Kannada Sahitya Sammelan: Procession kicked off
Dharwad, Jan 4: The procession of the 84th Kannada Sahitya Sammelan to be held for three days here was kicked off on Thursday morning.
Revenue and District Minister RV Deshpande hoisted the national flag, Kannada Sahitya Parishat president Dr Manu Baligar hoisted Parishat flag and district Kannada Sahitya Parishat president Dr Lingaraj Angadi unfurled Kannada flag to start the Sammelan officially.
Later, the busts of KCD premises founder Sir Siddappa Kambali, Aratala Rudre Gowda and Rodda Srinivas Raya were garlanded. Sammelan president and noted playwright Dr Chandrasekhar Kambala, District Minister RV Deshpande, Municipal Administration Minister CS Shivalli, Deputy Commissioner Deepa Cholan, Parishat state president Dr Manu Baligar, ZP president Chaitra Shirura, MLA Srinivas Mane and Amrutha Desai garlanded the portrait of Goddess Bhuvaneshwari.
Later, Sammelan president Dr Chandrasekhar Kambara and his wife and Parishat state president Dr Manu Baligar were taken out on a procession in a decorated horse cart. DC Deepa Cholan, ADC Ibrahim Mygura, city corporation Commissioner Shakeel Ahmed and others were present.
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Hit by car, delivery agent dies after falling from flyover in Delhi
New Delhi (PTI): A food delivery agent died after falling from the Dabri flyover in southwest Delhi when his scooter was allegedly hit by a car on Thursday morning, police said.
The car driver fled from the spot, police said.
A PCR call was received at 7:35 am informing that a person had fallen from the Dabri flyover on Pankha road and required immediate medical assistance, they said.
A police team rushed to the spot and found a damaged scooter and a car on the flyover. The scooter rider sustained serious injuries and was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital in an ambulance, where doctors declared him dead, they added.
According to police, the victim was identified as Rajkumar, a resident of Jharkhand's Godda district. He was working as a delivery executive with a private food delivery service in Delhi.
The car involved in the accident bears a Delhi registration number and is registered in the name of a Dabri resident, police said.
"The body has been preserved in a mortuary and efforts are underway to apprehend the absconding driver," a senior police officer said.
A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and an investigation is underway to ascertain the exact sequence of events leading to the accident, police said.
