Bengaluru cops arrest 2 men accused of stealing valuables from bus passengers' bags
Bengaluru: The Kodigehalli police officers have arrested two men who were traveling in a bus on the Andhra Pradesh-Bengaluru route and were found to be stealing valuables, including laptops and mobile phones, from the bags of other passengers.
The arrested men have been identified as natives of Andhra Pradesh. The men were found to have been targeting passengers in buses that traveled at night on the route, traveling in the buses in the guise of passengers. They are learned to have stolen the passengers' things when they were sleeping, before escaping. The police have confiscated 39 laptops from them.
A case has been registered at the Kodigehalli Police Station, said the police officials, adding that the arrested men are being questioned on the matter.
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Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan passes away
New Delhi (PTI): Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan passed away in Bengaluru on Friday, officials said.
The 84-year-old had been unwell for quite sometime.
"He left for heavenly abode this morning at his residence in Bengaluru. His body will be kept at Raman Research Institute (RRI) for paying last respects on April 27," the officials said.
Kasturirangan, who was chairman of the drafting committee of the new National Education Policy (NEP), had also served as chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and as chairman of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission.
He had also served as a member of the Rajya Sabha (2003–09) and as member of then Planning Commission of India.
Kasturirangan was also the Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore from April 2004 to 2009.
He had steered the Indian Space programme gloriously for over nine years as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), of Space Commission and Secretary to the Government of India.
As an astrophysicist, Kasturirangan focused on research in high energy X-ray and gamma ray astronomy as well as optical astronomy. He had made extensive and significant contributions to studies of cosmic X-ray sources, celestial gamma-ray and effect of cosmic X-rays in the lower atmosphere.
