Air Warriors' vroom on city roads

September 23, 2011

Mangalore September 23: A motorcycle expedition flagged off from Mysore with twin goals of celebrating the golden jubilee year of 2 Air Force Selection Board (2AFSB) and to encourage youth to join the Indian Air Force reached Mangalore on Thursday.

The team of 16 'Air warriors' from the unit rode into St Aloysius College and disbursed handbills with the message to join IAF in order to realise a life quality and adventure.

Briefing media person, Wing Commander Vinay Panthari said 15 air warriors were handpicked and trained for the gruelling expedition which aims to cover 5,000 Km in the southern states of Indian. The motorcycle expedition flagged off from Mysore at 12.30 pm on September 21 and reached Bangalore.

On the Thursday the team set out at 6 am and touched Mangalore at about 4.30 pm. Friday and later in Mumbai, Pune, Hyderbad, West Bengal, Chennai, Puducherry, Rameshwaram, Kanyakumari, Trivandrum, Cochin, Coimbatore and Mysore. The expedition which has already covered 900 km will end on October 6, he informed.

While stopping for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the team makes it a point to disburse handbills motivating youth to join the Air Force. Before retiring at night, they make it a point to increase awareness about IAF among youth. Wing Commander Vinay Panthari who joined IAF 10 years ago has completed 2,700 hours of flying.

He also shared a hair-raising experienced of having flown from New Delhi to Guwahati through turbulent weather and safely landing the plane.

The team also comprises four warriors from Karnataka who joined the unit about four years ago.

Ravindra, Putte Gowda from Mysore, Mahesh and Baby from Bangalore expressed happiness on being part of the expedition.

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May 27,2020

Kasaragod, May 27: In a tragic incident, two persons, who were brothers, died of asphyxiation while trying to rescue a calf that fell in their well at Bandhiyod near here on Wednesday.

Police sources said the elder brother Narayanan (50) entered into the well first to save the calf that fell in the well early in the morning.

His brother Sankaran (40) also followed suit after he noticed his brother fainting deep down the well. However, he also fainted inside the well.

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May 11,2020

Bengaluru, May 11: Ten new positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of infections in the state to 858, the Health department said on Monday.

"Ten new positive cases have been reported from last evening to this noon... Till date 858 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed. This includes 31 deaths and 422 discharges," the department said in its mid-day situation update. 

The ten new cases include- three from Davangere, two each from Bidar and Bagalkote, one each from Kalaburagi, Shiggavi in Haveri and Vijayapura. Seven cases are men, three are women.

While most cases are contacts of patients already tested positive, one each are with travel history to Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

One person's contact tracing is underway. 

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January 19,2020

New Delhi, Jan 19: Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday asserted that every state assembly has the constitutional right to pass a resolution and seek the amended Citizenship Act's withdrawal, but if the law is declared constitutional by the Supreme Court then it will be problematic to oppose it.

His remarks came a day after he had said there is no way a state can deny the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) when it is already passed by the Parliament.

"I believe the CAA is unconstitutional. Every State Assembly has the constitutional right to pass a resolution and seek its withdrawal. When and if the law is declared to be constitutional by the Supreme Court then it will be problematic to oppose it. The fight must go on!" Sibal said in a tweet.

His remarks on the CAA at the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF) on Saturday had caused a flutter as several non-BJP governments, including Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra, have voiced their disagreement with the CAA as well as National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).

"If the CAA is passed no state can say 'I will not implement it'. It is not possible and is unconstitutional. You can oppose it, you can pass a resolution in the Assembly and ask the central government to withdraw it.

"But constitutionally saying that I won't implement, it is going to be problematic and going to create more difficulties," said the former minister of law and justice.

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