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Japan announces $42 billion investment in five years

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NEW DELHI: Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, today announced that they would invest 5 trillion Yen ($42 billion) in India over the next five years. This translates into `3.2 lakh crore.He was in India for the 14th India Japan Annual Summit, which was held after a gap of three and half years. 

Besides the major investment that Japan is making, PM Kishida raised the issue of Ukraine during his interaction with PM Modi. “Russia’s attacking Ukraine is a serious issue. The international order is badly shaken as a result of this. “We suggest a ceasefire,” Kishida said.He said that India and Japan should work towards enabling a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict with a peaceful resolution. This can be possible through dialogue.

This is PM Kishida’s first bilateral foreign visit after he assumed office, last year.PM Modi expressed optimism of the economic tie-up between the two countries.“There has been progress in the economic partnership between India and Japan. Japan is one of the largest investors in India. India-Japan are working as ‘One team-One Project’ on Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail,” Prime Minister Modi said.

In 2014 after PM Modi became PM, Japan was his first official visit to a foreign country. After this India-Japan became strategic partners.“PM Kishida’s visit is important for stability and peace in the Indo-Pacific region,” said Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla.

This year also happens to be the 70th anniversary of the establishment of India and Japan’s diplomatic relations which began in 1952.

“Progress, prosperity and partnership are the basis of India-Japan relations. We are committed to providing all possible support to Japanese companies in India,” PM Modi said. Business meetings were held attended by the two Prime Ministers.

‘Russia’s siege of Mariupol involved war crimes’, says Zelensky as he suspends Ukraine parties with Moscow links

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LVIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early Sunday the siege of the port city of Mariupol would go down in history for what he said were war crimes committed by Russian troops. “To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come,” Zelenskyy said in a video address to the nation.

Russian forces have pushed deeper into the besieged and battered city, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help.

In the capital, Kyiv, at least 20 babies carried by Ukrainian surrogate mothers are stuck in a makeshift bomb shelter, waiting for parents to travel into the war zone to pick them up. Some just days old, the babies are being cared for by nurses who cannot leave the shelter because of constant shelling by Russian troops who are trying to encircle the city.

The fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war’s worst suffering, would mark a major battlefield advance for the Russians, who are largely bogged down outside major cities more than three weeks into the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II.

“Children, elderly people are dying. The city is destroyed and it is wiped off the face of the earth,” Mariupol police officer Michail Vershnin said from a rubble-strewn street in a video addressed to Western leaders that was authenticated by The Associated Press.

Details also began to emerge Saturday about a rocket attack that killed as many as 40 marines in the southern city of Mykolaiv the previous day, according to a Ukrainian military official who spoke to The New York Times.

Russian forces have already cut Mariupol off from the Sea of Azov, and its fall would link Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, to eastern territories controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. It would mark a rare advance in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance that has dashed Russia’s hopes for a quick victory and galvanized the West.

Ukrainian and Russian forces battled over the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Vadym Denysenko, adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said. “One of the largest metallurgical plants in Europe is actually being destroyed,” Denysenko said in televised remarks.

The Mariupol city council claimed hours later that Russian soldiers had forcibly relocated several thousand city residents, mostly women and children, to Russia. It didn’t say where, and AP could not immediately confirm the claim.

Zelenskyy adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said the nearest forces that could assist Mariupol were already struggling against “the overwhelming force of the enemy” and that “there is currently no military solution to Mariupol.”

Despite the siege in Mariupol, many remained struck by Ukraine’s ability to hold back its much bigger, better-armed foe. The United Kingdom’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine’s airspace continued to be effectively defended.

“Gaining control of the air was one of Russia’s principal objectives for the opening days of the conflict and their continued failure to do so has significantly blunted their operational progress,” the ministry said on Twitter.

Russia is now relying on stand-off weapons launched from the relative safety of Russian airspace to strike targets within Ukraine, the ministry said.

In Mykolaiv, rescuers searched the rubble of the marine barracks that was destroyed in an apparent missile attack Friday. The region’s governor said the marines were asleep when the attack happened.

