Udupi: Water shortage postpones PU classes
Udupi: As the City is suffering acute water shortage, the Pre-University classes which were scheduled to begin from today, have been postponed temporarily.
"College reopening dates have been changed from 20th May 2019 to 1st June 2019 due to acute water shortage in the college," Udupi Poornaprgnya PU college has sent this message to its students through an application.
Responding on this, college principal Sandeep said, "It is difficult to start the college with a shortage of water. There are about one thousand students in our college, including in the first and second PUC. Today we took the attendance and sent children home. The classrooms are scheduled to be held up to afternoon. Full classes will be started if we get rains," he told the newspaper.
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Bomb threat at Mangaluru RTO turns out to be hoax
Mangaluru (PTI): A search operation was carried out at the Regional Transport Office here on Monday after the office received a bomb threat email, which later turned out to be a hoax, police said.
The email was received on Sunday night but came to the notice of the authorities only on Monday afternoon, following which immediate precautionary measures were taken, they said.
According to police, the RTO office staff were evacuated as a safety measure, and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad was pressed into service to conduct a meticulous search of the building.
Police personnel and the dog squad were also deployed at the spot.
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“The email claimed that bombs were kept in the RTO office. The Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad checked the premises thoroughly and no suspicious object was found. It was a hoax email,” a senior police officer said.
Officials said the authorities are treating the incident seriously and have launched an investigation to trace the source of the email.
“A case has been registered at the South police station in this regard and further investigation is underway,” he added.
