Women’s T20 Challenge: Smriti Mandhana’s 90 powers Trailblazers to 2-run win over Supernovas
Jaipur: Trailblazers defeated Harmanpreet Kaur-led Supernovas on last ball of the first match of Women's T20 Challenge at Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Monday.
Smriti Mandhana played a brilliant innings of 90 runs from 67 balls.
In the last over, the equation came down to 19 off 6 balls as the senior-most bowler in Trailblazers' ranks took the ball. Harmanpreet smashed four boundaries off the first five balls to bring it down to 3 runs from the last ball. But in the end, experience won, as Jhulan got Harmanpreet to miss as Suzie Bates was run out trying to sneak through a run.
Brief Score :
TRL: 140/5 (20.0)
SPN: 138/6 (20.0)
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BMTC collects over Rs 19 lakh as fine from those travelling without tickets, occupying ladies seat
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.
The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.
According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.
During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.
"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.
