Archives for 2022

Parmesh S JAIN

BJP will get absolute majority and come to power on its own strength in the 2023 Assembly elections in the State.

People will bless us with full majority enabling us to govern the State again,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Speaking to media persons in Savanur he said,I attended the swearing-in ceremony of Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second term.

BJP’s victory in 4 States has created a political ripple in the entire country.The victory in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh,Manipur and Goa is a clear pointer to the Lok Sabha polls to be held in 2024.

A huge mandate is evident in Karnataka too. BJP will come to power on its own with absolute majority in the 2023 assembly election in the State,” Bommai said.

Will contest from Shiggaon only

Replying to a question about the possibility of contesting from two constituencies in 2023, Bommai said,” people of Shiggaon have handed me victory three times. I will contest from Shiggaon only this time too.”

Abide by the HC verdict

Reacting to developments related to the hijab issue, Bommai said, the uniform rules in the schools is being followed for many years.

A confusion is being created due to the provocations from some vested interests even after the High Court delivered its judgement.

Despite this, we have maintained law and order in the State.The High Court verdict should be followed.Every one should respect the law of the land, Bommai said.

Peace and harmony is the solution

In response to a question about ban on business by traders belonging to other religions around the Temples, Bommai said, there is a clear order by the Endowment department regarding this issued in 2002.

This is not a new rule.The issue could be resolved through talks with a spirit of peace and harmony.

When asked about leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah’s comments on head coverings of women, “you better ask Siddaramaiah,” Bommai quipped.

There is a clear High Court order on school uniforms.There should not be any provocation on the issue, he said. .

Parmesh S JAIN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Karnataka on April 5 to launch a slew of special programmes for the development of the State,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was speaking to media persons at Hubballi airport.

Union minister Amit Shah to inaugurate ‘Ksheera Abhivridhi Bank’

Union minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah is set to visit the State on April 1.Shah is keen to bring major reforms in the Cooperation sector and the state government is set to start ‘Ksheera Abhivridhi Bank’.

Shah would launch the Logo of the ‘Ksheera Abhivridhi Bank’ and the Yeshaswini programme during his visit.

A huge convention is being organised as part of the launch programme as it would give a big boost for the dairy sector, Bommai said.

The cabinet expansion issue will have to be discussed with the party top brass in Delhi. I will go to Delhi when the leadership calls me.

Parmesh S JAIN

One Station One Product” is a novel initiative that was announced in the Union Budget 2022-23 in a bid to promote local artisans / products / industries.

The initiative aims to promote local products by making each railway station a promotional and sales hub for the product.

Shyam Singh,Divisional Railway Manager, Bengaluru Division,today,inaugurated the ‘Stall of Channapatna toys under One Station -One product Scheme announced in the Union Budget 2022-23, at KSR Bengaluru Railway station.

It is an initiative by Ministry of Railways to promote local products in Railway Stations under Atma Nirbhar Bharath Abhiyan,a vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister,to make India a self-reliant nation.

The objective of the initiative is to encourage local craftsmen and artisans to market their product more effectively.

KSR Bengaluru is the first Railway Station in the State to market the famed Channapatna Toys.

Channapatna toys are special wooden toys and dolls manufactured in Channapatna town popularly known as “gombegala Ooru,(Toy Town) in Ramanagara district of Karnataka and have the Geographical Indicator (GI) tag.

Bengaluru Division has alloted a stall on pilot basis for promotion of Channapatna toys to V. Prakash,a local craftsman associated with Channapatna Handicrafts Artists Association .

Dr Anup Dayanand Sadhu,Chief Commercial Manager, Passenger Services, Smt Kusuma Hariprasad, Additional Divisional Railway Manager (Admin) Dr. A.N. Krishna Reddy, Sr. Divisional Commercial Manager, were present on the occasion.

Parmesh S JAIN

TB (Tuberculosis) has been detected among several people who have recovered from COVID-19.

The government has sought a detailed report on this, said Health and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar.

Speaking at an event organized by the Health Department on the occasion of the ‘World TB Day,’ he said,For the first time in India,TB screening has been conducted by government for those who have recovered from COVID-19 in the state.

