KSRTC starts mini bus service between Madikeri and Sullia
Mangaluru, August 23: The Mangaluru KSRTC has started mini bus service between Madikeri and Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district in alternative route from today.
Due to landslides on national highway 275 between Madikeri and Sampaje, the mini buses would ply via Panattur-Karike and Bhagamandala. The KSRTC mini bus service would be available from Puttur depot, corporation sources said.
This mini bus service would help hundreds of employees and students between these two towns. The mini buses would also run into Kerala for 12 km. Three buses started plying between these places from Thursday and another two buses would start from Friday. Every day, 14 single trips would be done from five mini buses, sources said.
Bus time table
Madikeri to Sullia: 7.15 am, 8 am, 9 am, 11.15 am, 12 noon, 4 pm, 4.30 pm
Sullia to Madikeri: 7 am, 7.45 am, 11.45 am, 12.15 pm, 1.15 pm, 3.30 pm, 4.30 pm
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CBI Director Praveen Sood gets one year's extension
New Delhi, May 7 (PTI): The Centre on Wednesday extended the tenure of CBI Director Praveen Sood by one year.
Sood took over as the CBI director on May 25, 2023 for a two-year term.
The decision to extend his tenure was taken in a meeting of the selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday, officials said.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), based on the recommendations of the selection committee, approved Sood's extension for a period of one year beyond May 24.
Sood is a 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Karnataka cadre. He was working as Karnataka's director general of police (DGP) when he was named as the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Born in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district in 1964, Sood joined the IPS at the age of 22 years after completing his civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
He also holds a post-graduation degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru and the Maxwell School of Governance, Syracuse University in New York.
Sood, known for his hands-on approach, had supervised investigation of high profile cases involving high net-worth individuals and matters having inter-state and international ramifications.
The tech-savvy officer had worked for the strengthening of the CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems) and the ICJS (Interoperable Criminal Justice System) in Karnataka along with the judiciary.