It wasn’t clear how many marines were inside at the time, and rescuers were still searching the rubble for survivors the following day. But a senior Ukrainian military official, who spoke to The New York Times on condition of anonymity to reveal sensitive information, estimated that as many as 40 marines were killed, which would make it one of the deadliest known attacks on Ukrainian forces during the war.

Estimates of Russian deaths vary widely, but even conservative figures are in the low thousands. Russia had 64 deaths in five days of fighting during its 2008 war with Georgia. It lost about 15,000 in Afghanistan over 10 years, and more than 11,000 in years of fighting in Chechnya.

Russia’s number of dead and wounded in Ukraine is nearing the 10% benchmark of diminished combat effectiveness, said Dmitry Gorenburg, a researcher on Russia’s security at the Virginia-based CNA think tank. The reported battlefield deaths of four Russian generals — out of an estimated 20 in the fight — signal impaired command, Gorenburg said.

Russia would need 800,000 troops — almost equal to its entire active-duty military — to control Ukraine long-term in the face of the armed opposition, said Michael Clarke, former head of the British-based Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank.

“Unless the Russians intend to be completely genocidal — they could flatten all the major cities, and Ukrainians will rise up against Russian occupation — there will be just constant guerrilla war,” said Clarke.

The Russian military said Saturday that it used its latest hypersonic missile for the first time in combat. Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Kinzhal missiles destroyed an underground warehouse storing Ukrainian missiles and aviation ammunition in the western region of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Russia has said the Kinzhal, carried by MiG-31 fighter jets, has a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,250 miles) and flies at 10 times the speed of sound. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the U.S. couldn’t confirm the use of a hypersonic missile.

U.N. bodies have confirmed more than 847 civilian deaths since the war began, though they concede the actual toll is likely much higher. The U.N. says more than 3.3 million people have fled Ukraine as refugees.

Evacuations from Mariupol and other besieged cities proceeded along eight of 10 humanitarian corridors, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, and a total of 6,623 people left. Vereshchuk said planned humanitarian aid for the southern city of Kherson, which Russia seized early in the war, could not be delivered because the trucks were stopped along the way by Russian troops.

Ukraine and Russia have held several rounds of negotiations aimed at ending the conflict but remain divided over several issues, with Moscow pressing for its neighbor’s demilitarization and Kyiv demanding security guarantees. Around Ukraine, hospitals, schools and buildings where people sought safety have been attacked.

At least 130 people survived the Wednesday bombing of a Mariupol theater that was being used a shelter, but another 1,300 were believed to be still inside, Ludmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament’s human rights commissioner, said Friday.

“We pray that they will all be alive, but so far there is no information about them,” Denisova told Ukrainian television.

A satellite image from Maxar Technologies released Saturday confirmed earlier reports that much of the theater was destroyed. It also showed the word “CHILDREN” written in Russian in large white letters outside the building.

Russian forces have fired on eight cities and villages in the eastern Donetsk region in the past 24 hours, including Mariupol, Ukraine’s national police said Saturday. Dozens of civilians were killed or wounded, and at least 37 residential buildings and facilities were damaged including a school, a museum and a shopping center.

In the western city of Lviv, Ukraine’s cultural capital, which was hit by Russian missiles on Friday, military veterans were training dozens of civilians on how to handle firearms and grenades. “It’s hard, because I have really weak hands, but I can manage it,” said one trainee, 22-year-old Katarina Ishchenko.

Zelenskyy has also ordered to suspend activities of 11 political parties with links to Russia.

The largest of them is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country’s parliament.

The party is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has friendly ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the godfather of Medvedchuk’s daughter.

Also on the list is the Nashi (Ours) party led by Yevheniy Murayev.

Before the Russian invasion.

the British authorities had warned that Russia wanted to install Murayev as the leader of Ukraine.

Speaking in a video address early Sunday, Zelenskyy said that “given a large-scale war unleashed by the Russian Federation and links between it and some political structures, the activities of a number of political parties is suspended for the period of the martial law.”

He added that “activities by politicians aimed at discord and collaboration will not succeed.”

Zelenskyy’s announcement follows the introduction of the martial law that envisages a ban on parties associated with Russia.