Among 25 lakh people who were tested, 144 people were found to have TB. These people have contracted TB after recovering COVID-19.

So,the government has sought a detailed report on incidence of TB in Covid-19 recovered patients.

The State government is committed to make Karnataka TB free by 2025.

TB,like COVID-19,is a contagious disease.

COVID-19 is caused by a virus and TB is caused by a bacteria.The WHO has said that the entire world must be made TB free by 2030.

However, our Union government led by our PM Narendra Modi Ji has aimed to make India TB free much before that by 2025.

This cannot be done just by doctors and the government.The entire society needs to join hands and work collectively to achieve this target, he said.

Instead of starting treatment after the disease gets severe, treatment must be initiated at the initial stage as soon as symptoms become apparent.

People must undergo test if any of these symptoms are seen – cough for more than two weeks,fevers in the evening,sudden weight loss etc.

All government hospitals have facilities to conduct TB tests.People must go to the hospitals and get the test done. If detected early, the treatment given will be more effective, he said.

In rural areas, people don’t get tested even if they are unwell. One TB patient can spread the disease to at least 10 people. If this happens,one person’s negligence will end up harming others.

So, a lot more awareness has to be created about TB. The State government is spending more than Rs.5 crore every year to create awareness about diseases.

Fight the disease, not the patient

If a contagious disease is detected, immediately the people will start fighting the patient.We need to end such stigma in the society.Such stigma will cause mental and emotional distress among patients.

We must work towards supporting these people emotionally.Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic we have conducted over 25 lakh mental health counselling sessions with the help of NIMHANS.

Similarly,along with treatment for TB, the patient and their families need to be counseled. Additionally, once it is identified that a person has TB, they must be guided to isolate and ensured that others in their family are kept safe.

TB-free Karnataka

5 districts in our state have received Silver medals for curbing TB. In these districts, if we compare the previous years’ statistics, there has been a reduction of 40%.

Similarly, 9 districts have received Bronze medals. It is commendable that a total of 14 districts have significantly curbed TB. In future years, more measures need to be taken to curb TB and we must receive a Gold medal. We must ensure TB-free Karnataka by 2025, he said.

Parmesh S Jain

In a swift action the Mahadevapura police arrested a gang of four who had come from Delhi to a music event in pheonix mall to steal mobile phones.

The accused has been identified as,Sadam,32,Waseem Ahmed,32, Mohammed Adil,33,and Irshad,29 all four residents of Delhi.

The police cracked the case within two hours of the theft and arrested the accused and recovered 24 phones from them worth Rs 10.5 lakh.

However the fifth accused managed to gave the police a slip and escaped with mobile phones.
efforts are on to track him down.

H Hariyappa,Inspector Mahadevapura,who led the operation has successfully nabbed all the four and recovered expensive phones from them.

The Incident occurred on Saturday night when the music event organized for Holi festival was going on and where around 2,000 guests visited.

The accused who came to know about the event booked the tickets online and came to Bengaluru by train and gained entry.

While the over enthusiastic crowd was high on music and drinks,the accused started stealing expensive phones from the crowd and storing it in their specially designed multi pocket jackets.

One of the guest who noticed the phone was stolen raised alarm.Other guests also alerted and upon checking their phones were also missing.

They raised alarm prompting the police to shut the exit gates and started closely observing the people coming out and caught the accused .

The accused are habitual offenders and their modus operandi is to get into the big events and steal expensive gadgets and valuables and they used to return to Delhi and sell it in Meena bazar a senior officer said.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP Whitefield,Girish S,ACP,Shanthamallapa, PI,Hariyappa H,PSIs,as,Sarojini Waghmore,Harsha S,and crime staff as,Ramesh,Suresh, Shivakumar, Purshottam, Bhaskar Kambar,Shivaraj, Hariprasad,Srinivas,Anjanappa Bandivadar,Balaraju has been appreciated for the timely action taken by them and arresting four notorious mobile lifting gang and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Parmesh S JAIN

The Yeshwanthpura police on Thursday arrested a gang of three interstate habitual offenders and recovered 15 grams of gold valuables and a fake pistol from them.

