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  • People should stop burgling fence on express highway: MP Pratap Simha

    People should stop burgling fence on express highway: MP Pratap Simha

    MP Pratap Simha urged the people not to burgle fence, anglers and bracings on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Express Highway.

    Speaking to media persons here on Friday, he said that they are planning to seek Rs 80 crore from the state government to install CCTV cameras for surveillance on the expressway.

    “Until then, people should not steal these fences, as it is their own property. Express highway is access controlled, since vehicles move in high speed. People should not remove the fence to cross roads, for their own safety,” he said.

    Regarding water logging on the expressway, during rain, Simha said, “It is only when it rain, we will know the problems, we will clear blocked holes and fix the issue.”

    Ch’nagar Covid death investigation

    Reacting to the state government’s plan to order an investigation into the death due to oxygen shortage in Chamarajanagar during the Covid pandemic, Simha said, “The government should order investigation regarding all allegations made during the election, including 40% commission. Those who have taken a bribe should not be in the BJP. They should be in jail. We want the BJP to be clean.”

    On appointment of leader of opposition in the Assembly, he said that it would be decided before the new state government presents its new budget.

    Simha said that they have finished land acquisition for Mysuru-Kushalnagar four-lane road. The work will begin shortly, he added.

  • 5 flagship guarantees to be rolled out in 3 months: CM Siddaramaiah

    5 flagship guarantees to be rolled out in 3 months: CM Siddaramaiah

    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said his government will implement the five flagship guarantees in a phased manner over the next three months amid mounting pressure for their roll out.

    The Cabinet greenlighted the schemes’ roadmap on Friday, presenting Siddaramaiah, also the finance minister, a tough fiscal challenge as he has to mobilise a whopping Rs 53,000-Rs 61,000 cr to execute them.

    Gruha Jyoti, Gruha Lakshmi, Anna Bhagya, Shakti and Yuva Nidhi will be implemented in the current fiscal year, Siddaramaiah said at a packed news conference after chairing a special Cabinet meeting on the guarantees that propelled the Congress to power. 

    The schemes will also cover transgenders, he added. 

    Siddaramaiah said he and his deputy DK Shivakumar had signed guarantee cards that were distributed to voters before the May 10 Assembly polls.

    “Opposition parties criticised us even before implementation. The Cabinet meeting was specially called to discuss the implementation of the five guarantees. We discussed it at length,” the CM said. 

    Shivakumar described the Cabinet decision as “historic” and “huge” while insisting that the Congress had kept its promise. “This is the land of Basavanna where one walks the talk,” he said. 

    Asked about the financial implications of the guarantees, Siddaramaiah declined to comment. “I’ll provide those details later,” he said.  

    In July, Siddaramaiah is slated to present a record 14th budget as finance minister. 

    According to one official estimate, the cost for rolling out Gruha Lakshmi is approximately Rs 30,000 crore (1.2 crore women). Similarly, Gruha Jyothi  will cost Rs 15,000 crore (1.4 crore households), Anna Bhagya Rs 1,000 crore (1.31 cr families), Shakti Rs 4,000 crore and Yuva Nidhi Rs 2,000 crore (about 5 lakh youths), respectively. 

    Sources in the finance department said the government is broadly looking at additional borrowings and rationalising expenditure by cutting funds to or shutting down a few projects started by previous governments. 

    While Siddaramaiah explained the modalities, the government is likely to issue detailed guidelines on rolling out the schemes. 

    Under Gruha Jyothi, for example, there is no clarity on whether or not consumers have to pay fixed charges and taxes. Another ambiguity is that there are 2.14 crore domestic power connections against 1.6 crore families. “We need to rationalise this,” a senior official said. 

  • Coromandal Express Accident: Restoration work begins, says Vaishnaw

    Coromandal Express Accident: Restoration work begins, says Vaishnaw

    Bhubaneswar: Nearly 18 hours after the massive train tragedy in Odisha’s Balasore district, restoration work has begun at the accident site, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.

    The overturned coaches are being removed from the tracks through cranes, he said.

    “We will conduct a detailed investigation to reach out the root cause behind the accident and we will take necessary steps to ensure that such an accident will not reoccur in future,” Vaishnaw said.

    Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was at the accident site, sought cooperation from the locals to carry out the restoration and relief work by the Railway. He also thanked the locals for extending help in the rescue operation.

    Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached the accident spot. She will take stock of the rescue work and interact with the injured passengers from West Bengal at the hospital.

    The death toll in the massive accident of three trains including two express trains rose to 261.

    According to information given by South Eastern Railway, the death toll in the train tragedy has been increased to 261 and the figure may go up as rescue operation is yet to complete.

    Over 900 persons have been injured in the mishap. The injured passengers have been admitted in Gopalpur, Khantapara, Balasore, Bhadrak, Soro and Cuttack SCB hospitals, the Railway officials said.

  • CM Naveen Patnaik thanks local people for carrying out rescue operations at accident spot

    CM Naveen Patnaik thanks local people for carrying out rescue operations at accident spot

    Balasore: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik on Saturday reached Balasore to assess the aftermath of the horrific train accident that took place at near Bahanaga Station in Balasore on Friday evening.

    He also went to the Balasore District Head quarters Hospital to take stock of treatment requirements of the injured persons.

    CM Naveen Patnaik said, “An extremely tragic train accident.I have to thank the local teams, local people & others who have worked overnight to save people from the wreckage.Railway safety should always be given the first preference.The people have been taken to hospitals in Balasore and Cuttack so that they recover as fast as possible.”

    In response to the tragedy, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw also inspected the accident site and ordered a thorough high-level inquiry into the mishap. “A detailed high-level inquiry will be conducted, and the rail safety commissioner will also conduct an independent investigation,” Vaishnaw announced.

    Union Minister of Education and Skill Development Dharmendra Pradhan, curtailed his visit to Kolkata and immediately headed to Balasore where several coaches of a passenger train derailed after colliding with a goods train.

  • ‘The person you are calling is no more’, aftermaths of Balasore train tragedy comes to light

    ‘The person you are calling is no more’, aftermaths of Balasore train tragedy comes to light

    Balasore: Odisha experienced the biggest train accident of the century with over 233 casualties and 900 injuries. On Friday evening, Coromandel Express train derailed after colliding with good train in Bahanaga Station in Balasore of Odisha leading to loss of lives in huge number.

    In such a situation, heart-wrenching scenes of strangers receiving calls from dead bodies and informing the deceased’s families about their demise is coming forward.

    The Howrah-Chennai Coromandel train was carrying thousands of passengers from all over the country. As the news of the accident is now all over the nation, the family of the passengers have been trying to contact them over the call to know their whereabouts. As the deceased cannot receive the calls, the residents and workers present in the hospital are receiving the call and informing them about the demise of the person.

    Meanwhile, the rescue operation is still continuing even after 12 hours of the mishap, informed Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena. The Chief Secy also informed that rescue operation is taking time as the last coach of the ill-fated train Coromandel has been extensively damaged while another coach has climbed onto it.

    NDRF and other personnel are carrying out the rescue operations. Several volunteers came forward and at present there is a stock of 900 units of blood in Balasore following a massive donation by the locals. Similarly, volunteers are also ready to donate blood in Bhadrak and Cuttack. The process of identifying the bodies and autopsy has already started.

    The bodies will be dispatched to their destinations after autopsy. The statutory procedure to identify the bodies has also been started, informed Chief Secy.

    Note-worthy, that over 900 passengers are stated to be injured while more than 238 died as 8-10 bogies of the train skidded off the track after being hit by goods train near Bahanaga.

    HELPLINE NUMBER:

    Disaster management Numbers at GRC- 03324503371, 03324397928

    • Rly Number – 46060, 46061.
    • HWH – 033-26382217.
    • KGP- 8972073925, 9332392339.
    • BLS- 8249591559, 7978418322.
    • SHM- 9903370746.

    Helpline numbers set up by SWR at

    • Bangalore: 080-22356409
    • Bangarpet: 08153 255253
    • Kuppam : 8431403419
    • SMVB : 09606005129
    • KJM :+91 88612 03980
  • Crazy lover tried to slit girl’s throat, killed himself

    Crazy lover tried to slit girl’s throat, killed himself

    New Delhi (IANS) | A 24-year-old crazy lover tried to slit the throat of a 19-year-old girl and later committed suicide in Delhi’s Rohini area. An official gave this information on Saturday. The official said the teenager is undergoing treatment and her condition remains critical.

