Karwar, February 6: As many as 16 college students and few others sustained injuries in a head on collision between a speeding KSRTC bus and a car near Khaire cross in Kumta taluk.
The collision occurred on Monday evening when the students were returning from the college through the bus which was moving to Kimani village in Kumta. The car was bound to Gangolli from Karwar.
The car driver Girish Vittal Mesta (32) of Gangolli, was also among the injured.
Thane, Mar 22: Eight men were arrested at Kalyan in the district on Sunday as they were found playing cricket during the 'Janata curfew' being observed to check the spread of coronavirus, police said.
They were playing cricket at Kala Talao Maidan in the afternoon, police said.
Police also detained a boy in this connection, an official said.
"Action was taken against them for defying the prohibitory orders issued by the Thane Police Commissionerate.
They also went against the 'Janata curfew' being observed to curb the spread of coronavirus," the police official said.
The Mahatma Phule Chowk Police Station registered an offence against the accused under IPC sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 290 (public nuisance).
They were also booked under the Maharashtra Police Act as well as the National Disaster Act 2005, the official said.
Thane, Jul 19: A 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing his wife after picking up a fight as he did not like the food she cooked, Thane police said.
Sachin Godane, a resident of Gaikwad Pada in Ambernath, locked his two children and an aunt in one room of the house on Friday afternoon and brutally beat up his wife Chandrakala (28) with a log and then strangled her, said Assistant Inspector JB Bhoyer of Shivajinagar police station.
Godane has been remanded in police custody for four days, he added.
Bengaluru, May 21:Tragedy struck an elderly migrant worker who was looking forward to joining his family as he died on reaching a nearby railway station to board a Shramik Special train to his home state Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.
The 69-year old man, who worked in a coffee estate in Chikkamagaluru, collapsed and died soon after getting down from a state-run KSRTC bus that brought him and others to the Chikkabanavara Railway station on Wednesday.
According to police, fellow labourers said he had been ailing for quite some time.
The cause of his death would be known only after a post-mortem, police added.
Karnataka government has been sending back thousands of migrant workers stranded in the state due to the COVID-19 lockdown by arranging the special trains.
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