Maripalla: Cash worth lakhs of rupees looted from gas agency
Bantwala, Jan 11: The robbers who barged into a gas agency looted lakhs of rupees at Maripalla on Friday.
The robbers barged into the Chouta Indane Gas Agency, owned by Pushparaj Chouta, looted around Rs 2 lakh from the cash counter.
The agency owner lodged a complaint with the Bantwala rural police. Sniffer dogs, fingerprint experts, Bantwala circle inspector TD Nagaraj, Bantwala PSI Prasanna, constables Suresh, Janardhan, Verghese and others visited the place.
A case was registered and the investigation is under process.
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Deepavali inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list
New Delhi (PTI:) India's Deepavali -- the festival of light -- was on Wednesday inscribed on the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The decision was taken during a key meeting of UNESCO being hosted at the Red Fort in Delhi.
This is the first time that India is hosting a session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).
The 20th session of the panel is underway from December 8 to 13 at the Red Fort.
Chants of 'Vande Mataram' and 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' rent the air as UNESCO announced that the Deepavali festival has been added to the coveted list.
India currently has 15 elements inscribed on the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and these include the Kumbh Mela, Durga Puja of Kolkata, Garba dance of Gujarat, yoga, the tradition of Vedic chanting and Ramlila - the traditional performance of the epic 'Ramayana'.
