Archives for January 2022

Bengaluru: Ahead of the weekend curfew, which will come into effect from Friday at 8 pm to Monday 5 am, Karnataka Excise Minister K Gopalaiah said there will be no sale of liquor for two days starting from tonight across the state.

“It has been decided that there will not be any sale of liquor during the weekend curfew. I have directed the officials to issue an order to this effect,” Gopalaiah told reporters.

He said there is spike in cases in the state, especially in Bengaluru. Hence, it has been decided not to open the liquor shops.

Gopalaiah said the liquor shop owners had given a representation to allow them to run their shops but due to rising COVID cases, their plea was not considered.

Meanwhile, Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant appealed to people not to venture out unnecessarily.

“The weekend curfew will come into effect from 8 pm tonight. Please do not go to various places unnecessarily and cooperate with the police for your own safety,” Pant told reporters.

He said only a set of activities is permitted including essential and medical services.

“Those who want to go to the hospital have to furnish supporting documents. Those travelling should also possess tickets and related papers,” the police commissioner said.

He added that the police would not issue any passes for people to travel within the city.

Pant warned that those violating the COVID-19 norms will face action under the Natural Disaster Management Act (NDMA). The violators will be detained and their vehicles will be seized.

The Karnataka government issued a set of prohibitory orders including weekend and night curfews for two weeks to check the rising COVID cases.

Mangaluru: In the background of weekend curfew in Dakshina Kannada district, the movement of buses remains unaffected in the district. Police have been posted in various prominent places and strict arrangements have been set up in this regard. Despite such arrangements, people’s traffic is also observed in the region.

Reportedly, police have undertaken vehicle inspection under the leadership of DCP Hariram Shankar near the Clock Tower in the city. 

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Additional Director of KMF (market) and his team probing Nandini Ghee adulteration racket zeroed in on a wholesale dealer in the city who supplied the spurious products in and around the city .

Dr. Suresh in his complaint said that the KMF officials after raiding the manufacturing unit of Adulterated Nandini Ghee in Hosahundi village in Nanjangud Taluk on December 16, the officials continued to probe the supply chain .

Based on the complaint by Dr. BP Suresh, the Basavanagudi police inspector and his team swung into action and in a joint operation the officials along with the police raided the godowns and shops and seized the adulterated products and sent it to the government quality labs for testing and confirmed that it is adulterated.

Based on the reports the team raided Godown and office of Shruthi Marketing in Vani villas road and it is revealed that the adulterated ghee is supplied to a wholesale dealer in bengaluru from there supplied to his retails clients in and around the city including Hanumanthnagar,Hoskur in Nelamangala and Hosakote,Devanagundi,Jayanagar and Rajajinagar.

Further investigations led to Shruthi Marketing corporation which supplied the adulterated products under the banner of KMF, as per the preliminary investigations.

The official wanted a detailed probe on the company and sought legal action.

Basavanagudi police has registered FIR against Shruthi Marketing Corporation situated on Vani Vilas road charging under section 420 ( cheating )section 272,(Adulterating food or drink intended for sale) and also under various sections of Essential commodities Act and further investigation is on he added.

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The Bagalagunte police have caught the owner of a travel agency who had cheated over 100 car owners promising them to attach their vehicles to his travel agency and pay them monthly rent .

The accused has been identified as Shivakumar with the help of his associates sold the vehicles in neighbouring Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh for throwaway prices and used the money to repay his huge amount of debts.

Senior officer told media persons,based on complaint Registered by victims a special team was formed to nab the cheating gang a team headed by PI, Bagalagunte swung into action and with the help of technical inputs the team tracked the accused and arrested him.

During investigation the accused Shivakumar, confessed the crime and it is revealed that he is a native of Davanagere owned a poultry farm and also into pulses business.

A detailed investigation by the crime team he revealed that he incurred huge losses and due to harassment from his money lenders came to Bengaluru and started RS travels in Bagalagunte in November last year,offering huge amounts of returns for the cab which they had attached to his travel agencies.

With the help of his associates Krishnegowda, Srikanth and Asghar they approached owners of the SUVs in and around the city with the good deal offer and took their vehicles .

After getting over 100 vehicles,the accused shut down the business and escaped.The vehicles they sold in neighbouring states for throwaway prices citing as seized vehicles from people who failed to pay loan has been recovered from his possession.

The vehicles recovered based on his statement are,Innova crysta – 12,Toyota Innova – 5,Toyota etios- 10, Swift dezire -23,Mahindra verito -4,Indigo -1,Xcent -9,Honda amaze -1,Xylo -1,and Ford Figo -1,totally 67 Hi-End cars Worth of Rs.5.72 has been recovered so far and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP North,Vinayak Patil,ACP,Arun Nagegowda,PI,Sunil HB, PSIs as,Sreekantegowda B,Prabhu KL,Lokesh M,Santhosh Kumar,Nagesh HV,and crime staff as,Srinivas,Kumaraswamy, Purshottam,Mallikarjun,Eshwar Sannaki,Mahantaiah,Puthresh,and Prakash Kilari has been appreciated for the commendable and excellent investigation done by the whole team in nabbing the travel agency owner and his associates and recovered 67 Hi-End cars from them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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Atleast Four persons including two women travelling in a same car were killed and six others injured in a serial accident occured on NICE road near purvankara apartment in Kumaraswamy layout on friday night.

The deceased has been identified as,Md fadzil,Abhilash,Jeena, software employees,and Jeena a private school teacher all aged about 25-30 years were killed in a accident.

As soon as the incident was reported immediately senior officers as,DCP,Traffic West, Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,with ACP, Srinivas,and other staff rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area of accident and after collecting information from the passer by and eyewitness.

