Forest Dept to have new site to book tickets for trekking in Karnataka: Minister Khandre
Bengaluru: Forest, Ecology and Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre has declared that, in a move to control the number of trekkers in sensitive routes in Karnataka, the Forest Department will launch on Thursday a single website for the purchase of trekking tickets.
The minister, who participated in a walkathon organized by the Forest Department on Wednesday from Cubbon Park to Lalbagh as a part of the 70th Wildlife Week, stated that the new website will be launched at his office situated at the Vikasa Soudha on Thursday afternoon. Information on all the trekking routes and the tickets for the routes will be made available on the site, for the convenience of the people, he added.
Khandre also informed the people on occasion that trekking on the Kumara Parvatha, one of the popular trekking sites in Dakshina Kannada, will now be permitted, starting Thursday, October 3.
The Forest Department had closed the route in January as hundreds of people had booked tickets for trekking up Kumara Parvatha on January 6-7 this year.
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UP woman found hanging at in-laws' home; family alleges dowry murder
Maharajganj (UP) (PTI): A 29-year-old married woman was found hanging at her in-laws' home here, with her in-laws claiming it was suicide while her mother alleging murder over dowry, police said on Sunday.
According to police, Anukriti (29) had married Manoj Gond six years ago and lived with her in-laws in Mahadeva village.
Her in-laws claimed that she died by suicide after allegedly hanging herself inside a room of the house on Saturday evening, police said.
After receiving information about the incident, a police team reached the spot and sent the body for a post-mortem.
Paniyara police station in-charge Sanjay Kumar Singh said that based on a complaint filed by the woman’s mother, a case was registered on Sunday against her husband Manoj Gond, mother-in-law Punam, father-in-law Sumer Gond, and brother-in-law Munna Gond.
The complainant alleged that Anukriti was being harassed for dowry by in-laws and was murdered over dowry-related demands, Singh said.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
