Pradeep Shetty re-elected president of Kanndada Sangha
Bahrain: Pradeep Shetty has been re-elected as the president of state award winning ‘Kannada Sangha’ of Bahrain. He was re-elected in the recently held 40th annual general body meeting.
Pradeep Shetty has successfully completed his first tenure as the president in the year 207-18. Following which, he has again been elected as the president for the year 2018-19.
Shetty, who has been living in gulf countries for three decades, has served as director of the department of Information and Technology in the Gulf University. Pradeep Shetty, who has been actively involved in social activities in the gulf country, has earlier served as the president of ‘Bants Bahrain’ for two terms.
In photo: Sitting (from left): Chandrahas Ill (internal auditor), Praveen Shetty Kinnigoli (treasurer), Kiran Upadayay (general secretary), Pradeep Shetty (president), D Ramesh (vice president), Varun Hegde (entertainment secretary).
Standing (from left): Ayyappa Edaneer (committee member), Mahesh Kumar K (sports secretary), Arun Irodi (assistant secretary), Prakash Anchan (committee member), Jagadish Jeppu (assistant entertainment secretary), Santosh Acharya (committee member), Ashok Kateel (vice treasurer).
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Lift collapses At Rajasthan mine, 8 officials of Hindustan Copper Limited rescued, 7 still inside
Jaipur (PTI): Eight of the fifteen members of a team of Hindustan Copper Limited who had been trapped in a mine in Neem ka Thana district since last night were rescued on Wednesday morning.
Fifteen officials of the public sector company got trapped in a mine Tuesday night when a cage used to carry the personnel fell down along the shaft after a rope broke, police said.
Three persons were rescued and taken out of the mine in the first round and five more were taken out in the second round.
Neem ka Thana Collector Sharad Mehra told reporters that remaining persons would also be taken out in around two hours.
Earlier, Dr Mahendra Singh, a part of the medical team, said the three rescued were sent to SMS hospital in Jaipur with fractures and other injuries.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma said officials have been instructed to speed up the relief and rescue operations.
"Information was received about the accident caused by the breakage of the lift rope in the Kolihan mine of Hindustan Copper Limited in Khetri, Jhunjhunu. The concerned officials have been instructed to immediately reach the spot and speed up the relief and rescue operations and provide all possible help and health facilities to the affected," he said in a post on X.
A vigilance team, along with senior officials and workers of the state-owned company, had gone inside the mine for an inspection.
However, when they were about to come up, the rope holding the cage broke due to which it collapsed and the personnel were trapped at a depth of several hundred feet, police said.