Senior officer said,A major fatal accident occurred on Nice Road near Purvankara Apartment in Bengaluru wherein a truck collided with vehicles,which resulted in a serial accident.

The horrific accident occurred at around,9.30 pm due to Tamil Nadu registered truck driving in rash and negligent manner collided with the kerala registeration car (wagonr).

Due to this two more cars and four trucks damaged as they collided with each other .

Four persons who were travelling in SUV (qualis) and two others travelling in another car (swift) sustained minor injuries, admitted to hospital and out of danger,a senior police officer, said.

The vehicles on the stretch of road was moving slowly due to minor road repair and due to negligence of the truck driver, led to the accident, a preliminary inquiry revealed.

The truck driver escaped soon after the accident and efforts are on to track him down.

The deceased were heading in a car from Bannerghatta towards tumkur.Traffic moving was disrupted on NICE road for sometime and vehicles were stranded for over four kms.

DCP Traffic West,Kuldeep Kumar R Jain is supervising the investigation and the culprit truck driver will be nabbed soon he added.

In an self accident two people killed on the spot as they rammed into the divider near PES college under Banashankari Traffic limits.

In a separate road accident,two youngsters returning from a party crashed their motorbikes into a median near the Indira Canteen on Outer Ring Road near PES University and died in the impact.

Lakshmeesha (28),an engineer, and Raghavendra (32),a lab technical assistant,partied at a Nagarabhavi resto-bar with their friends Rakshith and Gautam.

They were returning to their homes at Byatarayanapura in two separate bikes without wearing helmets.

The accident happened as they were going from Mysuru Road towards the 100 Feet Ring Road.

A case has been registered in Banashankari Traffic police station and are investigating further.

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Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday busted an international drud syndicate operating in south india and arrested a woman from uganda smuggling 995 grams of methanpethine to hubbali by train worth Rs.1.5 crore.

Amith Ghawate,Zonal director,NCB,said that the drug was sourced from Delhi to hubballi and was concealed in two cerelac baby food carton boxes.

Based on a tip off,a team track down the woman and arrested her at hubballi station as soon as she got down.

With her arrest a major drug syndicate operating in south has been neutralized,Mr.Ghawate said in a release.

The accused has been booked under NDPS act and further investigation are on to track down other members of the syndicate he added.

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Specific measures would be taken to eradicate malnutrition in Raichur, Yadgir districts and Chincholi in Kalaburagi district.

Necessary allocations would be made for the purpose in the budget,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Bommai who had an interaction with Niti Ayog(SGD),consultant Sanmukta Samaddar said that funds would be provided in the next budget for Kalyana Karnataka Regional Development Board to improve the education,health and standard of life in the region.

Poverty should not be defined just on the basis of income.It is decided on multiple facets like health,education and living standards,consultant to Niti Ayog explained.

Karnataka’s Sustainable Development Index which was at 66 in 2019 has risen to 72.

Karnataka needs to improve in Health Insurance, malnutrition among teenage girls and pregnant women,rural drinking water supply,hygiene, cooking gas supply.Multiple Poverty Index is useful in taking up focussed work on these aspects at district and taluk levels, the consultant said.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai stated that initiative would be taken to accomplish it by utilising the human resources and organisations of Kalyana Karnataka.

Deputy Chairperson of State Planning Board BJ Puttaswamy, minister Muniratna and senior officials were present.

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The government will gain people’s trust when its services are taken to their doors, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said speaking after laying the foundation stone for new rooms at the KAS Officers Association building and releasing the annual calendar of the Association.

The Chief Minister called upon the officers to make Karnataka the number one state in the country.

He wanted the government services to reach the door steps of the people amid the Covid challenges.

The ‘Grama One’ and ‘Jan Sevak’ programmes to take government services to the doors of the people would be launched on January 26, he said.

He recalled the contribution of the royal families of Mysuru in giving a structured framework for the administrative system and developing the state as a model state in agriculture, industry, banking and education.

Bommai exhorted the officers to take the benefits of administration to those at the bottom of the society and bring a change in the lives of the weaker sections. 

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Highlights

*Govt mulling to issue Green passes to identify fully vaccinated citizens.

*10,000 home surgeons, nursing students to be roped in for tele-triaging.

*strict surveillance on travellers coming from other countries and states at railway stations, bus stations and airports.

*Mandatory physical or tele-triaging of infected to assess requirement of hospitalisation.

10,000 medical and nursing students to be roped in for this.

*Uniform treatment protocol, discharge policy and quarantine guidelines to be released.

*Green pass to be issued for full vaccinated.

*Celebrities to be roped in for awareness campaign on vaccination and covid appropriate behaviour.

Govt is ensuring preparedness in very aspect to mitigate third wave, said health and medical education minister Dr.K.Sudhakar.

Speaking to media after charing a high level meeting at Vidhanasoudha,Dr.Sudhakar said that responsibilities have been allocated to officials and instructions have been given to ensure coordination between other departments.

The experience of past two waves will help us anticipate and plan accordingly.

WHO alert

WHO has said that omicron is the fastest speeding variant. Although omicron is not as severe as Delta,it cannot be said to be mild.

Those who are fully vaccinated with two doses may not get severe infection. So everyone should get two doses, said minister.

More than 29 crore are infected with covid across the world. From December 27 to January 2 the infection has increased by 79%. About 109 countries have not vaccinated even 70%. 36 countries have not even vaccinated 10%. 80% of the cases in ICU are not vaccinated.

WHO has requested India to export vaccines to other countries.No country is safe until every country is safe.

Strict rules in state

More than 99% people in the state are vaccinated with first dose.80% are vaccinated with two doses.India has today achieved another milestone by crossing 150 crore doses.This is testimony of centre and state government’s good work.