Male leopard fell into well rescued at Kulunge
Kundapura, September 9: A male leopard fell accidentally into a well while hunting a dog at Kallumakki of Kulunge village in the taluk on Sunday morning was rescued by the Forest department.
On Sunday late night, the leopard came for hunting a dog and while carrying the dog from the courtyard of the house of Kallumakki Raghuram Kulal, the leopard fell into the open well. However, the dog escaped from falling into the well. But it sustained leopard bites.
Listening to the sound, Raghuram came out of the house and noticed the leopard drowning in the well. Suddenly, Raghuram put banana trunks to help the leopard from drowning in the water. Later, he informed the Shankaranarayana forest department which rushed to the spot with net and a cage. The entire well was covered with the net and later, the cage was released into the well. The leopard which was swimming with the help of banana trunks, entered into the cage and trapped.
The leopard catching operation which started at 1.30 am, completed at 5 am. The leopard aged between three-four years was taken along with the cage and released in the Reserve Forest.
Shankarnarayan Ranger A.A Gopal, Assistant Ranger Harish K, Forest guards Gururaj Nayak, Srikanth, Ravi Goliyangadi, Santosh, Jogi, forest watchers Shivu, Chandru, Laxman, and Samruddhi Youth Association members participated in the operation. Gram panchayat President Ravi Kulal cooperated with the forest staff.
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Patna-bound IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Lucknow due to bad weather
Lucknow (PTI): Adverse weather forced an IndiGo Kolkata-Patna flight to make an emergency landing at Lucknow airport on Friday, airport sources said.
According to airport officials, weather conditions in Patna deteriorated suddenly on Friday afternoon, affecting flight operations.
IndiGo flight 6E 6917 from Kolkata, which was scheduled to land in Patna at 3.50 pm, could not land due to bad weather and kept circling in the air after failing to get clearance from air traffic control, they said.
The flight was later diverted to Lucknow and landed safely at the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport at around 5.15 pm. There were 180 passengers and six crew members on board, officials said.
The aircraft was later allowed to depart for Patna after weather conditions improved.
