Krishnapur: Class 2 boy donates his savings for relief fund
Mangaluru: A class-2 boy from Mangaluru has extended helping hand to victims of Kerala and Kodagu floods in a unique way.
Muhammad Hisham, a second class student of the Surathkal Katipalla Narayana Guru English medium primary school is the generous boy who came forward for help.
Krishnapur resident BK Hidayat, Hisham’s father, had brought a plastic canister about a few months ago and guided him about saving money. Hisham was saving money in the box, and it was about to fill.
Meanwhile, Hisham, who had watched the recent landslide and floods in Kerala and Kodagu in TV, had seen the distress of the victims. When he saw various organisations and NGOs coming forward for their rescue, he too gave his money canister to his father to donate the money for flood victims. Then his father Hidayat, along with his son, came to Mangaluru and gave the box to the News Department Officer BA Khader Shah. The sum has been sent to the Chief Minister's Disaster Relief Fund.
This act of generosity is getting appreciated in the public.
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Two women assaulted for 'saying excuse me instead of speaking in Marathi'
Thane, Apr 8 (PTI): Two women, one of them carrying a baby in her arms, were on Tuesday beaten up in Dombivli in the district for allegedly saying "excuse me" instead of speaking in Marathi.
As a video of the incident went viral, police said they were conducting preliminary probe.
The incident took place in the morning when the women, who were on a two-wheeler, were entering the premises of the housing society where they lived.
When the woman who was riding the scooter said "excuse me" to a young man who was obstructing the entrance, he allegedly took offence, demanding that she speak in Marathi, she claimed.
The man, who lives on the ground floor of the same building, allegedly twisted the arm of the pillion rider, they said in a complaint filed at Vishnunagar police station.
Four or five women and two young men from his family gathered and allegedly beat up the two women. Eyewitnesses said they showed no concern for the nine-month-old baby.
'Excuse me' is a common courtesy and the accused's reaction was unwarranted, the complainant said.
Senior inspector Sanjay Pawar of Vishnu Nagar police station told PTI that investigation was underway.
No First Information Report has been registered yet, he said, adding that police were probing if the incident arose from a past dispute.
Workers of the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) had recently launched an agitation demanding that staff at banks in Maharashtra should speak to customers in Marathi.
The United Forum of Bank Unions wrote to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, stating that people claiming to be MNS activists have been visiting bank branches and intimidating staff. Thackeray later asked his workers to cease the agitation.
Dombivali | इंग्रजीत "ExcuseMe" म्हणणाऱ्या तरुणींना मारहाण, तिघांविरोधात गुन्हा#Dombivali #Crime #MarathiNews pic.twitter.com/ChDQzZqMPY
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