Unable to manage work pressure, 52-year-old bank manager commits suicide in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: A 52-year-old Canara Bank manager committed suicide by hanging herself in her newly purchased apartment in the city on Wednesday.
Padmavathi, a native of Shaktinagar in Mangaluru, was manager of the Bejai branch of Canara Bank.
Sources said that she had recently purchased an apartment in Sharbatkatte in Mangaluru, and the house-warming ceremony was conducted on Monday.
She committed suicide in her new house on Wednesday evening, the sources added.
A case has been registered by the Kadri Police, and investigation is going on.
The police complaint cited extreme pressure of her office seniors as the reason for the desperate move by Padmavathi.
The police sources, however, said that the branch manager committed suicide unable to handle her work pressure.
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Watch: Iranian drone strikes building in Bahrain’s Manama, Al Jazeera verifies video
Manama: A video circulating on social media showing a drone striking a building in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, has been verified by Al Jazeera, confirming its authenticity.
Earlier, the news network, citing Bahrain’s Interior Ministry, had reported that several residential buildings were targeted in the incident.
The verified footage shows an Iranian drone hitting a tower in Manama.
A loud explosion is heard at the moment of impact, followed by a large fire and thick plumes of smoke billowing from the building.
🚨 #BREAKING | Iranian Shahed kamikaze drone struck a building near the US Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain!
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Retaliation for US-Israel strikes on Iran. Footage shows the direct hit in Manama.
Situation escalating fast in the Gulf...#Iran #Bahrain #USNavy #MiddleEast pic.twitter.com/VvlrRnE8R3
