BENGALURU: A 45-year-old driver with the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) was arrested on Saturday morning for driving his sleeper bus for over 70km little realising a dead body was stuck in the undercarriage. This is the most bizarre incident we ve seen so far a senior KSRTC official told STOI adding: We ve heard of accident victims being dragged by buses for 200-300 metres but this has completely baffled us. Mohinuddin attached to the Shantinagar depot drove the non-airconditioned sleeper bus from Coonoor Tamil Nadu to Bengaluru. The victim was unidentified till late Saturday night. Mohinuddin reportedly told police: The bus took the Mysuru - Mandya - Channapatna route to reach Bengaluru. I heard a thud when the bus reached Channapatna which is 70km from Bengaluru and I thought the bus had hit a stone. I couldn t spot anything in the rear-view mirrors too and continued driving. He reached Bengaluru at 2.35am. The bus first went to the Mysuru Road Satellite bus station then to Majestic and the Shantinagar bus station before it entered the bus depot. Mohinuddin parked the bus and dozed off in the rest room. Around 8am the bus was taken for a wash and that s when someone noticed the body stuck in the undercarriage. The Wilson Garden police were alerted. Driver has 10 yrs of experience The deceased is aged between 30 and 40. We shifted the body to Victoria Hospital and alerted policestations on theBengaluru-Mysuru route. We arrested the driver under Section 304A (causing death due to negligence) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC said an official. Mohinuddin who has 10 years of experience and has an accident-free record said: I never thought a man had come under my bus . One driver said: TheBengaluru-Mysuru road has dozens of speedbreakers. The body should have fallen off the vehicle when the bus went over them. It s shocking it remained stuck to the chassis. Read this story in Bengali
By: Express News Service | Bengaluru | Updated: February 5 2018 7:36 am Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP s Karnataka leaders B S Yeddyurappa and S M Krishna in Bengaluru Sunday. (PTI photo) WITH KARNATAKA on election mode Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday that farmers producing vegetables and fruits will be given top priority by his government through the Operation Greens scheme announced in the Union Budget last week. Modi also rolled out a new acronym to match the promise: TOP Tomato Onion Potato. Speaking at a pre-election rally Modi said: Even farmers producing fruits and vegetables are important to us. They have top priority. If you go to any corner of India you will find three vegetables tomato onion and potato. That is why I call it top priority the T of tomato the O of Onion and the P of potato TOP priority. Keeping these farmers in my mind we announced Operation Greens in the Budget. Like how Amul is a model in the milk sector for enhancing the income of dairy farmers Operation Greens will assure incomes for tomato onion potato and all vegetable farmers. The Prime Minister also referred to reform perform transform while talking about his model of governance. Our government is working on the principles of reform perform transform. We try to solve the smallest of problems. In administration in our policies and through our way of working we are bringing change he said. Read | Top quotes from PM Modi s rally According to the Prime Minister the Budget allocation of Rs 14.5 lakh crore for agriculture and rural areas will benefit the poor and backward and reduce pressure on urban areas due to migration from rural areas. Hitting out at the Congress state government Modi claimed that Karnataka trails the rest of the south in health parameters. He said the Ayushman Bharat initiative under the Union Budget including health insurance coverage up to Rs five lakh for 50 crore people will help improve the health situation. This will not only provide 50 crore people the assurance that their health will be taken care of it will also help prevent repeated illnesses from occurring and will benefit the whole country he said. Karnataka can benefit the most from these schemes if there is one party ruling at the Centre and in the state he said. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App Tags: Karnataka Assembly polls Narendra Modi Alpha DomFeb 5 2018 at 7:55 amModi uses all these 3 letter and 4 letters acronym because he is uneducated and the complex of being uneducated leads him to overcompensation by trying to look educated.(0)(0) Replyblackpower 666Feb 5 2018 at 8:03 amT O P Top C A T Cat D O G Dog. now one has doubts about whether he actually cleared sixth standard in the first place forget about his fake degrees(0)(0) Reply AApollo ZFeb 5 2018 at 7:49 amIt was a tired Modi. No zing in his voice. The crowd was unresponsive.(0)(0) Reply blackpower 666Feb 5 2018 at 7:42 amPM of Karnataka now - has come with another slogan - TOP - tomato onion potato! ROFL ROFL ROFL like his other slogans - Man ki Fa rt FakeChai pe FakeCharcha Swach bharat ki asli gandagi ...this FAkendranath is priceless! proves that he is an alumnus of that famous school in nagpore - Rashtriya School of StandupComedy(2)(0) Reply ASHOKFeb 5 2018 at 7:31 amThis NEECH PM is famous for making putting TOPI on others.Selling petrol at Rs 80 per liter and calling Ease of living.Feku your Art of living is well known.(5)(0) Reply http://hwbot.org/user/kkfood/ Sankaran KrishnanFeb 5 2018 at 7:09 amBefore that why not announce how to resolve the Water sharing problems faced by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu which is also most important for TOP priority is it NOT ??? Like Congress if BJP also plays politics over the issue people will refuse to vote for both for the neglect and negligence is being followed by the National Parties !!!(6)(0) Reply Load More Comments