All efforts for development of Kalyana Karnataka: CM Bommai

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Parmesh S Jain

The State government would make all efforts for development of Kalyana Karnataka region, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Speaking to media persons at Devatkal Helipad in Surapur taluk he said, Rs.3000 cr grant has been provided for Kalyana Karnataka Development Board.

A separate sectoral grant has been provided for Education, Health and Malnutrition. Apart from this grants need to be provided under Special Development Plan in accordance with the Nanjundappa report, Bommai said.

Development works of over Rs.1000 cr are being launched in Yadgir district today. Solatium would be paid to the families of those who lost their lives in the recent cylinder blast incident. I have come here to initiate development works, Bommai said.

Replying to a question Bommai said, inclusion of Bhagavad Gita in school curriculum is being considered as part of the moral education.

A decision in this regard would be taken after discussing the issue with the Education minister.

Halasurgate police arrests 3 robber, extortionist from his hideout in Nagapur recovered stolen 1kg gold

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Parmesh S Jain

The Central Division police of Halasurgate police on Saturday arrested a gang of three from Nagpur, who had robbed 1.7 kgs of gold valuables from a jeweler after threatening him at a gunpoint on the busy Nagarathpet on February 12.

The accused have been identified as Raja Ali, Nadir Zaidi and Vikas Patil from Nagpur.

Senior officer told media persons,a complaint was registered in Halasurgate police station by jewellery shop owner who stated in his complaint a group of three persons confronted them on busy Nagarathpet area and made away with 1.7 kg of gold from them by threatening them at gunpoint.

After receiving the complaint PI,Deepak of Halasurgate police station with crime staff visited the scene of crime and later he passed the information to senior officers.

After collecting information DCP, Central,MN Anucheth formed a special team under the leadership of PI, Deepak to nab the gang.

Based on complaint the inspector and his crime staff analysed CCTV footage in and around the area in one of the cameras the team identified the identity of the accused.

The team circulated their pictures to their counterparts in neighbouring states and with police investigation skills and with the help of other technology investigation skills the team tracked the accused to their home town the team immediately rushed to Nagpur and secured them and took them into custody.

During investigation the accused confessed the Crime and revealed that they would move around the jewelry shops on Nagarathpet and target people carrying gold valuables.

On February 12,the accused zeroed in on Prabhu Ram,employee of a gold shop in Rajajinagar who had come with 1.7 kgs of gold jewels to get hallmark stamp of purity.

The accused confronted Prabhuram,threatened him with the fake gun and snatched and escaped with the bag containing the gold jewels they revealed during investigation.

The police seized one kilograms of gold valuables and further investigations are on.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP Central,MN Anucheth,ACP,PI,Deepak and his whole crime team has been appreciated for the commendable and exemplary work done by them in nabbing the notorious extrortion gang who used to rob people showing fake gun a special reward will be given to the whole team he added.

Three member poacher gang trying to sell elephant tusks arrested by CK Achukattu police recovered 27 kgs of 2 elephant tusks worth Rs.5 Crore

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Parmesh S JAIN

The South Division police of CK Achukattu police on Saturday arrested three persons and recovered 27 kgs of two elephant tusks which they were trying to sell .

The accused has been identified as,Chandregowda,46,Praveen Guled,24 and Somalingappa Kodad,41 are from Hassan and Haveri were suspected to be part of the poachers gang.

Senior officer told media persons,the CK Achukattu police inspector recieved a credible information from his reliable inputs that three persons in car are found to be suspicious and are trying to elephant tusk.

After getting information PI,Janardhan PR passed information to his senior officers,a team led by DCP South, Harish Pandey,under the leadership of PI,Janardhan PR and his crime team rushed to 7th main BSK third stage and surrounded the area and kept a close watch on all the trio.

After getting doubt on their suspicious behaviour the inspector and his team approached them and questioned for whom they are waiting at the same time they intercepted the car and found elephant tusks in their possession the team secured them immediately and took them to station.

They caught the accused red handed while they were waiting in a car to deliver the tusks.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and the accused are identified as, Chandregowda,46,Praveen Guled,24 and Somalingappa Kodad, 41 are from Hassan and Haveri were suspected to be part of the poachers gang.

