Gundlupet: The love affair of a youth has resulted in the relatives of the girl stabbing the elder brother of the youth to death. The incident took place in Hosuru Layout on the outskirts of Gundlupet on Saturday night. The deceased is Chikkaraju (25), son of Krishna Nayaka of the layout. According to Police sources,…
NDRF, SDRF, Fire Department return after 25-hour search operation Gundlupet: Rescue teams belonging to National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and Fire & Emergency Services Department, after conducting a 14-hour search operation, have ended their rescue operation by retrieving two more bodies yesterday. One more body was retrieved on Saturday after…
Chamarajanagar DC inspects several quarrying sites to check licences Gundlupet; Teams from National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force and Fire & Emergency Services Departments have decided to blast the huge rocks that have fallen over a backhoe to retrieve the bodies of two more persons trapped in the stone quarry collapse at…
One body retrieved; huge boulders, mud mounds impede rescue operation Minister Somanna visits spot; pulls up Mines officials for negligence Gundlupet: Rescue operations are underway at Madahalli in Gundlupet taluk where landslides occurred at a stone quarry site trapping at least three persons. The stone quarry collapsed yesterday noon and landslides occurred at three different…
Gundlupet: Chamarajanagar District Minister V. Somanna visited the Madahalli stone quarry site this morning and inspected the relief and rescue operations. He was accompanied by Gundlupet MLA C.S. Niranjan Kumar, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Charulata Somal, Superintendent of Police (SP) T.P. Shivakumar and other officials from the Department of Mines and Geology. Taking the Deputy Director…
Gundlupet: At least six labourers are feared to be dead as a hill mound, where stone quarrying was taking place, collapsed all of a sudden this noon. The incident took place at the quarry near Madahalli village on Calicut Road on the outskirts of Gundlupet. It is learnt that about 15 to 20 labourers were…
Gundlupet: A deer that was crossing the road was killed on the spot when a tipper vehicle rammed into it in front of the Post Office on National Highway on Tuesday night. Residents, who heard the sound, rushed to the spot but the tipper driver had already sped away. RFO Dr. Lokesh, DRFO Muthuraj and…
Gundlupet: Four Forest Department personnel from the Bandipur Tiger Reserve had a miraculous escape when a wild jumbo attacked their vehicle at Omkar Range in Bandipur forest of Gundlupet taluk in the early hours of yesterday. According to a press release by the Forest Department, the personnel, Deputy Range Forest Officer (DRFO) K.P. Amar, employees…
Stringent action will be taken against rash and negligent driving: Sub-Inspector Rajendra Gundlupet: In a bid to prevent fatal accidents due to rash movement of tipper vehicles in the town, Gundlupet Police have begun cracking down of speeding tipper vehicles and penalising them. Mining activities have increased in Gundlupet surroundings and in Begur limits as…
Standing ragi, jowar, sunflower crops in 70-acre land destroyed Begur: Standing crops and stored fertilisers in the fields worth several lakhs of rupees were lost as the Belachalawadi Lake near Begur in Gundlupet taluk breached yesterday. Many farmers have lost their standing crops and tonnes of fertilisers that were stored in the fields to be…
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