Lightning kills three in State

May 12, 2012
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Bangalore, May 12: Heavy rain which lashed several districts in the State has claimed the lives of three persons, cattle and has left a trail of destruction in several villages.


Suresh Pujari and his two oxen were killed when they were struck by lightning, while they were ploughing the field at Panegaom village in Gulbarga on Friday.

In Udanur village, three oxen were killed when they were struck by lightning. Another person was struck by lightning at Haliyal, in Uttara Kannada district because of lightning.

The details of the dead are unavailable. In another incident of lightning, Basappa Suganalli, 38, was killed at Kusalapur in Shiratti taluk of Gadag district.

Heavy rain with gusty winds on Thursday night have left 500 coconut trees and more than 1,500 banana plants uprooted at Arasikere taluk in Hassan district.

The asbestos roofs of 10 houses were blown away. Losses have been put at Rs five lakh . Heavy rain lashed Bendekere, Basavarajpura, Shanthanahalli, Haratanahalli, Puralehalli villages in the taluk.

An electricity pole which broke into two halves fell on the drinking water tank, thereby halting water and power supply to the village. Rainwater gushed into several houses damaging the foodgrains and other items.

A coconut tree fell on a transformer and damaging it in one of the fields.

H D Kote taluk in Mysore received good rainfall. Agricultural produce worth lakhs of rupees including 300 banana plants, 140 drumstick plants belonging to farmer Ksheerasagara, from Vaddaragudi village have been destroyed.

Heavy downpour accompanied with hailstones, lightning and thunder during noon provided much needed respite from the summer heat for the residents of Belgaum City.


In Dharwad City, major drains and roads were overflowing due to rain which lashed for more than two hours on Friday evening.

Traffic movement came to a grinding halt leading to chaos and confusion. Several low-lying areas including Jannat Nagar, Lakshmisinghanakeri, Koppadkeri, Haveripete, Murugha Mutt area, Bhavikatti plot, Tollnaka, Honnatti Chawl, etc were inundated with rainwater. Dark clouds and lack of power supply turned the city into pitch dark.

The compound wall belonging to SC?Puranik near Rayara Mutt was damaged in the rain. According to the Director of Meteorological Department Puttanna, more rains are expected in the North Karnataka and coastal region in next few days.



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June 27,2020

Guna (MP),  Jun 27: A 20-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly eloping with her minor partner and "marrying" her at Guna town in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Saturday.

The matter came to light, when a resident of Budhe Balaji area approached the Kotwali police station on Monday with a complaint that his 17-year-old daughter had gone missing, additional superintendent of police T S Baghel said.

On investigation, it was found that a relative from a village Shivpuri district, who was living with the family, was also missing, he said.

A team was sent to the village and the duo was caught on Friday, the official said, adding that the woman had married the minor, who claimed that she had eloped of her own volition.

The woman was arrested under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, while the minor was sent back to her family after counselling.

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Agencies
June 12,2020

The West Bengal government has suspended two women teachers in East Burdwan district on the charge of teaching pre-primary students from an English alphabet book consisting of a portion derogatory to the people with a dark complexion.

While presenting the alphabets with corresponding words and images, the book says U is for "Ugly". The illustration printed beside the letter is that of a boy with a dark complexion.

"The book is not part of the textbooks referred by the education department. It was introduced by the school itself. We have zero-tolerance for acts which instil prejudices into the minds of students," Education Minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters here on Thursday.

He said the two teachers of a local municipality-run school have been placed under suspension with immediate effect based on a preliminary investigation and stricter action would be taken against them later.

Though the school is now closed because of the lockdown, the matter came to light when the father of a student of the school was teaching him with the help of that book. He informed other parents and the education department was apprised of the issue, sources said.

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May 6,2020

A man posed as Superintendent of Police (SP), called up a subordinate police official and asked him to get his mobile phone repaired or face the consequences. But, his bluff was later called and the man landed in lockup.

Azamgarh SP Triveni Singh said the 23-year-old youth, Shubham Upadhyay, is the son of a farmer. He was preparing for competitive exams when his phone developed a snag on Saturday. He tried to reach out to local mechanics, but they were unavailable to fix it due to the lockdown.

Upadhyay used a free caller identification app to call up the in-charge of the Kotwali police station, K. K. Gupta, and threatened to shunt him out, if he failed to swiftly get the work done. Gupta grew suspicious and eventually caught the youth.

n his statement to the police, Shubham Upadhyay said, "On Sunday noon, I tried to breach the district borders to reach Lucknow to repair my phone, but since there was heavy police presence and barricading, I returned home. Later, I installed a free caller identification app in my handset and mentioned the name as SP Azamgarh and even uploaded a photo of the cop to appear genuine."

He first called SHO, Kotwali to get the phone repaired and was told the handset would be picked up from the SP office in an hour. Then, he called a businessman to bring his SUV and hand over his mobile to the SHO.

But when Upadhyay called the police again to suggest a separate meeting point, he raised suspicion. When the SHO tried to confirm the venue, Upadhyay got hesitant and said he would send a peon.

"I suddenly realised something was fishy and rang up the public relation officer of SP Azamgarh, who denied any such order from the SP. When the caller's number was scanned, it displayed the name of SP Azamgarh," said SHO Gupta.

A trap was laid and when the SHO reached the venue, he found one Praveen Shukla sitting in the vehicle. Police got the address of the accused from Shukla and reached Upadhyay's home in Bilariya locality and arrested him.

Upadhyay has been booked under IT Act and for threatening a public servant.

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