BENGALURU: Solar tariffs rose sharply from their lowest level in the latest solar auction of 860 MW conducted by Karnataka s Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL). The lowest price was Rs 2.94 per unit way above the winning tariffs of Rs 2.47 and Rs 2.44 per unit at the last two auctions in Rajasthan in December and May last year respectively. Though Karnataka gets lower solar radiation than Rajasthan and the winning tariff was expected to be consequently higher the 50 paise per unit rise is striking. It confirms the view of many developers and lenders that bidding in the last few solar auctions had been too aggressive and some correction was likely more so because the cost of solar panels and modules has been rising in China. Around 90% of solar equipment used in India is imported mostly from China since it is substantially cheaper than the locally manufactured variety. But the increase is also a pointer to the difficulties the solar segment has lately been facing. A recent re-classification of solar panels and modules by the Central Board of Customs and Excise has subjected them to 7.5% import duty apart from various kinds of cess while formerly they were in a category whose import was free. In early January the Director General Safeguards also recommended imposing an additional whopping 70% duty on imported solar panels and modules on the ground that they were causing serious injury to domestic manufacturing. Though the recommendation is preliminary and yet to be implemented there is palpable worry among developers about the impact this would have on their financials and future tariffs.. The location of the 860 MW auctioned was distributed across 43 talukas of Karnataka with 660 MW across 33 talukas auctioned under the open category where imported equipment is allowed and 200 MW across 10 talukas under the domestic content requirement (DCR) category where only locally made modules are permitted. The lowest bids in the open category were by Acme Solar in Kudligi taluka and Shapoorji Pallonji at Jagalur taluka both seeking Rs 2.94 per unit. The highest bid was Rs 3.34 per unit by Asian Fab Tech in Doddabellapur taluka. Most of the winning bids across different talukas were above Rs 3 per unit. Of the nine winners the biggest was Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital with 185 MW followed by Acme Solar with 106 MW and ReNew Power with 99 MW. The other winners were Asian Fab Tech with 85 MW TEP Rooftop Solar India with 55 MW Greenko with 45 MW Eklade Solar with 35 MW Rays Infra with 30 MW and and Max Planck Solar Farms with 20 MW. In the DCR category which has been plagued by several problems the results of 100 MW across five talukas were withheld. Sources claimed they had not received bids at all. For the remaining 100 MW across another five talukas the winning tariffs were predictably much higher than in the open category. Emmvee Photovoltaic Power got 80 MW across four talukas with bids between Rs 3.52 and Rs 3.54 per unit while the remaining 20 MW went to Svarog Global Power at Rs 3.54 per unit. Thus effectively only 760 MW were auctioned across 38 talukas. KREDL had set a base price of Rs 3.57 per unit for the auction. In Karnataka s last solar auction in March 2016 of 1 200 MW across 60 taukas the benchmark tariff had been Rs 6.51 per unit. Winning bids had varied between Rs 4.69 and Rs 5.81 per unit.
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Hubballi: Alfiya Basari ranked seventh in the Karnataka state badminton under-15 category has secured a place in the state squad for the first Khelo India School Games - 2018 in New Delhi. She s the only girl from north Karnataka to be selected for this tournament. She proved her mettle in the under-17 singles category at Kadapa Andhra Pradesh organized by the School Games Federation of India. The central government initiated the Khelo India School Games to promote sports talent in the country and prepare them for major sporting events such as the Olympics. A scholarship of Rs 5 lakh each will be given to 1 000 athletes over eight years. Top performers in the tournament will be trained and prepared for the Olympics Commonwealth Games and Asian Games. Alfiya Basari said I m very excited to participate in the Khelo India School Games. I m among eight badminton payers from Karnataka and am being coached by Raghavendra Patil. I spend two hours every day between 6am and 8am on fitness and have four sessions of training in the morning and evening regularly she said. Her father Riyaz Basari said: Alfiya is a class 9 student of Lions English Medium School. I m confident she will perform well at KISG-2018 and make Hubballi proud. Initially Krishnamurthy Uchila guided her and later she underwent training in Hyderabad and Bengaluru he added. Narasappa MN senior assistant director physical instruction commissioner s office Bengaluru said 175 sportspersons have been selected for KISG-2018 and 33 are from North Karnataka. The first batch of 127 sportspersons has reached New Delhi and the second batch left on February 1. The top performers at KISG will be selected for special coaching. From Karnataka there are representatives in 10 sporting events which include athletics kabaddi kho-kho swimming wrestling basketball judo gymnastics and badminton.
