Three men killed in separate bull-related incidents during festival events in Haveri
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Haveri: Three men lost their lives in separate incidents involving bulls during bull-taming contests and procession events held across Haveri district on Wednesday, coinciding with the Deepavali ‘Hatti Habba’ festivities.
The deceased were identified as Chandrashekhar Kodihalli (70), a retired HESCOM employee from Daneshwarinagar, Ghanisab Bankapur (75) from Devihosur village, and Bharath Hingameri (24) from Tilavalli village in Hanagal taluk, according to a report in Deccan Herald.
In the first incident, Chandrashekhar was walking along Old PB Road in Haveri town when a bull from the nearby ‘Kobbari Hori Habba’ bull-taming event near Veerabhadreshwar Temple broke loose and gored him fatally. He was rushed to Haveri District Hospital, where he was declared dead. The case falls under the Haveri Town Police Station limits.
In Devihosur village, within Haveri Rural Police Station limits, Ghanisab Bankapur was sitting on a platform near a house when a bull from a procession reportedly panicked and attacked him, piercing his neck and chest with its horns. He was taken to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries on the way.
In another incident, a bull-taming contest in Tilavalli village under Adur Police Station limits turned tragic when Bharath Hingameri, a spectator, was gored in the chest. The impact caused him to fall and sustain head injuries. He was taken to the district hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
Superintendent of Police Yashodha Vantagodi confirmed that while two deaths occurred during bull-taming events, one was linked to a bull procession. She further said the Tilavalli event was held without official permission, and police have launched an investigation into the matter.
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Ex-bureaucrat Raj Kumar Goyal sworn in as CIC; eight new information commissioners take oath
New Delhi (PTI): After a gap of nine years, transparency watchdog Central Information Commission attained its full strength with the appointment of former IAS officer Raj Kumar Goyal and eight other information commissioners, who took the oath of office on Monday.
A three-member panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week recommended their names for the appointment.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Goyal as the chief information commissioner (CIC) at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, her office said in a communique.
The event was attended by Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, among others.
Goyal is a 1990-batch (retired) IAS officer of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. He superannuated as secretary, Department of Justice under the Ministry of Law and Justice, on August 31.
He has also served as secretary (border management) in the Home Ministry and held key posts both at the Centre and in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The post of CIC fell vacant after Heeralal Samariya completed his term on September 13.
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The Commission is headed by a CIC and can have a maximum of 10 information commissioners. With the new appointments, the Commission attained its full strength after a gap of over nine years, according to transparency activists.
In the presence of two incumbent Information Commissioners, Anandi Ramalingam and Vinod Kumar Tiwari, Goyal administered the oath of office to eight new appointees at the swearing-in ceremony.
They included former Railway Board chief Jaya Verma Sinha, former IPS officer Swagat Das -- who held key posts in the Intelligence Bureau, Home Ministry and Cabinet Secretariat, among others -- Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer Sanjeev Kumar Jindal, former IAS officer Surendra Singh Meena and ex-Indian Forest Service officer Khushwant Singh Sethi.
Senior journalists P R Ramesh and Ashutosh Chaturvedi, and former Indian Legal Service officer Sudha Rani Relangi, have also been sworn in as information commissioners.
Relangi has also worked as the director of prosecution, Central Bureau of Investigation and joint secretary and legislative counsel in the Ministry of Law and Justice.
The names of the CIC and eight information commissioners were cleared during the meeting of the Modi-led committee comprising Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
