India-SA women’s ODI series at Chinnaswamy Stadium: BMTC provides special bus service to spectators
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has announced that special bus services will be provided to cricket fans attending the one-day series between India Women and South Africa Women at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium this month.
The ODI series will be held at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in the city on June 13, 16, 19, and 23.
In a recent press release, the BMTC has stated that the buses will be provided for the benefit of spectators living in different parts of Bengaluru and continue till the end of the series, taking traffic requirements into consideration.
The BMTC added that the services will be provided from Chinnaswamy Stadium to Kadugodi Bus Stand on HAL Road, Route No SBS-1K; Sarjapura on Route G-2; Electronics City on Hosur Road, Route No G-3; Bannerghatta National Park on Route No G-4; Janapriya Township on Magadi Road, Route No G-7; RK Hegde Nagar in Nagavara on Tannery Road, Route No G-10; Hoskote on Route No 317 G and Banashankari on Route No 13.
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Dalit outfits call state-wide hartal over dental student’s death
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Various Dalit organisations on Monday announced a state-wide hartal seeking justice in the death of Kannur Dental College student Nithin Raj.
The hartal will be observed on Tuesday from 6 am to 6 pm.
As many as 52 Dalit organisations, including Justice for Nithin Raj Action Council, have announced the strike.
Organisations requesting cooperation for the strike said that no vehicles will be forcibly stopped and that all essential services are exempted.
Raj, a first-year BDS student at a private dental college in Anjarakkandy in Kannur district, was found critically injured after falling from a building on April 10 and later succumbed to his injuries.
Police have registered a case against two faculty members on charges of abetment of suicide and under provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, following allegations by the student’s family that he was subjected to caste- and complexion-based harassment.
Kerala Pinnokka Samudaya Munnani (KPSM), one of the organisations supporting the hartal, alleged in a statement that police had shown apathy in the investigation and were attempting to protect the accused in the case.
KPSM state president K V Padmanabhan and general secretary S Anwar alleged that the probe into Raj’s death was being deliberately misdirected and delayed.
While the family has firmly alleged that caste discrimination and mental harassment by faculty members led to the student’s death, police were attempting to divert the investigation towards loan app borrowings, they claimed.
The organisation alleged that this was a planned move to shield the real accused.
KPSM further alleged that by deliberately delaying the arrest of the accused teachers, police enabled them to secure anticipatory bail.
They said there was no confidence in the present police investigation and demanded that the case be handed over to an independent agency at the earliest.
