Manipal: Tonse Mohandas Pai passes away at 89
Manipal: One of the most prominent members of Manipal’s Pai family, Tonse Mohandas Pai passed away on Sunday evening at a hospital in Manipal. He was 89.
He was recently admitted to a hospital in Manipal due to ill health where he breathed his last on Sunday evening.
Tonse Mohandas Pai was associated with several organisations including Dr. TMA Pai Foundation, MGM College’s Trustee, ICDS Limited, Manipal Media Network Limited, and others.
Tonse Mohandas Pai was born on June 20, 1933, and was the eldest son of Dr. TMA Pai. He is an alumnus of MGM College, Udupi having studied in the very first intermediate batch during 1949-51 when the college started on the premises of the Mahatma Gandhi School run by the Udupi Municipal Council. After Intermediate he attended a course in law in Kolhapur (1951-53) securing the First Rank from Poona University and then he decided to become an entrepreneur in Manipal.
He joined the family business in 1953 as the General Manager of Canara Land Investments (which was running the Tile Factory in Manipal) and took additional responsibilities at Manipal Power Press as Managing Partner where he was later joined by Satish Pai in the year 1957.
He has largely been responsible for the safekeeping of Dr. T.M.A. Pai’s belongings in Smrithi Bhavan in Manipal the museum devoted to the memory of Dr. T.M.A. Pai. An upright person in matters of public life he is highly respected for his straightforwardness, and independent decisions. A great lover and connoisseur of art, he is also deeply interested in Indian heritage and is responsible with Vijaynath Shenoy in launching the Hasthashilpa Heritage Village in Manipal a multi-dimensional cultural project which aims at restoration and conservation of the nation’s cultural wealth expressed in the form of traditional buildings and objects of art, craft and other artifacts of aesthetic interest, some dating several hundred years ago.
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Wedding chaos in UP: Man mistaken for thief tied to pole, beaten; video goes viral
Deoria: A wedding celebration turned into a shocking incident of violence when a man was brutally assaulted in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district, after being mistaken for a thief. The incident, which occurred during a wedding procession from Gorakhpur to Deoria, was caught on camera and has since gone viral on social media.
According to a report by NDTV published on Saturday, the events took place in Tarkulwa village of Deoria, where the wedding guests had arrived at a local marriage hall. One of the participants, who was drunk, had wandered away from the wedding group and knocked on the door of a house around midnight. Mistaking him for a thief due to a recent burglary in the area, residents raised an alarm, shouting "thief, thief."
A mob gathered quickly and tied the man to an electric pole, and subjected him to a violent beating with kicks and punches, ignoring his protests, added the report. Several bystanders recorded the assault and later shared the videos online, sparking outrage.
Police intervened after being alerted, rescued the injured man and took him to a local police station for medical treatment. The victim’s family arrived the next morning to take him home.