It is suspected that they had killed the elephant from a reserve forest range in and around Hassan .

Going by the seize of the tusks the animal is easily 60 to 70 yr old and the tusk length is more than 5.5 ft, the police , said .

The trio have been booked under various sections of Wildlife protection act and are investigating further.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP,BL Srinivasmurthy,PI,Janardhan PR,PSI,Manoj Kumar DS,Probationary PSI,Mahesh Kudhri,and crime staff as,Sridhar TR,Raju HP,Srinivas M, Nagaraj Nayak,Siddappa Bangiyavar,Veerendra N,Shivputtegowda,Manjunath S,Hanumantha Sandhi,Santhosh S,Mallikarjun,Hanumanthappa Talavar and others has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them in nabbing trio poachers smugglers and recovered elephant tusks a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Tumakuru bus accident: around 8 dead, 20 critically injured in Tumkur as bus overturns

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Parmesh S Jain

Atleast eight people were killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded private bus heading towards Tumakuru turned turtle on Saturday morning.

The bus driver was reportedly speeding and lost control of the wheel while negotiating a curve at Palavalli Katte near Pavagada in Tumakuru district.

The bus was heading to Pavadada from Hosakote with more than 80 passengers on board, said traffic police.

What compounded the tragedy was that it was over-crowded with people hanging out of the doors,clinging on to the ladder at the back and sitting on its roof.

When the bus turned turtle, they were flung out into the thorny bushes along the road,the police added.

Most of the passengers in the bus were students or people going to work.

The driver and the conductor escaped soon after the accident. One of the passengers travelling in the bus called his relatives in the nearby village to alert them.

Soon after, villagers arrived at the spot and shifted the injured to Pavagada, Tumakuru and other hospitals in Bengaluru. Both the driver and the conductor who survived in the accident fled the scene.

Home minister araga Jnanendra who is also the district incharge minister ordered for a detailed probe on the incident.

Expressing grief over the incident, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu in a tweet said, “Deeply anguished to hear about the loss of lives in a bus accident in Tumkur, Karnataka. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families. Prayers for the speedy recovery of the injured.

Saddened over the news,BJP leader P Muralidhar Rao tweeted,My heart goes to the families who have lost their loved ones due to bus accident at Pavagada, Karnataka.

I pray for the speedy recovery of those who are injured.

It is not the first time that the state has reported a fatal accident. In 2018, at least 30 passengers were killed after a bus plunged into a canal in the Mandya district of Karnataka.

The incident happened at the VC canal of the Cauvery river in Kanaganamaradi village of the Pandavapura taluk. Most of the deceased were school students.

Meanwhile, the Comptroller Auditor General of India (CAG) for 2020-21 released a report on March 16, saying that the roads in Bengaluru city are far more dangerous than state and national highways in Karnataka he added.

Cylinder blast in Chandra Layout 1 injured

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Parmesh S Jain

A 64-year-old man sustained severe burn injuries and the shop was damaged in an explosion caused due to LPG cylinder leakage in Gangondanahalli in Chandra layout on Saturday morning.
Residents of Gangondanahalli woke up to a explosion sound at around 6 am and rushed to help Mohammed,who owned the bakery.The injured was taken to Victoria hospital for treatment .

They rescued him and alerted the fire and emergency service personnel who rushed to the spot and put out the fire to stop spreading it from the adjacent area.

Senior officer told media persons,the victim, Mohammed who owns a bakery and staying in the shop,woke up and switched on the gas stove to make tea and instead of lighting the stove he lit a cigarette,causing explosion.

The Chandra layout police have taken up a case and are investigating further.

Bengaluru customs officials seize High quality Ephedrine worth Rs 9.23 crore hidden in stainless steel utensils consignment At Bengaluru airport

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Psrmesh S Jain

Customs sleuths of Bengaluru unit on Saturday unearthed a large stainless steel utensil consignment meant for export to Melbourne, Australia,containing Ephedrine worth Rs 9.23 crore concealed in custom made utensils with false bottoms carrying 46.79 kg of the drugs .

