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Uber driver breaks techie’s nose after arguing for more fare

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October 8, 2019

Bengaluru, Oct 8: In yet another case of rowdyism by cabby in the city, a young techie was assaulted by an Uber driver for refusing to pay the extra fare in advance.

The victim, Aneek Roy (23), is an employee at a software firm at Whitefield and a resident of the Mahaveer Tuskan Apartment in Hoodi.

In his complaint to the Mahadevapura police, Roy said that he had booked an UberPool ride to reach the airport on October 3 evening. After he placed the luggage inside the car, driver Harish K S demanded that Roy pay the UberGo fare, which is costlier than Pool, in advance.

Roy refused to do so, telling the driver that he would pay the fare for UberPool under which he had made the booking. When the driver asked Roy to cancel the ride, he questioned the driver as to why had he agreed to take the booking in the first place. Soon, an argument ensued and Roy told him that he would raise a complaint with Uber.

Harish finally cancelled the ride and threw Roy’s luggage out of the cab. When Roy objected to his rude behaviour, the driver got angry and started punching and kicking him.

A shopkeeper came to his rescue as he pacified the driver. Roy started bleeding from his nose and could not stand for a while. Since he was running late, he booked another cab to the airport.

Roy reached the airport, but the staff refused to allow him to fly as his nose was bleeding. He was given medical aid at the hospital in the airport and later taken to Manipal Hospital on Old Airport Road, where doctors said that his nose bone had been dislocated. He filed a police complaint the next morning.

The Mahadevapura police said they were yet to arrest Harish as he was absconding, and efforts were on to nab him.

Reacting to the incident, an Uber spokesperson said: “We have removed the driver partner’s access to the app. We stand ready to assist law enforcement with their investigation.”

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April 12,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 12: Swift and strict action by the District Administration has resulted in the district achieving ‘Clean’ week with no new cases of COVID-19 reported for the seventh day in a row.

Meanwhile, in a happy coincidence, the district’s only infant allegedly affected – a ten month old child – was totally cured and discharged from the hospital along with infant’s mother and grandmother who were considered to the primary contacts. They are never tested positive for the virus, it is reported. Health experts attributed this to their natural immunity.

The child is said to have contracted the infection during a family visit to Kasargod, which has turned in to a Covid-19 hot spot. The family which hails from Sajipanadu in Bantwal-taluk had been kept in isolation ever since the child had tested positive on March 25. The quarantine was extended to the entire village as a preventive measure and the District Administration undertook the responsibility to providing essential supplies.

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July 31,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 31: The Karnataka government on Wednesday put on hold a controversial proposal to drop certain chapters, including on Islam, Christianity, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, from social science textbooks to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi for students in classes 1-10.

Citing the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption caused to the academic calendar of the year, the government had earlier dropped the chapter on Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali from the Class 7 social science textbook, saying chapters on Tipu Sultan have been retained in the Class 6 and 10 textbooks.

The move did not go down well with the opposition, which saw certain ulterior motives behind the decision.

Apparently under sharp criticism, the Department of Public Instruction issued a new notification on Wednesday "on the directions of the Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar".

There is a delay in opening the schools during the academic year 2020-21 due to COVID-19 pandemic, said the latest order.

In this context, the order said, chapters were dropped to fit in 120 days of the academic year for classes 1 to 10 and the same was published in the department's website.

"However, on the directions of the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, the decision to drop certain chapters has been put on hold. A review will be done following which the deleted chapters will be uploaded in the website," the order read.

Earlier in the day, Mr Kumar had issued a statement, saying that the decision to truncate the syllabus has not been finalised yet. He also made it clear that his department would not remove chapters unnecessarily.

Former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah had attacked the government on the issue.

"The government, which has failed to control the spread of coronavirus, is using it as an opportunity to push its clandestine agenda of saffronising the textbooks," Siddaramaiah tweeted.

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March 30,2020

Belgaum, Mar 30: As many as 2442 labourers hailing from Karnataka have been brought back in 62 buses by the State government from Maharashtra on Sunday, in the backdrop of nation-wide lockdown following COVID-19 outbreak.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday urged migrant labourers not to leave the State owing to the nationwide lockdown and assured that the Maharashtra government will look after their interests.

Hundreds of migrants, a majority of whom are daily wage workers started rushing to their native places from different states amid uncertainty over their livelihood following the announcement of a 21-day nationwide lockdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week in order to contain the spread of novel coronavirus.

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