Miraculous escape for father-son duo

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May 30, 2012

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Bangalore, May 30: A man and his son had a miraculous escape when a concrete mixer lorry fell toppled on their car on Malagala Service Road near Nagarabavi on Tuesday morning.

S R Venugopal and his son V Bharath were travelling in their car when the lorry speeding from the opposite direction took a sharp left turn and fell on the car.

The duo escaped unhurt as they rushed out of the car in a split second when they saw the lorry toppling on their vehicle. The lorry driver also escaped unhurt. Kamakshipalya Traffic Police rushed to the spot and removed the lorry and the mangled car with the help of a crane.

Lorry driver Suras Chowdhary was arrested and later released on bail.

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Man falls to death

Doreprasad, a 32-year-old native of Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, fell to his death from the balcony of his second floor apartment in Kamakya Layout on Monday night.

A software engineer, Doreprasad had recently shifted to the City and was in search of a job. According to the police, he was drunk and was sleeping on the parapet wall of the balcony, when he lost his balance and fell down. Though he was rushed to a nearby hospital, he was declared brought dead. Chennammanakere Achukattu police have registered a case.

Youth found hanging

Murali, a 25-year-old youth, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his house in Sector B, Yelahanka New Town, on Tuesday morning.

His mother, Mangalagowramma, and his sister Chandrakala had gone to their native place in Andhra Pradesh on May 26. When they returned home on Tuesday, neighbours and police had gathered around their house after people complained of bad smell emanating from the house for the past couple of days.

The police broke open the door in the presence of the family members and found Murali’s body in a decomposed state. Police suspect that Murali might have committed suicide either on May 26 or 27.

The family members stated that Murali was depressed as he could not pass his BSc exam even after five attempts, which could have led him to end his life. Yelahanka New Town Police have registered a case.

Two houses burgled

Thieves broke into two houses - in KR Puram and Byataranayapura - and decamped with cash and valuables worth lakhs of rupees. Thieves struck at the house of Dharmanayak, a resident of Ayyappa Nagar and decamped with cash and valuables worth Rs 17 lakh.

Dharmanayak, an engineer, had gone to Chikmagalur along with his family, to attend a function. They were shocked to see the front door of their house broken open, when they returned on Tuesday morning. Thieves had decamped with Rs 2.7 lakh in cash and 485 gram of gold jewellery. KR Puram police have registered a case and are investigating.

In another incident, thieves targeted a house in Kasturba Nagar on Monday afternoon and made away with gold jewellery worth about 1.5 lakh. Anita and her husband left their house on Monday morning for work. When they returned in the evening, they found the main door open and valuables missing. A case has been registered by the Byatarayanapura police station.

Valuables stolen from car

Thieves made away with nearly 200 gram of gold jewellery and Rs 25,000 cash, worth Rs six lakh in all, from a car parked in front of a marriage hall. Basavanagudi police said Inayat Ullah Sherief and his family, residents of Guddadahalli on Mysore Road, had gone to attend a marriage at NGS Convention Hall on Kanakapura Road.

They had kept their gold jewellery in the car. When they returned, the jewellery was missing. The thieves had removed the side glass to lay their hands on the valuables.

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May 28,2020

Mumbai, May 28: Twenty four doctors and three others staying in a south Mumbai hotel were rescued after a major fire broke out in the five-storey building, officials said on Thursday.

The BMC has arranged temporary accommodation for emergency and essential service staffers, including doctors and nurses, in various hotels and lodges in the city due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This hotel is one such facility.

The fire broke out at Hotel Fortune near Metro Cinema late Wednesday night and was brought under control after nearly three hours early Thursday, fire brigade officials said.

“The fire spread from the first to the third floor of the hotel, a fire brigade official told PTI. It was a level-2 fire and eight fire engines were rushed to the spot, he added.

The fire was confined to the electric wiring and cables in the electrical duct, false ceiling in the lobby and the common passages on the first, second and third floors of the hotel, he said.

The 24 rescued were resident doctors at a local hospital who were provided temporary accommodation in the hotel, while the three others were guests of the hotel, he said.

The fire broke out at 11 am and wasbrought under control at 1.40 am, the official said. Cooling operation is underway at the hotel, he added.

Five doctors were rescued using fire brigade ladders and breathing apparatus sets, the official said.

The cause of the blaze is not yet known, the fire brigade official said.

On April 21, a major fire broke out in a lodging room of Hotel Ripon near Mumbai Central, which was being used as a quarantine facility by the civic body.

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News Network
June 30,2020

Visakhapatnam, Jun 30: Two people were killed and four others were taken ill after benzene gas leaked at a pharmaceutical company at Parawada near here early on Tuesday morning, official sources said.

The situation was now under control as the leak was restricted to one unit in the Sainor Life Sciences company, the sources said.

The two killed were senior employees of the company, they said.

The injured persons have been admitted to a hospital in Gajuwaka, with one of them being put on ventilator support, the sources added.

District Collector V Vinay Chand and Police Commissioner R K Meena visited the company to take stock of the situation.

The cause of the leak that took place in a reactor unit at the plant is yet to be established.

The incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1000 taken ill after gas leak at a chemical plant here.

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January 15,2020

New Delhi, Jan 15: The CBI has booked 17 individuals and companies, including three Mumbai-based senior Customs officials, for allegedly being part of a money laundering racket using over-invoiced import of diamonds worth more than Rs 156 crore, official said on Tuesday.

The case was referred to the CBI after a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence probe found alleged involvement of Customs officials in the conspiracy, they said.

The DRI probe had alleged that Hong Kong-based businessman Girish Kadel had imported rough diamonds from Switzerland to Hong Kong in the name of his four companies.

Kadel, who had business interests in India, had exported some of these diamonds to India through 14 consignments in the name of two companies Antique Exim Pvt Ltd and Tanman Jewels showing over-invoiced value of Rs 156.28 crore.

The DRI had found during revaluation that actual value of the consignment was Rs 1.03 crore instead of falsely declared value of Rs 156.28 crore, they said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged that Kadel used Import Export Codes (IECs) of Antique Exim Private Ltd and Tanman Jewels through his aide Atul Paldecha for siphoning off the money outside India through import of over-valued diamonds, the officials said.

Rough diamonds were imported at "highly exaggerated value" to siphon off excess foreign exchange overseas to cover the differential cost of other imports and park money abroad for unlawful activities.

It is alleged that the then Commissioner APSC Mumbai, Vinay Brij Singh, influenced subordinate officers to give favourable report, they said.

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