Union Home Minister inaugurates golden jubilee celebrations of CAMPCO in Puttur
Puttur: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday inaugurated the golden jubilee celebrations of the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Limited (Campco) here the Vivekanada English Medium School premises in Puttur.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, State Home Minister Araga Jnanendra, V Sunil Kumar, S Angara, ST Somashekar, Kota Srinivas Poojary, former CM BS Yediyurappa, Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, and others were present during the event.
Senior RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat was also among the attendees at the inaugural ceremony.
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Two killed as college tour bus crashes into parked tanker, lorry near Maravanthe
Kundapur: Two persons died and several students were injured after a college tour bus rammed into a tanker and a goods lorry parked by the roadside near Maravanthe Beach in Trasi on Wednesday afternoon.
The bus was carrying final-year B.Com students of Rambhapuri College from Shivamogga district. According to sources, the group had left for the tour two days ago.
There were around 50 persons in the bus, including 24 male students and 23 female students.
The students had visited Murdeshwar and were travelling towards Udupi on Wednesday when the accident occurred.
Police said the bus driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle, following which the bus first hit a parked gas tanker and then crashed into a goods lorry stationed ahead.
The front portion of the bus was badly mangled in the impact. Preliminary information said the bus cleaner and a cooking assistant travelling with the group died in the accident. Several injured students were shifted to different hospitals in Kundapur for treatment.