The accused have been identified as Amith,from Uttar Pradesh and his associates Manohar Singh and Ramesh from Rajasthan.

senior officer said the trio had barged into the house of Kamal Singh, a gold and cosmetic jewel shop owner,threatened the three woman including Ms.Singh her mother and daughter at gun point and robbed a pair of gold ear rings.

The accused also assaulted the trio when they tried to resist snatching mobile phone from the mother of Ms.Singh.

The accused soon fled the scene when they raised alarm prompting the neighbors to come to heir help.

In the melee one of the accused had dropped a chit from his pocket at home and the police who later visited the spot for spot investigations recovered the chit.

Based on the details from the chit the police track down the accused and arrested them.

Amith had come to Bengaluru a fortnight ago and stayed with the other accused Manohar Singh and Suresh who worked as labourers at a hardware shop .

Amith had a gun lighter and the trio hatched a plan to rob people and make quick money. As per the plan the accused kept a watch on the houses for few days and zeroed in on the house of Kamal Singh .

The accused Manohar Singh is a habitual offender involved in a robbery case in Rajasthan in 2019.

He was arrested and after coming out on bail, he jumped bail and came to India and working as salesman at a hardware shop since then.

The police have taken the trio into custody to ascertain their criminal background.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil DCP North,Vinayak Patil,ACP,Arun Nagegowda,PI,Suresh K,PSIs,as,Narayan,Raju C and crime staff as,Muthappa Bajanthri,Rachappa Haki,Dattatreya Badigere,Lokesh Sannidhi,Motta Nayak has been appreciated and for the exemplary work done by them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Parmesh S JAIN

A 47-year-old motorcycle rider was killed after a speeding truck knocked down his vehicle on HAL Outer Ring Road on Thursday.

The deceased has been identified as G M Joseph Mathew, a resident of Balaji Layout and was working in a BPO at Devarabeesanahalli.

The truck driver was over speeding the vehicle when the mishap occurred and the residents blamed that the accident occurred due to narrow traffic and addition of cycle and bus lanes on Outer Ring road.

Traffic movement was affected on the busy outer ring road for sometime following the incident as the passers-by gathered on the spot and started recording the mishap on their mobile phones before alerting the police.

Senior officer visited the spot and said,the accident took place at around 9am when Mathew was going to office on Outer Ring road.

Meanwhile an over speeding truck which was behind him knocked his bike.He slipped from the bike and fell down under the wheel sustaining severe head injuries and died on the spot.

The HAL traffic police who rushed to the spot and seized the truck.

The driver abondoned the vehicle and escaped from the spot soon after the mishap.A case of reckless driving and death due to negligence has been registered against the driver and further investigating.

Parmesh S JAIN

A Nineteen-year-old Chaitanya sustained severe burns and battling for life in transformer blast incident in Jnanabharathi succumbed on Thursday.

Chaitanya’s father Shivaraju,55,a security guard who was also injured and admitted to hospital succumbed on Wednesday .

Senior officer told media persons,that the officials concerned will be summoned for questioning and based on their statement necessary action would be initiated based on the statement and the culpability .

It may be recalled that Shivaraju,resident of Manganahalli and his only daughter,Chaitanya were returning home after booking marriage hall for her engagement vent scheduled next month.

While they were passing by the transformer on ullal main road in Manganahalli,a few yards away from their house,an explosion occurred from the transformer and oil splashed on them followed by fire .

The duo slipped from the scooter and raised alarm for help.

passers-by rushed to their help and put out the fire and rushed them to victoria hospital in am ambulance before alerting the police and fire control room.

The residents also angry over the negligent attitude of the BESCOM and blamed the officials for the deaths.

Residents alleged that they had noticed smoke , oil spill from the transformer and alerted the BESCOM control room.

Though the control room staff assured to attend the complaint soon, no one turned up until the explosion.

Karnataka Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar said on Thursday that negligence in addressing a complaint had led to Wednesday’s transformer blast in Bengaluru that claimed the lives of a man and his daughter.