The custom sleuths suspect that the consignment belonging to chennai based gang which is running the drug racket.

Based on a tip off,Air Cargo wing of the Bengaluru Airport,checked the export consignments at the cargo section and stumbled upon a large section of stainless steel including jars, jugs and drums meant to be shipped to Melbourne after being declared as kitchen utensils by an exporter from Chennai.

Initially the officials did not find anything suspecious but on close examination it was found that some of the utensils bottom were unusual.

The suspects items were picked up and officials cut open one of the stainless steel drums and discovered it had a false bottom and inside it was a packet containing white powder.

As many as 52 stainless steel drums had custom-made false bottoms all containing what a lab test would later determine as high quality Ephedrine,used as a recreational drug.

A total of 46.79 kg of the substance meant to be smuggled to Australia which is estimated to be worth Rs 9.23 crore in the international market.

Further probe revealed that a persons from Chennai had come to Bengaluru Airport cargo to book the utensils consignment a few days ago.

A team went to lookout for the suspect but he is absconding. efforts are on to track down the accused,a senior official said .

Newly married woman alleged harrasment by husband commits suicide, husband arrested by subramanyanagar police

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Parmesh S Jain

A newly married 24-year-old woman ended her life at their house in Subramanyanagar on Friday night due to alleged harassment from her husband .

The deceased has been identified as Indushri, a resident of Gayathrinagar and she was married to Rakesh Kumar, an employee in BPO.

A senior police officer said that Indushri was found hanging at the room and Rakesh found her body and alerted her parents who then called Subramanyanagar police.

Indushri left suicide note that she was upset over her husband’s behavior which led her to take this extreme step .

Based on a complaint by victim’s father the police on Saturday detained Rakesh for the interrogation and a case of abetment to suicide has been registered and further investigation is on.

Banaswadi police arrested 3 inter-state robbers confiscated gold Worth Rs.38 Lakhs

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Parmesh S Jain

The East Division police of Banasawadi police on Saturday arrested a gang of three notorious inter state house breaking theft offenders and recovered 750 grams of gold valuables worth Rs.38 lakhs from them.

The accused identified as Haridas Barai,39 and Partha Haldar,32,of West Bengal and Ratan Saha, 52 from Delhi.

Senior officer told media persons,a house break theft was reported in Banaswadi police station limits in which the complainant said when they went out of station someone barged into their house and ransacked the house and made away with 750 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs.38 lakhs from their house.

After registering complaint a special team was led by DCP East,Dr Bheemashankar S Guled,under the supervision of ACP,Ningappa B Sakkiri,team headed by PI, Sathish HS and team swung into action.

The team visited the spot and after inspecting the area the team analysed CCTV footage in and around the area and based on technical inputs the team secured one person who was still in the city while his associates has taken flight with the booty.

After securing him the team grilled him and during investigation he confessed the crime and said that the two accused belongs to West Bengal and based on his statement a special team was rushed to West Bengal.

Based on his information, the police arrested the other accused from Delhi while the third accused identified as Ratan Saha,52, who was buying stolen properties from the accused was arrested .

During investigation it was revealed the used to come from West Bengal to city by flight and move around the residential areas to identify the locked houses.

Later the accused would identify the locked house by newspapers lying in front of the house and started to keep a watch for one or two days before gaining entry into the house.

Using a modus Operandi, the accused zeroed in on a house in Banasawadi and burgled a house after the family members had gone to Dubai on February 12.

A detailed investigations have revealed that the accused were involved in similar offences in Secunderabad and Delhi earlier and jailed.

DCP east division, Dr Bheemashankar S Guled, asked people to be careful while going out and inform the jurisdictional police including the milkman and the paper boys.

This will avoid undue attention of the anti social elements and also help the patrolling police to keep an eye on the locked houses,he said.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP East,Dr Bheemashankar S Guled,ACP,Ningappa B Sakkiri, PI,Sathish HS,PSIs,as,Nagaraj Nedalgi,Shahjahan Sannidhi and other crime staff who has successfully recovered the gold ornaments from the accused and for the excellent investigation by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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