lady may be from a middle class or poor family, that is the reason she may be working as a sales girl. A gold chain may be for her a big asset, it is her hard earned saving money.
so good job done by Haris. Keep it up good work.
couple of Mangaloreans we may find thieves, robbers but 95% of Mangaloreans are good hearted people, who always help each other whenever any difficultly arrives to one another.

Moral Wakes
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

If every Mangaloreans do this act then the some particular groups who are jobless will need to find a respectful job. there are lot of looters who loot people in the name of a religion...

Thanzeel
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

BRAVE WORK, APPRECIATED!!!

#7, ALTAF, DOHA, WHY U SEEING EVERY ACTIVITY IN COMMUNAL ANGLE????

ahmed
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

chain snatcher trained by job less chaddi & sanghis how can they tolerate my dear brother althaf doh....

Sameer
 - 
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Robbery Jihad.. Some may be not happy by his bravery act..

Anwar
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

This is how a Muslim should be.This is also Jihad

Mohammed
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Where is Thief Photo?

Althaf
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Muslim guy helping Hindu Lady.. Chaddi & Sanghis can not tolerate this.

Abdul RahmanDuniya
 - 
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Excellent work by Mohammed Haris . keep it up

Ahmed
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

Good job Haris, you are brave.

The name Haris meaning itself is Guardian or Guard.

May Allah bless you

Pranith
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

great example for those who Entertained in this kind of situation.

Jeevan
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

wow we must encourage this, govt should give the reward for his work so more people can come forward to help in these type situation.

PriyankaMax
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

because of this people we can roam freely in public. keep it up

Bhavana
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Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

appreciable good work haris.

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May 9,2020

Bengaluru, May 9: The bar owners in Karnataka, while welcoming the state government's decision to allow takeaway sales of liquor, said that the move is not going to benefit them much.

Venkatesh Babu, a Bengaluru-based bar owner said, "We welcome this move, our bar was closed for two months due to coronavirus crisis. We have been facing losses since then."

"The state government has told us to sell our stocks at maximum retail price (MRP). It is difficult for us to manage as the rent is high and we also have to pay salaries," he added.

The owner of Pingara Bar and Restaurant, Shivamogga said, "The government has said that is for parcel only and that too at MRP. There is no benefit to our business. We are only clearing the existing stock. They have given us time till May 17 and are not even giving us fresh stock. We are only allowed to sell what we have already."

Karnataka government in its Friday order allowed restaurants, pubs and bars to sell liquor at retail prices from May 9 till May 17, the day the third phase of lockdown is slated to end.

Earlier, the government had allowed the opening of liquor shops in order to mobilise revenue.

However, bars, pubs, restaurants were ordered to remain closed amid the COVID-19 lockdown.

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April 18,2020

Ballari, Apr 18: Hosapete town in Ballari district of Karnataka gasped in disbelief as it turned out that 11 members of one single family are positive for the coronavirus.

The whole town has been declared a containment zone and is being surveilled 24X7.

The family includes seven members whose tests returned positive today, three who tested Covid-19 positive on March 30 and one other member subsequently.

The seven who tested positive today had been negative when they were earlier tested along with the others.

They have all now been shifted to isolation wards at the District Hospital in Ballari.

Including this family of 11, Ballari has 13 positive cases so far, with one case each reported from Ballari and Siraguppa towns.

Startled by this sudden upsurge from Hosapete, the district administration has set up 16 fever clinics to screen people and six COVID care centres to treat positive cases. There are two dedicated COVID hospitals, one at Ballari and another at Torangallu in Sandur.

A team of psychological counsellors have been put on duty to provide support to the patients at the isolation centres.

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Media Release
February 14,2020

Veteran journalist P. Sainath has said that the nation is in a crisis. And this crisis is not limited to just the rural area. It has become a national crisis at various areas such as agriculture, education, economy, job creation etc.

He was delivering the endowment lecture on the topic ‘Indian democracy at the post-liberalization and post-truth era’ at Media Manthan 2020 organized by the PG department of journalism and mass communication at St Aloysius College (Autonomous). 

Mr Sainath said that the many policies adopted in the 90s led to India becoming unusually unequal. Referring to the speech Ambedkar had made at the Constituent Assembly while handing over the draft of the Constitution, Mr Sainath said, “Ambedkar had warned about the weakness of Indian democracy that liberty without equality allows the supremacy of a few over the multitude. Liberty, equality and fraternity must be kept together as we cannot have one without the other.” 

Mr Sainath stated that the agrarian crisis was no longer about the loss of productivity, employment or about farmer suicide; it was a societal, civilizational crisis. Commenting on the lopsided policies such as cow-slaughter ban, he explained how cow slaughter ban had adversely affected many industries due to their interdependency. While Muslims who slaughtered cows were rendered helpless, the cattle traders who were mostly OBCs lost their earnings as the cattle prices crashed. An important industry like Kolhapur sandals industry in Maharashtra went bankrupt as a result of the cow slaughter ban in Maharashtra. He said the policymakers had no idea how the rural industries were interconnected. Demonetisation too devastated the rural economy as 98 percent of rural transactions happen through cash. 

Mr Sainath also spoke about the crisis of inequality which affects the Dalits and the Adivasis far more than anyone else as 90 percent of the rural households take home less than Rs 10,000/- per month. “Women are yet another group whose labour is never counted in the gross domestic product. Women and girls globally do unpaid work which amounts to about 12.5 billion working hours per year. Monetarily speaking, this is worth 10.8 trillion dollars,” Mr Sainath added. 

Speaking about the crisis of jobs Mr Sainath said that major companies were laying off employees just to create more profits for the investors and the adoption of artificial intelligence in the industry would further destroy millions of jobs.

Rector of St Aloysius College Institutions Fr Dionysius Vaz SJ, Principal Dr (Fr) Praveen Martis SJ, HOD of Journalism and Mass Communication department Dr (Fr) Melwyn Pinto SJ were present.

‘Veerappan and Vijay Mallya’s business models are interesting!’

Addressing the gathering during his endowment lecture on Friday, Mr Sainath made an interesting comment on the so called ‘revenue model’. “Whenever I visit IIMs and IITs for lectures on my PARI project, the students there ask me what my revenue model for my project is. I tell them that I do not have a revenue model. In fact, journalism does not begin with a revenue model. Gandhiji, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh were all great journalists. But they did not have a revenue model,” Mr Sainath said.

On a lighter note, he said that the best revenue model that he liked was that of forest brigand Veerappan and liquor baron Vijay Mallya. “Veerappan ruled the forest for forty years and from the top ministers to the villagers he could dictate terms and liver royally. Similarly, Mallya’s revenue model was to steal the banks and run away abroad and live like a king,” Mr Sainath added.

Journalism is not and can never be a business. It is a calling, he opined. While newspaper can be a business, television can be a business, journalism per se cannot be reduced to a business. “Unfortunately today, journalists are recruited on a contract basis and they have no bargaining power; and there are no unions to fight for their cause. Hence, they are at the mercy of the corporate media houses for their survival and are made to write stories that cannot be called journalism,” Mr Sainath said.

Answering a question as to the pressures he faced as a journalist, he said that external pressures from the government or others could be very well handled. It is the internal pressures from once own media house that journalists find it difficult to manage.

 

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