Forest Dept to have new site to book tickets for trekking in Karnataka: Minister Khandre
Bengaluru: Forest, Ecology and Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre has declared that, in a move to control the number of trekkers in sensitive routes in Karnataka, the Forest Department will launch on Thursday a single website for the purchase of trekking tickets.
The minister, who participated in a walkathon organized by the Forest Department on Wednesday from Cubbon Park to Lalbagh as a part of the 70th Wildlife Week, stated that the new website will be launched at his office situated at the Vikasa Soudha on Thursday afternoon. Information on all the trekking routes and the tickets for the routes will be made available on the site, for the convenience of the people, he added.
Khandre also informed the people on occasion that trekking on the Kumara Parvatha, one of the popular trekking sites in Dakshina Kannada, will now be permitted, starting Thursday, October 3.
The Forest Department had closed the route in January as hundreds of people had booked tickets for trekking up Kumara Parvatha on January 6-7 this year.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
