Bengaluru metro to extend services on IPL match days
Bengaluru (PTI): In view of the IPL T-20 cricket matches to be held here, Bengaluru Metro on Tuesday announced that it will extend the timing of departure of its last trains from all four terminal stations to 12:30 am on match days.
The matches are scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on 2nd, 10th, 18th and 24th of this month and 3rd, 13th and 17th of May.
"BMRCL (Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited) is extending its train services up to 12.30 am departing from all its four terminal metro stations viz Whitefield (Kadugodi), Challaghatta, Silk Institute and Madavara," a statement said.
"The last train from Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Station Majestic towards all four directions will leave at 1.15 am," the statement added.
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Bantwal police arrest two men for illegal sale of narcotics, seize two vehicles, 810 gm ganja
Mangaluru: Bantwal Rural Police have arrested two men who were allegedly attempting to sell narcotics illegally near the National Highway 75 stretch in Hanumanagar of Thumbay in Bantwal taluk on Saturday evening.
The police team, led by Bantwal Rural Sub-inspector Manjunath T, held the operation on being informed that the arrested men, identified as Sameer (31) of Thumbay and Muhammad Asif (35) of Goodinabali, were trying to sell narcotics illegally at the said place. When they reached the place, they are learned to have found two men standing in a suspicious manner beside a car and an auto rickshaw parked on an empty plot near the highway. The policemen caught and questioned the men, who confessed that they had been trying to sell ganja.
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The team, on checking the car, reportedly found 450 gram of the narcotic along with 360 gram in the auto rickshaw. The narcotic and the two vehicles have been seized by the police.
A case has been registered against Sameer and Asif at the Bantwal Rural Police Station, the Department has said in a press statement.
