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Bomb hoax caller held; Police say he is not a 'terrorist'

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September 26, 2012

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Bangalore, September, 26: The police on Tuesday arrested a 21-year-old post-graduate student, who made the hoax bomb call to Forum Mall, Koramangala, in the city.

Mangesh Ahirwal, a resident of Gollarahalli near Electronics City and a native of Jhansi, is the arrested.

Immediately after arresting him police informed media that the youth was not a terrorist. “He was inspired by Bollywood film Mumbai Meri Jaan," said DCP (West) in-charge of South Division SN Siddramappa.

Cinegoers at the PVR Cinemas in Forum Mall, had strange guests amidst the show on Monday afternoon, as the police dog squad and bomb disposal squads scanned for explosives in the cinemas.

The shows were interrupted and the public sent out for the cops to sanitise the premises of explosives, if any. However, no explosives were found.

An unidentified person called up the city police control room around 3:20 pm on Monday and warned about explosives planted at the PVR Cinemas. The City police immediately rushed bomb disposal squad and the sniffer dog squad to check for any explosives.

The police disrupted the afternoon shows at the cinemas, sent out the viewers and conducted a thorough exercise to check for any explosives. After an hour-long exercise, the threat call was confirmed to be a hoax. The police also checked for explosives in the mall. Finally, they declared the mall safe and the activities returned to normalcy by the evening.

Tracing the phone call, the Adugodi police picked up Mangesh Ahirwal from his residence where he was staying along with two of his friends. The police, however, gave a clean chit to his roommates after questioning both of them about their possible involvement.

The Police said Mangesh Ahirwal, who is pursuing his postgraduate research course at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a premier R and D organisations under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, was inspired by a Bollywood movie and had allegedly made the hoax call.

The accused, who claimed he was having a bad day, confessed that he was inspired by the Hindi flick Mumbai Meri Jaan, where actor Irrfan Khan makes similar hoax calls after he is insulted, police said.

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May 10,2020

Mangaluru/ Bengaluru, May 10: Nearly 11,000 non-resident Kannadigas who are seeking repatriation from various countries across the world should be ready to shell out a huge amount for a two-week private quarantine in Karnataka before reaching their home.

The Kannadigas stranded in Gulf countries including UAE and Saudi Arabia have already expressed shock over the high airfare for repatriation during coronavirus lockdown. Another shocker is heavy quarantine fee once they reach their home state.

Officials in Mangaluru and Bengaluru have confirmed that administration has fixed charges for quarantine facilities starting from Rs 1,200 up to Rs 4,500, including food per day. 14 day quarantine will be mandatory for all healthy and asymptomatic international passengers. Hence, they should be ready to pay Rs 16,800  to Rs 63,000.

The other option is government quarantine centres: hostels run by social welfare, backward classes welfare and minority welfare departments but they are far from satisfactory. This is in stark contrast to the plush government quarantine facilities in Kerala.

In Mangaluru

The first repatriation flight to Mangaluru International Airport is expected to land on Tuesday, May 12 from Dubai.

The quarantine facilities include lodges, hostels and service apartments. Rates are fixed based on four categories: basic, economy, medium and premium. The basic facilities are mainly hostels of educational institutions, and the rest are budget and star hotels, said Rahul Shinde, probationary IAS officer, who is In-charge of the quarantine facilities for those being repatriated.

In Bengaluru

As many as 350 international passengers are set to arrive in Bengaluru at 3 am on Monday, May 11. So far, nobody has opted for government quarantine facilities, according to Lakshman Reddy, Joint Director, Social Welfare Department.

In Bengaluru, there are 55 hostels of the social welfare department, 51 of the backward classes welfare department and 12 of the minority welfare department. “We provide them with three square meals a day,” he added.

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April 6,2020
Mangaluru, Apr 6: Agricultural produce vendors have decided to hold an indefinite strike from Monday here in city's Central Market.
 
This move comes in response to district administration’s order asking them to shift to the APMC yard at Baikampady and not heeding to their appeal to allow them to operate from the Market and other areas in the city.
 
The district administration has decided to shift the vendors in order to prevent crowding in the market and maintain social distancing norms.

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June 15,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 15: After a three-month delay, seven-time MLA and former state minister DK Shivakumar, who has been appointed as the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president, will take charge on July 2 at a simple function at the new party office here.

Mr Shivakumar was appointed as KPCC president on March 11.

Party sources said on Monday that Shivakumar plans to take charge of the party through a “pratijna dina” (pledge day) ceremony that would be telecast live to 7,800 locations across the state and over 10 lakh party workers are expected to attend it virtually.

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