Chamarajanagar: Two boys drown in tank
Chamarajanagar, October 11: Two boys who have gone for swimming in a tank drowned in the water at Bela Chalavadi village in Gundlupete taluk in the district on Wednesday.
The deceased have been identified as Chandan (14), son of Shivanna, and Praveen (15), son of Mahesh of the same village. Both of them were studying in 9th and 10th standard respectively in Beguru Government High School. Both of them have left home on Wednesday afternoon saying that they have dance class in the school and later, they were missing.
Today morning, the villagers noticed two bicycles and clothes near the tank and informed the Beguru police. When the fire brigade and divers searched in the tank, they found the bodies. After postmortem, the bodies were handed over to the families. A case was registered at Beguru police station.
Tahsildar C. Bharati, Circle Inspector H.N. Balakrishna, Beguru police station PSI Lohith Kumar, Fire Brigade Officer Cheluvaraju visited the spot. District Minister Puttaranga Shetty also visited the mortuary and consoled the parents.
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Over 350 flights delayed at Delhi airport due to congestion
New Delhi, Apr 12 (PTI): More than 350 flights were delayed at the Delhi airport on Saturday due to traffic congestion.
Social media users shared pictures and videos of waiting passengers at the airport.
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) were disrupted on Friday evening due to adverse weather conditions and as a spillover impact, operations have also been hit on Saturday.
"Flight operations at Delhi Airport are improving; however, a few flights are still impacted due to last night's weather conditions.
"Our on-ground teams and all stakeholders are working together to minimise any inconvenience to passengers," DIAL said in a post on X at 1407 hours.
As per data available on flight tracking website Flightradar24.com, more than 350 flights have been delayed and the average delay for flight departures was over 40 minutes.
"Ongoing air traffic congestion in Delhi is causing flights to be held for takeoff and landing clearance. Due to the consequential impact, a few flights across the network are impacted too," IndiGo said in a post on X at 1332 hours.
Meanwhile, only three runways are operational at the airport now as one runway is closed for maintenance works.
