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Journalist turned manager Smita Rao found hanging at home

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November 28, 2011

Bangalore, November 28: An assistant manager with Infosys Ltd was found hanging in her apartment in a suburb here, police said Monday.

Smita Rao, 32, was found hanging Monday in her apartment in the northeast suburb of Geddelihalli. Rao, a former journalist, leaves behind her husband Rohit.

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"Smita Rao was found hanging in her flat (E4) on the third floor of Mantri Splendour apartments. She was rushed to a private hospital but was declared dead. A case of unnatural death by hanging will be registered after we get the post-mortem report from the hospital," Hennur police station inspector G. Prabhakar told reporters.

According to Columbia Asia hospital general manager Jermy D’Souza, Smita was brought to the hospital in an ambulance from the flat but could not be treated as doctors found her dead when she was wheeled into the emergency ward.

“On receiving an emergency call from Mantri apartments at Geddelihalli, we rushed an ambulance to bring the victim at the earliest. Before our doctors could attend to her, she was found dead,” D’Souza said.

Smita, who joined Infosys in June 2010 was handling online content for the company’s official website, providing corporate updates and writing business stories and features.

Infosys did not respond to calls and its officials were unavailable for comment on the incident involving one of its employees.

Before shifting to the corporate world, Smita was deputy city editor at Bangalore Mirror, a popular tabloid in this tech hub, from July 2007 to September 2008 and a senior correspondent with The Times of India, Bangalore edition, from February 2004 to April 2007.

Prior to joining Infosys, she went to Milan, Italy, on a teaching fellowship for 10 months from October 2008 to July 2009.

In between, she worked as a television reporter with News 9, an English channel of the TV9 group.


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July 21,2020

Nagpur, July 21: In a shocking incident, an 11-year-old boy allegedly killed self in Maharashtra's Nagpur city after being reprimanded by his mother for buying a samosa, police said on Tuesday.

Veeru Natthu Sahu was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his home in Ganga Nagar in Gittikhadan area on Sunday night, an official said.

The deceased boy's family was struggling to make ends meet after their small business was hit because of the coronavirus-induced lockdown, he said.

The Class 7 student had taken Rs 10 from home without asking his mother and bought a samosa, which was then eaten by his elder brother, the official said.

The boy's mother scolded him for taking money without her permission and asked him to get the snack for himself, following which the distraught minor allegedly went into the kitchen and hanged himself using a saree, he said.

The Gittikhadan police have registered a case of accidental death in this regard, the official added.

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February 23,2020

Panaji, Feb 23: A MiG-29K aircraft crashed off Goa during a routine training sortie on Sunday morning, the Indian Navy said in a statement.

"The pilot ejected safely and has been recovered. An enquiry into the incident has been ordered," the statement said.

On November 16, a MiG-29K trainer flight had crashed after a bird hit, soon after it took off the Dabolim International airport, which functions out of the Indian Navy base INS Hansa.

Both pilots had managed to safely eject themselves to safety after both the engines of their jet failed.

According to data tabled in the recent budget session of the Goa Assembly, every ten days, at least one aircraft landing or taking off at Goa's Dabolim international airport faces dangers involving birds or stray dogs near the runway.

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April 5,2020

Nagpur, Apr 5: A 23-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Imambada area in Nagpur on Saturday due to financial distress, police said.

Nikhil Gavhane, who worked in a grocery shop, hanged himself as he had taken money from a person and was stressed over repayment, an official said.

"He was depressed since a week," the Imambada police station official said.

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