Woman missing; Suspected to be swept away in river
Byndoor, June 26: A woman who had been to a shop on Sunday is missing and it is suspected that she might have swept away in the river beside her house. But even after three days, her body is not yet traced despite the search operation.
The missing woman is identified as Parvati (35) of Uddabettu Dasodi in Teggarse village in the taluk. She had gone to the shop on Sunday to bring some ration. When she did not turn up even after 10 am, her family members started searching her. While searching, her umbrella was found in a bush below 100 mts from a foot-bridge constructed across Sumanavati river near her house. Since the taluk has been receiving heavy rains for the last couple of days, it is suspected that she might have fallen accidentally from the footbridge and swept away in the flood.
Byndoor police who registered a case said that locals and fire brigade have been searching for the body since Sunday. But it was not found. As the rivers are flowing in full force, the body might have washed away into the sea. Her husband Buddivanta is working as a mason.
Rain-related losses
Due to heavy rains that has been lashing the district for the last few days, some houses were damaged, traffic movement was disrupted due to clogging of water in the incomplete highway work sites.
Artificial flooding was created at Basrur Murukai, Koteshwara underpass and other places in Kundapura taluk, causing inconvenience to vehicular movement. A wall of the house belonging to Narayana Achari in Nujadi village collapsed due to heavy rains and the loss was estimated at Rs 25,000. As a coconut tree fell on the house of Radhu Poojarthi of Udyavara village, the house was damaged causing a loss of Rs 50,000. The compound of the house belonging to Raghava of 80 Badagabettu village was collapsed due to heavy rains on Monday night incurring a loss of Rs 30,000. In the same way, Girija of Beejadi village in Kundapur taluk incurred a loss of Rs 75,000 due to gusty wind and heavy rains, Susheela has incurred a loss of Rs 35,000 and Babu Kharvi of Hosadu village incurred a loss of Rs 35,000 as their houses were damaged.
In Udupi taluk, Nemu Poojarthi of Kadekar village incurred a loss of Rs 60,000, Shivaram Poojary Rs 20,000, Narayana Poojary Rs 22,000, Sunil KN Rs 20,000, Kuthpadi Achyuta Anchan Rs 15,000, Neeladhara Suvarna Rs 20,000, Vittal Kotian Rs 6000, Sadashiva Bhandary Rs 10,000, Sadhu Karkera Rs 15000, Koraga Salian Rs 15,000 losses were estimated.
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IndiGo crisis enters day 7; 127 flights cancelled from Bengaluru
Mumbai (PTI): Flight disruptions at IndiGo entered the seventh day as the crisis-hit carrier cancelled 127 flights from Bengaluru Airport on Monday, a source said.
In another development, aviation safety regulator DGCA in an order on Sunday late evening extended the time by Monday 6 pm for IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and Chief Operating Officer and Accountable Manager Isidro Porqueras to submit reply to its show cause notice over the ongoing disruptions in the airline’s operations.
In the notices issued to Elbers and Porqueras on Saturday, the regulator said the large-scale operational failures pointed to significant lapses in planning, oversight, and resource management, and asked them to submit their replies within 24 hours.
IndiGo has cancelled 127 flights, including 65 arrivals and 62 departures from Bengaluru Airport, the source said.
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The Gurugram-based airline, partially-owned by Rahul Bhatia, has been facing heat from both the government and the passengers for cancelling hundreds of flights since December 2, citing regulatory changes in the pilots' new flight duty and regulations norms, which resulted in lakhs of passengers getting stuck at airports pan-India.
For the first three days the airline failed to acknowledge the huge number of cancellations and it was only Friday when it cancelled 1,600 flights (Friday), a record in Indian aviation history that CEO Elbers released a video apologising for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the message, he admitted that the airline was cancelling a large number of flights, but did not mention that it would cancel 1,600 flights on that particular day.
The new norms, applicable for all domestic carriers, have come into force in two phases - July 1 and November 1 this year.
IndiGo has already temporarily secured major relaxations in the second phase norms till February 10.
The latest FDTL norms, which entail increased weekly rest periods to 48 hours, extended night hours, and limiting the number of night landings to only two, as against six earlier, were initially opposed by domestic airlines, including IndiGo and Tata Group-owned Air India.
But they were subsequently rolled out by the DGCA following the Delhi High Court's directives, albeit with a delay of over one year, in a phased manner, and with certain variations for airlines like IndiGo and Air India.
The norms were originally to be put in place from March 2024, but airlines, including IndiGo, sought a step-by-step implementation, citing additional crew requirements.
