Heavy rain claim two live in Udupi District
Udupi: Heavy rain that has gripped Coastal Karnataka and parts of Kerala since Thursday reportedly claimed two lives in Udupi District in two different incidents reported on Thursday.
In the first incident reported from Karkala Gram Panchayath limits, a 42-year old woman who had been to field to collect grass for the cattle fell into a pond and died of drowning. The woman, identified as Sulochana went into the field to collect grass in the afternoon. When she did not return till evening, her family started looking for Sulochana. However, her dead body was found in a pond in the evening.
In another incident, reported from Kukkehalli an auto-driver who was staying at his friend’s house due to heavy rain, died after he sustianed injuries as a tree fell and hit his head at Dinakar's house due to heavy rain on Thursday night.
An auto rickshaw driver Ravindra Kullal, who was on his way to his home on Thursday night decided to stay at his friend Dinakar Shetty’s house due to heavy rain as it was nearly impossible to ride his auto home. Later in the night a tree fell down due to heavy rain, Ravindra who was sleeping in the sit-out of the house sustained severe injuries and breathed his last.
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BJP using women's quota bill as front to pass Delimitation Bill that will break India: Mamata
Cooch Behar (WB) (PTI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was using the proposed amendment to the women's quota law in Parliament as a front for the Delimitation Bill that would "break the country into pieces".
The TMC will fight this Central government's move at every step, she asserted at her party's poll rally here.
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, along with the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, to implement the proposed amended women's quota law, in the Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
According to the Constitution amendment bill, Lok Sabha seats will be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
Seats will also be increased in state and Union territory assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.
Opposing the Centre's move, Banerjee alleged that "the BJP brought the Delimitation Bill while keeping the women's reservation bill at the front".
"The BJP is trying to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to nearly 850 through the Delimitation Bill. It will break the country into pieces," the TMC supremo said.
She also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not speaking the truth about the development of north Bengal at a BJP rally last week.
"The prime minister said nothing was done for the development of north Bengal. But we spent Rs 1.72 lakh crore on the development of the region," Banerjee said and asked Modi to cross-check data before making such remarks.
