PM Modi visits Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur
Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Karnataka, arrived at the state’s capital Bengaluru on Thursday afternoon on a special Indian Air Force flight.
Chief Minister Yediyurappa along with Union Ministers Sadananda Gowda, Prahlad Joshi, State Minister R Ashok, Director General of Karnataka Police Neelamani Raju, Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao and others received the Prime Minister at Yelahanka Airbase.
Modi left for Tumkur from the Airbase on helicopter accompanied by CM Yediyurappa.
After reaching Tumkur, the Prime Minister amidst heavy security on the road reached Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur where he will unveil a plaque to mark the laying of foundation stone for a museum in honour of famous Lingayat scholar and seer Shivkumara Swami, who passed away in January 2019, aged 111 years.
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6 women dead, 8 persons injured as bus rams into van in Gujarat's Sabarkantha
Sabarkantha (Gujarat) (PTI): Six women were killed and eight other persons injured after a private bus crashed into a van on a highway in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district on Wednesday, police said.
The van was ferrying women from Modasa in Aravalli district when a speeding bus hit it from behind on National Highway 48 connecting Shamlaji to Himmatnagar in the district, Deputy Superintendent of Police A K Patel said.
According to police, the women were part of a catering team for social events. They were travelling from Modasa in the neighbouring Aravalli district to Hunj village in Himmatnagar to attend a function when they met with the accident.
Six women passengers of the van were killed, Patel said.
Seven other women and the van driver suffered injuries, according to police.
The injured persons were rushed to the Himmatnagar civil hospital. The condition of two of them was critical, the hospital's medical officer, Dr Dhrupad Chauhan, said.
The bodies were sent to a government hospital for a postmortem.
VIDEO | Gujarat: Six persons were killed and four others injured after a private bus rammed into a van on a highway in Sabarkantha district on Wednesday, police said.
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