Mangaluru Journalist Vijay Kotian donates award money of PaGo Award to feed hungry
Mangaluru: The winner of the 2019 Pa Go (Padyana Gopalakrishna) Rural Correspondent Award conferred by Dakshina Kannada Working Journalist’s Association, Journalist Vijay Kotian set an example by donating the winning award money to the Karunya Scheme run by M. Friends Charitable Trust.
Vijay Kotian, who is a senior correspondent for the Vijay Karnataka Newspaper donated a sum of Rs. 5,001 of the Award money along with an additional amount of Rs 2,499, a total of Rs 7,500 to the Karunya Scheme, through the senior journalist Arif Padubidri, the secretary of M. Friends Charitable Trust during the Pa Go Award Presentation Ceremony, which was held at the Mangalore Press Club on 31st of December.
During the occasion, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr. Rajendra K.V, District Police Superintendent B.M Lakshmiprasad, DCP Vinay Gaonkar, D.K District’s Working Journalists Association’s President Srinivas Nayak Indaje, and several others were present.
Under the ‘Karunya Scheme’ developed by the M. Friends Charitable Trust, everyday dinner arrangements are made to feed the people accompanying the patients at the Wenlock Government Hospital in Mangalore. The daily expenditure for this cause amounts to Rs. 7,500 as per the Trust. Vijay Kotian took it upon himself to oversee a day’s feeding and thus donated the required amount at the award gathering.
Through their ‘Karunya Scheme’, M. Friends has been feeding the hungry for the last 3 years in the city.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
