Man held for assault on constable over road crash duel

February 26, 2011

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Mangalore, February 26: Personnel of Barke (Gandhinagar) police on Thursday arrested Chandrahas (44), resident of Gundi House, Ballalbagh in connection with assaulting Akbar Basha, an armed police constable attached to District Armed Reserve on February 20 at Ballalbagh.

A group of five to six persons assaulted Basha when he went to shift two injured persons, whose motorcycle collided with departmental jeep that he was driving, to the hospital.

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It was a rough initiation in to the world of policing for IPS probationary officer Abhinav Khare who was nearly manhandled by an irate crowd after an official vehicle in which he was travelling collided with a motorcycle causing grievous injuries to two persons at Ballalbagh in the city here on Sunday.

The crowd manhandled Akbar Basha, a District Armed Reserve police constable who was driving the vehicle when the accident took place.

The accident took place around 3.15pm when Akbar took a right turn at Ballalbagh junction median and crashed in to the oncoming motorcycle driven by Sandeep and Joel Crasta riding pillion. The impact of the accident was such that both were thrown off the motorcycle and Joel ended up on the steps of a nearby medical store in the basement of a building. A crowd that gathered at the spot manhandled Akbar and advanced menacingly on Abhinav.

Efforts by the probationary officer to explain the procedure to the crowd did not cut ice with them, some of whom were in an inebriated condition and who demanded that he summon the driver, who by then had left the spot with the victims to the district government hospital, and hand him over to them. Abhinav asked the crowd to register a complaint against the errant driver based on which the jurisdictional police would initiate action against him.

Abhinav reported to the DK rural police unit for his probationary training on Saturday.

The fact that he did not know the local language and the crowd did not understand Hindi, the language he spoke only complicated issues. It was the timely intervention by the media which saved Abhinav from the crowds ire and he later left the spot in another departmental vehicle, by which time senior police officials including Mangalore ACP Ravindra K G arrived.

ACP Ravindra assured the protesting crowd that action would be initiated against the departmental driver. In a related development, the Barke police have registered a case against the group that beat up Akbar on charges of preventing a public servant from discharging his duties and assaulting him while on duty and efforts are on to round them up. Traffic West police are separately investigating the case against Akbar, who allegedly caused the accident.

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Elections to 7 seats of Karnataka Legislative Council on June 29

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June 9,2020

New Delhi, Jun 9: Elections to seven seats of the Karnataka Legislative Council will be held on June 29, the poll panel announced on Tuesday.

The seven seats are falling vacant on June 30, according to an Election Commission statement.

Members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly will vote on June 29 to elect the seven new MLCs.

The Commission has directed the Karnataka chief secretary to depute a senior officer to ensure that the instructions regarding COVID-19 containment measures are complied with during the elections.

The counting of votes will be held on the evening of June 29 after completion of polls, as per practice.

The notification for the elections will be issued on June 11, the statement said.

MLCs are usually elected by four types of electors -- MLAs, Graduates, Teachers and members of local authorities.

On Monday, the Commission had deferred elections to four seats of the Karnataka Legislative Council -- two each from Teachers and Graduate constituencies -- falling vacant on June 30 due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

"If MLAs are electors, the size of the electorate is small and the assembly building is the only polling station. When the electorate is teachers or graduates, the number of those who can vote is higher.

Due to the virus, Commission only allowed polls to seats where MLAs are the electors to prevent large gatherings," explained a senior EC functionary.

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Shwetha Rasquinha conferred doctorate by Mangalore University

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January 2,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 2: Shwetha Rasquinha, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Social Work, St Aloysius College, Mangaluru, has been awarded Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the Mangalore University for her thesis titled “Effectiveness of Social work intervention on caretakers of cancer patients- A social work study in Mangalore”.

She did her studies under the guidance of Dr Rameela Shekhar, Professor (Rtd), School of Social work, Roshni Nilaya, Mangaluru.

Ms Shwetha Rasquinha hails from Vittal, D/o Vincent Rasquinha and Late Regina Rasquinha, and is the second person to complete doctoral studies from the Vittal Parish.

Her colleagues and well-wishers have congratulated her for her highest achievement in academics and successful completion of quality research.

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Only God can save us from Covid-19, says Health Minister B Sriramulu

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July 16,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 16: Rattled by the spurt in Covid-19 positive cases, a Karnataka minister on Wednesday said only god would save the people from coronavirus pandemic.

"Only god has to save us from the virus or the people should be made aware of the infection so that they wear mask and maintain social distancing," state Health Minister B Sriramulu told reporters in Chitradurga, 205-km northwest of Bengaluru.

Noting that the infection does not differentiate between rich and poor, police, doctors, politicians or legislators, Sriramulu said the communicable disease could rise to alarming level in the ensuing two months, as the cases were rising daily the world over.

"Who can control coronavirus? In the present situation, only god has to save us. Otherwise, the people should become aware of its (virus) consequences. If we have made mistakes, we are ready to face punishment for them," said Sriramulu, who is the ruling BJP's legislator from the Molakalmuru reserved assembly segment in the district.

Refuting the opposition Congress charge that the cases were rising in the state due to negligence by ministers, officials and legislators, Sriramulu said Karnataka was performing better than other states till the cases began to steadily rise since unlock started and the people were moving in violation of the guidelines.

A record 3,176 cases were reported from across the southern state during the day, taking the Covid tally to a whopping 47,253, including 27,853 active cases after 18,466 were discharged, with 1,076 during the day, while 928 succumbed to the virus, with 87 in the last 24 hours.

In Bengaluru, which is under 9-day lockdown since Tuesday night till July 22 morning, 1,975 positive cases were registered, taking its tally to 22,944, including 17,051 active after 5,455 were discharged so far, with 463 during the day, while 437 died of the infection, with 60 in the last 24 hours.

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