One dead, two injured as two scooters hit parked truck on Nethravathi bridge
Ullal: With two scooters colliding with a truck on the NH 66 Thursday morning, one of the riders has died while a pillion rider and the rider of the second scooter are injured.
The deceased rider has been identified as Mohammad Noufal (26), a resident of Angaragundi. The injured pillion rider is identified as Umar Farooq. Information on the second rider is yet to be confirmed, police sources have said.
Both the riders were travelling from Pumpwell to Thokkottu on the way to the Kallapu Global Market on Thursday morning. Noufal, who owned a vegetable shop at the Baikampady APMC yard and travelled daily to Kallapu in a tempo, arrived in his scooter on the route to collect the vegetable supply.
The scooters crashed in quick succession against the truck that was parked on the Nethravathi bridge as it had broken down.
Mangaluru Traffic Police (South) have registered a case and investigation is on.
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Mizoram class 12 results out, pass percentage at 87.67
Aizawl (PTI): Mizoram recorded a pass percentage of 87.67 in the class 12 board examinations on Wednesday, with boys scoring marginally higher than girls,
Across the Arts, Science, and Commerce streams, boys secured an 87.7 per cent success rate, while girls followed closely at 87.66 per cent, according to the results published by the Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE).
Of the 12,243 students who sat for the examinations held between February and March, 10,734 passed, 1,394 could not, and 115 qualified for compartmental examinations.
Academic performance was strongest in the Commerce stream, which saw a 90.51 per cent success rate among 759 candidates.
The Science stream followed with 89.24 per cent pass rate out of 2,770 students who appeared for the exam, while the Arts stream, with 87,14 students, recorded a pass percentage of 86.93.
In terms of institutional performance, the results revealed that deficit schools, which receive regular government grants, maintained their status as top performers with an average 93.80 per cent pass rate across all streams, followed by private schools at 91.55 per cent, while state-run schools recorded a success rate 83.13 per cent.
