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Crowd beats up constable driver for colliding with bike

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February 21, 2011

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Mangalore, February 21: It was a rough initiation in to the world of policing for IPS probationary officer Abhinav Khare who was nearly manhandled by an irate crowd after an official vehicle in which he was travelling collided with a motorcycle causing grievous injuries to two persons at Ballalbagh in the city here on Sunday. The crowd manhandled Akbar Basha, a District Armed Reserve police constable who was driving the vehicle when the accident took place.

The accident took place around 3.15pm when Akbar took a right turn at Ballalbagh junction median and crashed in to the oncoming motorcycle driven by Sandeep and Joel Crasta riding pillion. The impact of the accident was such that both were thrown off the motorcycle and Joel ended up on the steps of a nearby medical store in the basement of a building. A crowd that gathered at the spot manhandled Akbar and advanced menacingly on Abhinav.

Efforts by the probationary officer to explain the procedure to the crowd did not cut ice with them, some of whom were in an inebriated condition and who demanded that he summon the driver, who by then had left the spot with the victims to the district government hospital, and hand him over to them. Abhinav asked the crowd to register a complaint against the errant driver based on which the jurisdictional police would initiate action against him.

Abhinav reported to the DK rural police unit for his probationary training on Saturday.

The fact that he did not know the local language and the crowd did not understand Hindi, the language he spoke only complicated issues. It was the timely intervention by the media which saved Abhinav from the crowds ire and he later left the spot in another departmental vehicle, by which time senior police officials including Mangalore ACP Ravindra K G arrived.

ACP Ravindra assured the protesting crowd that action would be initiated against the departmental driver. In a related development, the Barke police have registered a case against the group that beat up Akbar on charges of preventing a public servant from discharging his duties and assaulting him while on duty and efforts are on to round them up. Traffic West police are separately investigating the case against Akbar, who allegedly caused the accident.


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Udupi, May 2: During the lockdown period the Department of Public Library digitised more books to the Karnataka Digital Public Library (KDPL).

According to the data released by the KDPL issued here on Saturday , as on April 29, 89,239 people from the State have already registered for the digital library.  From these 1,807 are from Dakshina Kannada district and 605 from the Udupi district.

The digital library already has a repository of 35,500 e-books, 4,800 videos, 59,980 e-journals and 1,112 items for children.

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June 5,2020

Bantwal, Jun 5: A very rare white python, which had entered a house at Kavalakatte in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada, was caught by snake catcher Snake Kiran on Friday handed over to the authorities of Pilikula Nisargadhama.

This extremely rare white coloured python known as Albino was seen in the house of one Naushad.

The occupants of the house as well as residents of the area were panicky over seeing it. 

Later a friend of Naushad informed Snake Kiran who caught it and handed over to the care of Pilikula as per the advice of forest officer Sridhar.

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Bengaluru, Apr 5: The COVID-19 related lockdown has substantially improved the air quality of Bengaluru, taking it from satisfactory level to good, a senior state pollution control board offcial said here on Sunday.

"During the course of the lockdown 19 problem, we reached good position from satisfactory.

It is between zero to 50 AQI (Air Quality Index) now. We have good quality air," the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board member secretary Basavaraj Patil told PTI.

He said the indicator for knowing the air quality in

"If the AQI is zero to 50 then it is good. If it is 50 to 100 then it is satisfactory. 101 to 150 is moderate and if it is 151 to 200, then it is poor, he explained.

Patil said as per available recrods, there has been a 60 to 65 per cent reduction in pollution during the lockdown.

The city railway station and Peenya industrial area, which used to be among the areas with highest AQI, has seen pollution levels come down significantly, he said.

Another major contributor of pollution was construction activities, which too had ground to a halt due to the lockdown, resulting in zero dust emission.

Patil opined that the improved air quality would boost the immune system of the people.

"It will improve the immune system of people, including those who have breathing problems like asthma," he said.

He asked the public to learn lessons from the lockdown and later switch to sustainable means of transport such as public transport, walking and cycling,.

"We can still reduce the pollution load even after the lockdown is over," Patil said.

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