Engineering student killed after two-wheeler & BMTC bus collide in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Feb 2: A 21-year-old student of a private engineering college was killed after her two-wheeler and a Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus collided here on Friday, police said.
Kusumitha, a second-year engineering student, was on her way to college when she met with the accident in Rajajinagar, they said.
Some passers-by rushed her to a nearby hospital where she was declared "brought dead." Soon after the accident, the BMTC bus driver fled the spot, a senior police officer said.
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Police suspect that the accident happened due to rash and negligent driving by the bus driver. However, they are scanning through the CCTV cameras installed in and around the vicinity of the spot to ascertain the sequence of events.
We have registered a case under sections 279 (Rash driving or riding on a public way) and 304 A (Causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code at Malleshwaram traffic police station and efforts are being made to nab the bus driver who has been absconding since the accident," he said.
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Ruskin Bond hospitalised in Dehradun due to leg problem
Dehradun (PTI): Author Ruskin Bond has been admitted to a hospital in Dehradun due to a leg problem, a close friend of the writer said here on Sunday.
After visiting Bond at the hospital, well-known Dehradun-based publisher Upendra Arora said the elderly author was unable to walk properly, following which he was admitted to a private hospital here on Saturday.
The 91-year-old Bond, a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, lives in the Landour area of Mussoorie.
Arora said Bond is undergoing physiotherapy under medical supervision and is expected to be discharged from the hospital in two to three days.
"There is nothing serious," he said.
Bond has written more than 500 short stories, essays and novels, of which 69 books are for children.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.
