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Mangaluru: Honest auto driver Pratap Shetty returns gold worth Rs 5 lakh

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August 26, 2016

Managluru, Aug 26: A 35-year-old autorickshaw driver was rewarded by the Mangaluru City Police on Saturday for returning a bag of gold jewellery that a woman had accidentally left behind in his vehicle.

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Deepti, wife of Prashant, a software engineer in Bengaluru came to Mangaluru this morning. After alighting at KSRTC bus stand, she hired an auto-rickshaw and travelled to Kulai neighbourhood to attend a wedding ceremony.

Deepti had kept one of her bags in the space behind the auto's seat. It contained gold ornaments worth Rs 5 lakh. While alighting, she forgot about the bag and the auto left.

Later, the passenger realised her folly and started to weep. She lost all hope of recovering the money as he hadn't noted the vehicle number.

But she was in for a surprise. She received a call from a police officer after couple of hours. The caller asked her to collect her bag from the officer of Mangaluru City Police Commissioner.

In fact the auto-rickshaw driver, Pratap Shetty, had noticed the abandoned bag of valuables after returning from Kulai and handed it over to Mangaluru North Police Station. He is the son of Jayaram Shetty, a resident of Jeppu Kudupady in Mangaluru.

The Police Commissioner M Chandra Sekhar invited Mr Shetty to his office and gifted him Rs 5,000 with an appreciation.

"We decided to reward this honest man so that it serves as an incentive to other auto drivers to return baggage forgotten by their passengers," said a senior cop.

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Ahmed
 - 
Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Good deeds will not go wasted.. you will be rewarded by the one who Created for your honesty...
ISLAM says when we die only our DEEDs will be with us (Wealth, Property, Family or Friends will NOT accompany us) and upon our deeds we will be granted Heaven or Hell which is ETERNAL...
Do more Good deeds and be successful in the eyes of God...

If someone have more evil... Dont be sad , God is most merciful. Just repent honestly and promise never to commit again and live a good life with more good deeds.. God likes honest repentance... God know what's in your heart and He will judge with justice.

Recognise the TRUE God, U will be blessed.

Abbu Beary
 - 
Friday, 26 Aug 2016

That's the culture of people of kudla. today you won million hearts Mr Pratap Shetty. God bless you.

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July 25,2020

Hubballi,  Jul 25: South Western Railway (SWR) inducted seven lady sub-inspectors (SI) in the Railway Protection Force (RPF), in a first, on Friday. Three more women SI undergoing training in Lucknow are expected to join SWR soon.

According to the Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of SWR, the inducted sub-inspectors are part of 164 women SI cadets who passed out of the RPF training centre in Moula Ali, Hyderabad, after a rigorous training of nine months. They will take care of the security of railway passengers, Railway property, and Railway premises, after resuming their duties.

They will also be responsible for giving special care to the vulnerable sections of society, women, and children while discharging their duties, the CPRO said.

The CPRO also informed that the newly admitted female SIs will be posted to major stations on SWR for regular duties on completion of their two months of practical training over the Zone. Further 120 ladies are undergoing constables training for various training centres across India.

This move is considered a step forward into women empowerment in Railways.

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August 8,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 8: Congress is confused on the Ram Mandir issue and in dilemma to take a firm stand fearing loss of Muslim or Hindu votes, according to BJP leader and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi.

"Congress opposed BJP's stand on constructing Ram Mandir in Ayodya, it called Lord Ram fictional and even decided to break the Ramsetu. Now, Congressmen are speaking the other way. Congress cannot think beyond vote bank politics which is in its DNA itself. Congressmen think that they are born to be in power," he said while speaking to media persons. 

He said that BJP is all for constructing a grand Ram Mandir peacefully and legally, due to its conviction and not for politics. Same was the case with the revocation of Article 370 for Jammu & Kashmir. Anti-national activities have comparatively come down now. 

Some people do not want everything going smoothly in the country, and Congress and Asaduddin Owaisi are among them, Joshi opined, adding that the Congress is merely frustrated.

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May 24,2020

Bengaluru, May 24: Karnataka has conducted 2.03 lakh tests across the 57 Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) COVID-19 testing labs till Sunday morning, said the state Minister of Medical Education Dr K Sudhakar.

He informed that the state has doubled the number of tests in just 16 days after clocking 1 lakh tests on May 8.

"After clocking 1 lakh tests on May 8, we have doubled the number of tests in just 16 days. As on this morning, we conducted 2.03 lakh tests across our 57 ICMR COVID-19 testing labs. I congratulate doctors and lab technicians on this achievement," Sudhakar tweeted.

As many as 1,743 people have been detected positive for coronavirus in the state, of which 597 have been cured and discharged and 41 have succumbed to the infection, as per the Union Health Ministry. 

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