    According to the police, the police control room received information regarding the slitting of throat of a 19-year-old girl in Sector-24, Rohini, following which a police team reached the spot.

    A senior police officer said that the injured girl, a resident of Rithala, was admitted to the BSA hospital, where she is undergoing treatment. Initial inquiry revealed that accused Amit, a resident of JJ Colony, Sector 25, Rohini, also committed suicide by hanging himself in the office of ‘Creative Concept Design’, a company run by his sister and brother-in-law (Anil).

    The victim girl is an employee of that company, the officer said. During further enquiry, it was revealed that Amit (now deceased) was also working as an exhibition stall designer in the same office and was in unrequited love with the girl, who avoided him and stopped talking.

    Around 3 pm on Friday, Amit attacked the girl with a knife and tried to slit her throat but was saved by other people in the office.

    When the office staff was taking the injured girl to the hospital, Amit locked himself in a room and committed suicide by hanging himself, the officer said.

    Crime and forensic teams were called to the spot and photographs were taken from different angles, the officer said. Amit’s body has been shifted to the mortuary of BSA Hospital. Further action is being taken.

    –IANS

  • Delhi Metro Launches TBM ‘Bhoomi’ On Section Of Ph-IV Corridor

    Delhi Metro Launches TBM ‘Bhoomi’ On Section Of Ph-IV Corridor

    The Delhi Metro on Friday started a tunnelling drive by the Tunnel Boring Machine named “Bhoomi” from Derawal Nagar to Pulbangash on an upcoming corridor under its ‘Phase IV’ project, officials said.

    The TBM was launched at Derawal Nagar metro station site on ‘Line 8’, being built from Janakpuri West to R K Ashram, in the presence Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director Vikas Kumar and other senior officials, they said.The length of the tunnel is approximately 3 kilometres. The depth of tunnelling will vary from 12.4 meters at Derawal Nagar station up to 25.9 m near the Najafgarh Drain. Therefore, the TBM will traverse through varying geological levels underground, the DMRC said in a statement. In a first-of-its-kind exercise, the Delhi Metro is equipping all its TBMs with the BEAM (Bore Tunneling Electrical Ahead Monitoring) System in this phase, officials said.

    It enables the TBM to predict on a real-time basis the geological strata, up to 20 metre ahead of the machine’s cutter head face, and predict any unexpected encounter with filled wells, cavities, and aquifers which may lead to settlement over the ground if hit by the TBM without proper treatment, the statement said.

    The BEAM system is a non-intrusive ground predicting technique especially designed for the underground construction industry. It can be used in any hard rock, soft and mixed ground geology, under or below the groundwater table and thus in any type of boring machine like Earth pressure balance (EPB), slurry, gripper, single or double-shielded TBMs, independent from the TBM manufacturer, it added.

    The tunnel shall pass below many residential and commercial areas on the G T Karnal Road such as Derawal Nagar, Rana Pratap Bagh, Shakti Nagar, Kamla Nagar, Ghanta Ghar, Subzi Mandi and Roshanara Road.

    At present, four TBMs are operational across the city in the three priority corridors namely, Janakpuri West to RK Ashram Marg, Majlis Park to Maujpur and Tughlakabad to Aerocity under Phase IV, it said. A total of 28 km of new underground corridors are being constructed as part of this phase.

    -With PTI Input

  • Seven more Punjabi women brought to India from Oman

    Seven more Punjabi women brought to India from Oman

    Chandigarh (IANS) | Seven women and a boy from Punjab returned to their families on Friday at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. With this, the total number of women evacuated from Oman in two weeks under Mission Hope, spearheaded by Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, Vikram Sahni, has gone up to 24.

    Sahni said that Mission Hope, launched last month, is achieving great success. He is determined to bring back every Punjabi girl stuck in Oman.

    “Our teams are working on a war footing and have visited Oman twice to liaise with all the stakeholders to expedite the rescue operation at the earliest,” he said.

    Sahni said they have hired a reputed immigration law firm in Oman, which is fighting a legal battle to expedite the process of repatriating these girls.

    “Our lawyers are connecting with the sponsors and agents of these women and paying fees to get all the necessary documents for these girls to go back home,” he said.

    Sahni told that the women who came on Saturday are residents of Jalandhar, Shahkot, Phillaur, Jagraon, Patti, Tarn Taran, Nakodar and Bathinda.

