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Kids injured as bomb prematurely explodes in RSS functionary’s house; bomb-making materials seized

coastaldigest.com web desk
March 24, 2019

Kannur, Mar 24: A country-made bomb, which was hidden inside the compound of a house of a local RSS functionary, exploded prematurely at Naduvil under the Kudiyanmala police station limits in Kannur district of Kerala yesterday injuring at least two children.

The injured have been identified as Gokul, 7, son of RSS functionary M. Shibu, and his relative Kajinraj, 12, son of Kumar. They had come to their relative Shibu’s house where the incident occurred around 1.30 p.m.

The police said the children who suffered serious burns were admitted to a private hospital here.

According to the police, the crude bomb that was hidden beneath a heap of rubble on the compound of the house exploded when the two children were searching for some materials for making a bird cage.

“As soon as we got the information of the blast, we rushed to the spot and raided the house of Shibu,” Kudiyanmala sub-inspector P Pramod said when contacted over phone.

The police unearthed bomb-making materials, including 3 kg of aluminium powder, 600 gm of gunpowder and fuse wire, as also seven swords, a hand axe and an iron rod, he said.

The police suspect that Shibu’s house is being used as a place for hiding bombs, bomb-making materials and weapons. The police strengthened the vigil in the area in the wake of the incident.

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Tangocharlie
 - 
Monday, 25 Mar 2019

NIA might be busy in campaigning for BJP. 

kumar
 - 
Sunday, 24 Mar 2019

RSS peo0ple are busy nowadays making bombs and ammunitions to create riots at the time of election to make benefit to bjp during election.  Police should raid every office of RSS and homes + shops + godown of RSS members to ammunitions + bombs.  RSS is supply these things all over India.   We smell there will be big scale of disturbance before election.  EC should take note of this seriously. 

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March 28,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 28: A case has been registered against an Infosys employee in Bengaluru for a shocking social media post urging people to "go out and sneeze" and spread the highly contagious COVID-19 virus that has infected over 800 people across the country and claimed 19 lives.

"Let's join hands, go out and sneeze with open mouth in public. Spread the virus," the man wrote on Facebook.
"A case has been registered against the person. Further investigation on. Looking forward to get adequate support from your end during investigation," Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, Bengaluru city tweeted by tagging along a tweet by Infosys.
Taking congnisance of the post by its employee, the Infosys said the post was "against the code of conduct and its commitment to responsible social sharing".
"Infosys has completed its investigation on the social media post by one of its employees and we believe that this is not a case of mistaken identity," the company said in a statement on Twitter.
"The social media post by the employee is against Infosys' code of conduct and its commitment to responsible social sharing. Infosys has a zero tolerance policy towards such acts and has accordingly, terminated the services of the employee," the statement added.

Earlier this month, the IT firm had vacated one of its buildings in Bengaluru after an employee was suspected to be infected.

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January 12,2020

Mangalore, Jan 12: Thieves reportedly stole around 70,000 cash from a MESCOM ATP machine located at Chembugudde in Thokkottu, Police said here on Sunday.

Police said that the theft took place in the MESCOM sub-division office at Chembugudde. It was said that the thieves broke open the room where the MESCOM customers bill payment machine was located and stole 70,000 rupees cash from the ATP machine.

This machine had nine lakh rupees cash. The amount was reported to have been transferred at around 1500 hrs on Saturday.

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August 3,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 3: A building of Bengaluru's civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), on Broadway Road in Shivajinagar, is being developed into a COVID dedicated hospital with 200 beds, Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Sunday.

The hospital will be functional in two weeks, said Sudhakar.

"BBMP building in Broadway Road is converted into Covid hospital. Setting up of infrastructure like beds, ventilators, oxygen etc is underway.

All necessary staff for this hospital including doctors, nurses and paramedical staff have been already deployed and the work is on fast track," Sudhakar tweeted.

He also thanked Infosys foundation and it's Chairperson Sudha Murthy for immediately responding to government's request and providing infrastructure for this hospital.

In a tweet, Sudhakar thanked the doctors for their service to combat COVID-19 in the state.
"These doctors have extended helping hand in these corona times without any expectations. I salute their spirit of service and professionalism," Minister said in a tweet.

According to the Union Health Ministry, there are 1,34,819 COVID-19 cases in the state. 

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