Former Karkala MLA Gopal Bhandary passes away while traveling on bus
Mangaluru: Congress leader and former MLA of Karkala constituency Gopal Bhandary passed away due to a heart attack on Thursday when he was reportedly travelling on bus from Bengaluru towards Mangaluru.
The 66 year old leader boarded the bus from Bengaluru at 2.pm on Thursday. However, when the bus reached Mangaluru the conductor of the bus suspected something to be wrong with Bhandary as he did not wake up even after reaching the destination.
The conductor of the bus informed the police about Bhandary not responding, the police reached the spot and confirmed that Bhandary was no more.
His body was then shifted to Wenlock Hospital.
Bhandary won the assembly election for the first time in 1999 but lost the election in 2004 to again win his constituency back in 2008. He however lost the previous two elections in 2013 and 2018.
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Bengaluru-bound Air India flight makes emergency landing in TN's Tiruchirappally
Tiruchirappalli (PTI): A Bengaluru bound Air India Express flight with about 137 passengers made an "emergency landing," here following a technical glitch, sources at the airport said.
The Thiruvananthapuram-Bengaluru service suffered the glitch mid-air, following which it made the safe landing here, the sources added.
All the passengers disembarked the flight and the technical crew was attending to the fault.
An Air India Express spokesperson said the flight "was diverted to Tiruchirappalli due to a technical issue."
"A replacement aircraft is being organised to operate the flight to Bengaluru. We are providing all administrative arrangements and regret the inconvenience caused to the travel schedule (of passengers)," the spokesperson added.
