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Heggade, Justice Hegde, Kalam among 27 achievers honoured by Sitaram Jindal Foundation

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February 25, 2012

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New Delhi, February 25: Sitaram Jindal Foundation has honoured 27 Outstanding Selfless Workers, including Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, Justice Santosh Hedge, Dharmsthla Veerendra Heggade and Anna Hazare, by bestowing Jindal Prize & S R Jindal Prize at a glittering Felicitation Ceremony held in the Capital, on Thursday.

Those honoured included individuals and Institutions who are beacons of selfless service to the society with prize money of Rs 7.30 Crores.

Sri Sri Ravishankar of Art of Living honoured the awardees. Tejendra Khanna, Lt. Governor of Delhi was the guest of honour who also gave away prizes to winners.

S R Jindal Prize (Honorary) was awarded to Lala Mange Ram Agarwal for his exceptional selfless service to society.

Five S R Jindal Prizes worth Rs 25 Lakhs each for Rural Development & Poverty Alleviation were bestowed on Anna Hazare; Sankara Eye Care Institutions India, Coimbatore; Utthan, Allahabad; Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission, Barrackpore; and jointly to Dr G Gopal Reddy, Agriculture Scientist, Nalgonda, AP and Lok Biradari, Prakalp (Started by Baba Amte on 1973).

Dr Sitaram Jindal has set aside Rs 125 Crores to form a corpus of funds for creating a perpetual Prize, to honour the deserving, year after year. Such perpetual financial stability of Prize Schemes is uncommon except in rare cases like the Nobel Prize.

Nine S R Jindal Prizes for Crusade against Corruption worth Rs 10 lakhs each were given to Tehelka; Manish Sisodia, New Delhi; Dr. Rajinder K Singla, Chandigarh; Manjunath Shanmugam (Posthumous); Ramesh Verma, Hissar; Shehla Masood (Posthumous), Bhopal; jointly to Dr Ashok Khemka, IAS, Chandigarh & Sanjiv Chaturvedi, IFS, Haryana; jointly to Rajnikant Borele, Maharashtra & Ajay B Bose, Central Railway, Mumbai; and jointly to Pawan Kumar Chaudhary, Patna & Atul Kumar, Kolkata.

Three Gallantry Awards were also posthumously given to Tuka Ram Omble, Mohan Chand Sharma and Maj. Sandeep Unnikrishnan for their supreme sacrifice in the fight against terrorism, stated in a press release.

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January 30,2020

New Delhi, Jan 30: A terrorist opened fire at people peacefully protesting against the contentious citizenship amendment act (CAA) near the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi this afternoon, causing chaos and panic in the area.

One person has been injured. In a video, the terrorist, wearing a black jacket and a pair of white trousers, can be seen walking on a road, waving a gun as he shouts "who wants Azadi, come I'll shoot you. Then he says, "Yeh lo aazadi (here's your freedom)" and opens fire injuring a student in front of police.

A video of the attack that is being shared widely on social media also showed the assailant also shouting the 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan and warning protesters to chant 'Vande Mataram' if they want to stay in India. The injured student, Shadab, was hit by the bullet in his arm and has been admitted to the Holy Family hospital in Jamia Nagar.

His condition is stated to be stable. The incident took place near the hospital when a protest march was being taken out by students. Students said that the attacker tried to hijack the peaceful protest and threatened the anti-CAA agitators.

The shooting comes in the aftermath of communally charged, hateful and violence provoking rhetoric by several BJP leaders in the run-up to the assembly elections in Delhi.

Junior finance minister Anurag Thakur had on Monday led chants of ‘shoot the traitors’ at a poll rally in north Delhi’s Rithala. The minister prompted "desh ke gaddaron ko..." to which the crowd responded "...goli maaro sa***n ko". The chant translates to "shoot down the traitors who betray the country". Protesters against the CAA and the NRC have often been dubbed anti-national by members of the ruling BJP.

After Thakur’s hate speech, a man carrying a gun was also caught at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, the venue of mega protests. The man had walked into the protest ground and allegedly brandished the weapon till he was overpowered by the surrounding protesters, eyewitnesses said.

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August 8,2020

Mangaluru, Aug 8: As visuals of the Air India Express flight crash at Kozhikode international airport emerge, one cannot help but be reminded of an eerily similar and unfortunate accident that occurred a decade ago. The August 7, 2020 tragedy brought back memories of the 2010 crash.

It was on May 22, 2010 that an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 flight from Dubai to Mangaluru over shot the runway while landing at Bajpe airport and fell into a cliff. Of the 160 passengers and 6 crew members on board, 158 were killed (all crew members and 152 passengers) and only 8 survived.

Even back then, the plane had split into two. The crash has been termed as one of India's worst aviation disasters.

The final conversations between Air traffic control (ATC) and the pilot prior to the landing showed no indication of any distress.

Like the Mangaluru accident, Karipur crash too happened when the flight was attempting to land.

The captain of the aircraft which crashed at Mangaluru, Z Glucia, was an experienced pilot with 10,000 hours of flying experience and had 19 landings at the Mangalore airport. Co-pilot S S Ahluwalia, with 3,000 hours of flying experience had as many as 66 landings at this airport. Both the pilot and co-pilot were among the victims.

An investigation into the accident later found that the cause of the accident was the captain’s failure to discontinue an ‘unstabilised approach’ and his persistence to continue with the landing, despite three calls from the First Officer to ‘go-around’.

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February 26,2020

Mysuru, Feb 26: Twenty-nine students of the Government Primary School fell sick after consuming milk supplied at the school on Wednesday morning at Kiranguru village, in Hanagodu hobli, in the hunsur taluk in the district.

Police said the students were immediately rushed to the primary health centre in Hanagodu and provided first aid.

Tahsildar and Police personnel visited the health centre and inquired about the health of the students. "All the students are responding to the treatment," sources said.

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