B'luru rain fury: Guns, records damaged after rainwater gushes into City Armed Reserve control room
Bengaluru: Water logged into the control room of the West Division of City Armed Reserve Forces in Ullala Upanagara, causing damage to the valuables in the division, after heavy rains lashed parts of the city on Wednesday.
The control room was completely inundated following sudden inflow of rainwater, causing damage to hundreds of firearms, documents belonging to the Police security personnel. The havoc came to light in the Morning when the control room staff arrived for duty, upon discovering things disordered the staff swiftly rushed and collected the guns and files, conducted an inspection of the room.
In the meantime, several residents of the city complained of rainwater entering into their homes. At the same time, some also expressed their displeasure with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) stating that despite several complaints, the civic body is not acting against controlling artificial flooding in the city.
Similarly, in Sahakar Nagar, houses were still submerged under water, prompting locals to protest against the civic body by blocking the road.
“Every flood causes colossal damage, and BBMP officials are not responding to our situation. The situation would have been not like this if the BBMP had cleared encroachment on Rajakaluve,” said an agitated resident.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
