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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
 In a surprise move, BBMP on Wednesday razed down several illegal structures built on encroached land, on either side of the drains in various parts of the city like Rajarajeshwarinagar and Herohalli.
The demolition drive, which started from Rajarajeshwarinagar, took the local residents off guard and did not give them enough time to respond. They alleged that they were not intimated about the drive and there was no prior notice issued. The drive was completed amidst protests.
After recent incidents of two boys being washed away in drain water, BBMP is acting tough on the constructions on drains.
The drive started at 7 am. With the help of 10 JCBs, the officials were able to raze down the constructions which had come up on the walls of the drains.
The demolition drive continued amidst strong protests from the owners of the houses for more than four hours. The officials did not pay heed to the protests and directed that the illegal structures be demolished. |
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 |
 A BMTC bus turned killer yet again and claimed two lives, leaving another severely injured, in front of Baldwin’s Boys High School near Johnson Market under Ashokanagar police station limits on Tuesday evening.
The deceased are Sher Singh and Uday Singh, who were in their late twenties.
The duo were returning from work at one of the granite shops, on a motorcycle, on Hosur Road near Adugodi when a speeding Big-10 bus first collided with a Lancer car, before knocking them down and running over them and hitting a tree on the footpath. The two were working as mosaic polishers.
Fearing the wrath of the public, the driver, Ravi, fled from the spot. He was later arrested. Ravi has held poor visibility due to rain responsible for the accident.
Praveen Sood, Additional Commissioner of Police (traffic) said, “The bus driver lost control of the vehicle and it collided head-on with the car coming from Adugodi.
Sher Singh and Uday Singh, who were trying to overtake the car, came under the tyres of the bus.” One of them died on the spot, while the other was declared brought dead at a private hospital. Subain Das, the driver of the Lancer car which was hit by the bus, is in a critical state.
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
 Two people lost their lives in three separate incidents of electrocution that were reported on Monday. Dayanand (35) died when he went to start the motor of his residence on Monday morning.
Short-circuit is said to be the reason behind the electric shock. He had suffered burns and was taken to a private hospital, where he succumbed to them.
He was a garment company employee and was residing with his wife and a child at Bhuvaneshwarinagar. Peenya Police have registered a case.
In another incident, a person who was electrocuted on Thursday, succumbed to his injuries on Monda morning.
The victim has been identified as 27-year-old Lakshman, an electrician.
While setting up a lighting system at Kanteeravanagar, he got electrocuted.
He was admitted to Victoria Hospital.
In yet another incident, a 11-year-old boy sustained burns when he went to attend the nature’s call at Gavipuram, near Ramanjaneya Temple at Hanumanthnagar on Monday.
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Monday, 28 September 2009 |
 After a massive police bandobast foiled the Opposition Congress’ plans to lay seige to the Vidhana Soudha on Saturday, the Congress workers staged a dharna by refusing to vacate the police grounds where senior leaders of the party were kept in a day-long detention.
Alleging “violation of human rights”, the leaders initially refused to vacate the City Armed Reserve (CAR) police grounds in Audugodi even after Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari visited the place twice, late evening.
But they finally relented and dispersed after Bidari met the Congress leaders for a third time in the space of four hours, late evening.
The police commissioner, after reportedly acknowledging the lapses on the part of police personnel, assured the Opposition of looking into their complaints.
The Congress was particularly aggrieved that the police — which cited security reasons to deny them entry into the Vidhana Soudha in the morning — had towards evening allowed a meeting of nearly 300 farmers to be held at the same place.
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 |
 The "baby" had done its job by finding water on the moon, India's ace space scientist and project director of the country's maiden lunar mission M. Annadurai said here Thursday.
"The baby has done its job by helping us find water on the moon," Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1, told IANS here. The mission had to be aborted Aug 30 after Chandrayaan-1 lost contact with Earth.
The mooncraft was coined 'baby' by its main architect Annadurai when it was successfully launched Oct 22, 2008 by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Terming the discovery of water molecules by the moon mineralogy mapper (M3) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US as one of the milestones of the mission, Annadurai said the scientific feat was a landmark event in international space cooperation between India and other countries.
"It is one of the milestones. We have to quantify it. It was a combined team effort. Finding presence of water or ice has been one of the mission's scientific objectives apart from terrain mapping and mineral mapping," Annadurai recalled. |
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