    They were lured by the false allure of employment of unscrupulous agents and so-called manpower consultants.

    A boy from Jalandhar, who was working as a sevadar in a local Gurdwara in Muscat, was saved by paying an overstay penalty.

    Sahni, the international president of the Punjabi organization, is bearing the entire cost of the fines that the sponsors are demanding for unfair contracts and cancellation of their air tickets etc. of these women.

    Sahni also runs a community kitchen at a shelter home in Muscat where women from different parts of India are seeking refuge in Muscat.

    Sahni said that all the seven rescued women would go to their nearest police stations and file an FIR against their respective agents who cheated them and sent them to Oman on false promises.

    –IANS

  • Two superfast railway lines to connect Telangana, Andhra Pradesh

    Two superfast railway lines to connect Telangana, Andhra Pradesh

    HYDERABAD: In welcome news for the railway passengers of the Telugu states, the Union government has approved the construction of two new superfast railway lines connecting Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Railway authorities have been instructed to conduct the necessary surveys to enhance connectivity between these regions.

    One of the proposed superfast railway lines will run between Shamshabad (Umdanagar Railway Station) and Visakhapatnam via Vijayawada. This line will prove highly beneficial as it will offer direct connectivity to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad for passengers travelling from different parts of Andhra Pradesh heading to the Middle East. This will be the first time that Umdanagar will have a direct superfast railway line.

    The other new railway line will connect Visakhapatnam and Kurnool via Kacheguda. There has been a significant demand for the introduction of more trains towards Mahbubnagar and Kurnool. The Railway Board has granted approval for the necessary survey to strengthen connectivity between the two States with the construction of these two new superfast railway lines.

    The Railway Board has communicated to the South Central Railway zone instructing them to conduct surveys for the first railway line between Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada in AP as well as between Shamshabad and Visakhapatnam.

    A survey will also be carried out for the second railway line. The technical feasibility required for the implementation of the superfast railway project along these routes will be determined through these surveys. Once the surveys are completed, the project will move forward.

    Union Minister G Kishan Reddy has held multiple meetings with Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and submitted letters highlighting the benefits that these superfast railway lines will bring to the Telugu states.

    Taking this into consideration, the Railway Board has recently decided to conduct surveys for the superfast railway lines on these two routes.”The technical feasibility required to undertake the super-fast railway project on these routes will be determined through the survey. The survey will be completed in six months after which the project will be taken forward. Together, these two railway lines will account for a length of 942 km route (to travel at a maximum speed of 220 kmph),” according to a release by Minister Kishan’s office.

  • No merger with any party, will fight polls alone, says Sharmila

    No merger with any party, will fight polls alone, says Sharmila

    HYDERABAD: While dismissing the rumours of YSRTP merging with BRS or Congress, the party’s president YS Sharmila on Thursday predicted that the ruling BRS will not win more than 30 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections, Speaking to the media after paying tributes to Telangana Martyrs at the Martyrs Memorial in Gun Park on Thursday, she recalled how 14 Congress MLAs joined the BRS after 2018 elections and asked: “what is the guarantee that Congress won’t continue to be a supplying company for BRS.”

    “Both BJP and Congress have been acting as stooges of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. YSRTP is the only party that has been fighting for the cause of the people,” she added.“I have not completed 3,850 km padayatra to merge YSRTP with Congress. If I really want to join any party, there will be no objection from anyone. Even if I want to join hands with KCR will he say no? It is not proper to talk about merger of my party, after all the hard work I have done. It is nothing but insulting a woman,” she said.

    Stating that the YSRTP will fight the elections alone, Sharmila said that the party was identifying candidates to contest from all Assembly constituencies, and that the talk of an alliance would only come at a later stage.She said that only if all the parties gave an assurance that they were solidly against the chief minister, she would consider any form of an alliance.Sharmila also asked the CM to respond to 10 questions she posed before starting the decennial Telangana Formation Day celebrations.

    “How many jobs were filled in 10 years? What was your family’s wealth before and after these 10 years? What happened to the promise of making a Dalit the chief minister? Is it not true that your government has sold 30,000 acres during this decade? What happened to KG to PG free education? If farmers have become millionaires as you claim, then why have 9,000 farmers died by suicide under your rule? You had promised to irrigate one crore acres. How many have you irrigated? What is the condition of the families of Telangana martyrs,” she asked.