Pro-Kannada organisations called off the bandh in Bengaluru on Sunday which was meant to coincide with Prime Minister Narendra Modi s election rally in the city after the Karnataka High Court on Friday termed it unconstitutional . The high court stayed the bandh called by pro-Kannada farmers groups in the city on Sunday on the Mahadayi water dispute issue. Passing an interim order a division bench of acting Chief Justice HG Ramesh and Justice PS Dinesh Kumar asked the Siddaramaiah government to take appropriate steps to prevent breakdown of law and order on that date. The same pro-Kannada organisations had called for the shutdown last week during BJP chief Amit Shah s visit to the state. The protesters will instead observe a black day on Sunday reported News18. File image of protest in Bengaluru. Ayswarya Murthy/101Reporters The high court bench observed that the bandh calls given by Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha on 25 January and 4 February violate(s) the democratic rights of citizens . The bandh was called to protest the inaction by the central and state governments to resolve the Mahadayi river water sharing row. Earlier the prominent judgements of Supreme Court had declared bandhs by political parties and others as unconstitutional and hence it is appropriate for this honourable court to adhere to the order as it violates the democratic rights of the citizens the bench observed. The petition was filed by Bengaluru-based Shraddha Parents Association seeking a direction from the court to term the bandh calls unconstitutional. The bench also considered the petitioner s submission that bandhs resulted in loss to the nation in so many ways other than damaging public or private properties. The petitioner also sought a direction to government to take steps to prevent initiation of bandhs by any organisation. Politicians bicker Speaking to News18 Kannada leader and ex-MLA Vatal Nagaraj who called for the bandh on Sunday said: The people of Mumbai-Karnataka region have no drinking water. We are demanding our share of the river. He also alleged that the BJP-led government in Goa was acting like an enemy country while challenging Modi that if he wanted their votes he must speak for us . The Congress-led state government in Karnataka dismissed allegations of batting for the bandh during the prime minister s visit. I am not so cheap to back a bandh opposing prime minister s visit News18 quoted Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as saying. Modi is set to address a massive BJP rally in Bengaluru on Sunday that marks the conclusion of the party s 90-day Nava Nirman Parivarthan yatra across poll-bound Karnataka. Modi will arrive in the city on Sunday afternoon and address the rally at the Palace grounds in the evening. Thousands of our cadres from across the state and people from the city will participate in the event a party official told IANS. In the run-up to the state election due in late April and early May the BJP conducted the yatra criss-crossing nearly all the 224 constituencies of the Assembly across the state after its national president Amit Shah flagged it off in November. With inputs from agencies Click here to follow live updates on Prime Minister Narendra Modi s rally in Bengaluru
BENGALURU/CHENNAI: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is under pressure from neighbouring Tamil Nadu to release water from the disputed river Cauvery an issue that could affect the Congress party s prospects in the 88 seats in the Old Mysuru region. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edapadi Palaniswamy s office has asked for an appointment with Siddaramaiah to pressure him to release more water to save their samba (rice) crop. About two weeks ago Palaniswamy had written a formal letter on the same subject and Siddaramaiah had decisively said there was insufficient water in his state s reservoirs to release any more. Congress holds 40 of the 88 seats in Old Mysuru where the main water source is the Cauvery. Their main rival in the region former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda s Janata Dal (S) has been insisting that only a regional party like theirs would protect state interests and that both the BJP and the Congress had to factor in national interests in the water wars. This pressure from Tamil Nadu just two months before our Assembly elections is quite suspicious. It seems like an attempt to show Siddaramaiah in a bad light. We suspect there might be a BJP hand from the Centre behind the TN moves a senior Congress leader and colleague of Siddaramaiah who did not wish to be named told ET. This is in the backdrop of reports that the https://in.usgbc.org/people/raj-nadh/0011221775 BJP is intervening in the affairs of the crisis-hit ruling AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu. Senior Tamil Nadu minister D Jayakumar who participated in the emergency meeting convened to discuss the delta region water crisis told ET It is the responsibility of the government to represent farmers anguish. Farmers are facing a crisis and they are protesting to ensure that Karnataka releases water in stages throughout the year as agreed upon. The CM and all senior ministers have decided to demand what is our right from the Karnataka government and it is their (Karnataka government s) duty to give what is meant to be given to us. We have sought an appointment with the Karnataka chief minister and we hope they will give us what is rightfully ours. The Cauvery issue is coming up for a final decision in the Supreme Court in the first half of February. Siddaramaiah is holding out on the release of water in line with the 2007 verdict in the hope that Karnataka s prospects improve. A negative decision will impact the Congress help the JD(S) and also the BJP s prospects in Tamil Nadu another Congress leader in Karnataka pointed out.
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