QBengaluru: Chemists Down Shutters in State; BBMP Polls Today
The latest news updates from Bengaluru.
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1. Chemists to Down Shutters Today
Opposing online sale of medicines and alleging loopholes in the draft regulations on e-pharmacies published by the Centre recently, the Karnataka Chemists and Druggists’ Association has called for a statewide pharmacy bandh on Friday.
Over 20,000 chemists, who are members of the association will participate in the bandh by shutting shop for 24 hours starting midnight Friday till midnight Saturday. The strike call is in support of the nationwide call given by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists.
A K Jeevan, general secretary of the association, said the strike will not cause hardship to the public as all drug outlets in hospitals and nursing homes will function as usual.
(Source: The Hindu)
2. BBMP Polls: Congress Shifts 5 Independent Corporators to Resort
To avoid alleged horse-trading, the Congress party on late Thursday night shifted five independent corporators to a resort in Bengaluru ahead of the elections to the posts of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)
The elections are due to be held later today.
The election was necessitated following the terms of Sampath Raj and Padmavathi Narasimhamurthy as the mayor and deputy mayor of BBMP respectively ended on Thursday.
In the 2015 polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single-largest party with winning 100 seats out of the total 198. Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) managed to get only 76 and 14 seats respectively.
(Source: Business Standard)
3. IISc Bengaluru Highest-Ranked Indian Institution in List of World’s Top Universities
The Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru has retained its position as the highest-ranked higher education institute in the country in the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings for 2019, which was released on Wednesday. The Indian Institute of Technology in Indore came second, ahead of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay.
However, no Indian education institute features in the global top 250 universities. The number of Indian institutions in the rankings has increased from 42 last year to 49, making it the fifth most-represented country.
(Source: Scroll.in)
4. Man Gets 7 years Imprisonment for Sexually Assaulting Minor Girl in Belagavi
A court in Karnataka has sentenced a 28-year-old man to seven years rigorous imprisonment for abducting and sexually assaulting a minor girl in Belagavi in 2014.
Additional district and sessions court judge B R Pallavi upheld the arguments of special public prosecutor on Wednesday and convicted Sangamesh Koppad of Bagalkote district.
The judge awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for rape under IPC Section 376, and five years RI for kidnapping under IPC Section 366 besides imposing a penalty of Rs 12,000 under Section 4 of the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
(Source: Business Standard)
5. Man Walks Into Police Station With Severed Head of Lover in Kolar
Representational image of a crime scene.
(Photo: iStockPhoto)Police personnel at Srinivasapura police station were going about their day when a man calmly entered the station with a backpack on Thursday.
When police asked him what his problem was, he kept quiet and opened his bag. To the horror of the policemen, the bag had a severed head of a woman. Police said that the man later confessed that he had chopped off the head of his paramour who, he said, had cheated on him. Police immediately arrested him.
SP Rohini Katoch Sepat told The New Indian Express the person is Azith Khan alias Saddam (28) of Jaffarkhan Mohalla of Srinivasapura. He owns a mobile repair centre and also works as a salesman in a private company.
Sepat said that Khan is married and has three children. He, however, was in a relationship with Rohan Khanum (25), a resident of Neelasandra in Bengaluru who was deserted by her husband and had a child.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
6. ‘BBMP Showed far Less Potholes in Reports’
The commission set up by the Karnataka High Court has found that the number of potholes shown in the reports given by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is far less than the number of potholes entered in the measurement books and executed at ground in seven wards each in Malleswaram and Mahalakshmi Layout areas of the West zone.
The number of potholes shown in the reports is only 20-25% of those entered in the measurement books and executed at ground, it has been disclosed in the second preliminary report submitted before a division bench comprising Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice S G Pandit on Thursday.
(Source: The Hindu)