Kumar told the Assembly that the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) had received a complaint at 12.50pm but it was not addressed.The explosion took place around 3.10pm.A strict action will be taken on those who showed negligence in addressing the issue.

BJP MLA S Suresh Kumar, who raised the incident in the House, said innocent people’s lives were at risk on Bengaluru’s roads.

The energy minister said the government would give Rs 10 lakh each for the victims’ relatives. “I will also hold a meeting with the Bescom officials on conducting an audit of faulty transformers and transformers installed on the roadside,” he said.

The Jnanabharathi police booked Bescom officials for negligence but have not made any arrest and further investigation is on.

Parmesh S JAIN

The Northeast Division police of Vidyaranyapura police on Thursday arrested a 31-year-old woman house break thief and recovered 75 grams of gold and 630 grams of silver articles from her.

The accused has been identified as,Jayanthi Kuttiyamma,resident of Bhairasandra worked as domestic help but habitual offender involved in over 23 house break thefts reported in and around the city.

Senior officer told media persons,the Vidyaranayapura police inspector received a complaint of 2 house break thefts in their locality.

The Vidyaranayapura police inspector,V Anil Kumar and his team swung into action the team with crime team visited the crime spot and after inspecting the area with the local intelligence and police investigation skills the team identified the culprit.

The team kept a close watch on the domestic help in their area and after getting suspicious on her behaviour the team secured her and took her to station for questioning.

During investigation the team got suspicious on her and took her into custody as her statement dint convince to the crime team the team grilled her in their own style and which forced her to confessed the crime and based on her statement the team recovered 75 grams gold and 630 grams of silver ornaments from her.

A detailed investigation by the team it was found the accused would move around the city and identify the locked house and steal them by breaking into the houses and it was found she is habitual offender wanted in 23 HBT cases further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP Northeast,Dr Anoop A Shetty,PI,V Anil Kumar and crime team as,PSI,Jameer M Avathi,SA Suresh,Shashikumar, Shivaprasad,Girish Jadav,Purshottam,Errappa Kumbar,Mudasir Nazar,Ganapathi khawasi, Prasad TC and other staff has been appreciated for nabbing the notorious habitual house break-in women thief a suitable reward will be given to the team for the commendable job done by them he added.

PARMESH S jain

The whitefield Division police of Whitefield police on Wednesday arrested three bike lifters and recovered 39 stolen bikes worth Rs.50 lakh from them.

The accused has been identified as,Anand,29, Mahalingaiah,27 and Chittaiah,26 from Andhra Pradesh.

Girish S, DCP Whitefield,told reporters Based on a series of bike theft case,a high level meeting was called in which all crime staffs of all the stations were present as in the meeting we motivated them and given free hands to them to detect crime and take precautions to control crime.

After the meeting a special team was formed under the supervision of ACP,Shanthamallapa,team headed by PI, Shantaram swung into action the team visited the crime spot and coloborated CCTV footage from the vicinity and in one of the CCTV footage the crime team identified the identity of the accused.

The team with the help of local intelligence and other technology skill the police track down the accused and arrested them.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and it was found that the accused hails from Andhra Pradesh and Tumakuru used to move around residential apartments which have no security measures and steal bikes from the basements in whitefield division.

The accused are experts in breaking the locks and using duplicate keys to steal bikes .

The team grilled them who spilled the beans and based on their statement the team recovered 39 stolen bikes worth Rs.50 lakhs which they have sold It in Andhra Pradesh and rural parts of Tumakuru to their customers for throwaway prices .

We have handed over the keys of the recovered bikes to its rightful owners,after obtaining court permission.

We appeal to citizens and apartment owners to ensure adequate security measures to prevent thefts and other criminal offences in their vicinity.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP Whitefield,Girish S, ACP,Shanthamallapa,PI,Shantaram,PSI,Naveen Kumar AV,Srinivas S,and crime staff as, Venkatesh,Rajagopal,Muniraju,Yaseen Pasha,Munnikrishna,Sharanbasappa,Tejaswin Nayak,and Madan kumar has been appreciated for the commendable and excellent investigation and work done by them in nabbing the trio and recovering stolen bikes from them a special reward will be given to the team he added.