The police have come to the aid of the young couple which had an inter-caste
love marriage, but is now in problem due to threat from the girl?s relatives.
The Karnataka Government is boasting of providing monthly pension for the
disabled in the state, while the truth is that there are hundreds of disabled people who
though are deserving are deprived of the pension.
A six year old boy who was found loitering in the bus stand area at KS Rao
Road in Mulki since the past couple of days, has been rescued by locals who are planning
to hand him over to children?s remand home authorities.
It is a house occupied by ill-fated people. If the man who ought to be the
bread winner of the family is suffering from mental illness; all his six children are
suffering from one disability or the other. Even their mother who was until now somehow
managing the family is at a loss as even she is facing visibility problems.
Her name is Anisha and she is just 11. But to her misfortune, she who
ought to be attending schools and enjoy the company of her friends, is now lying on the
hospital bed, battling a life threatening ailment.
Officials have set free four more bonded labourers from the stone quarry at
Varapade near Ukkuda on the night of December 1, Wednesday and have arrested the
quarry owner TMHA Adda alias Abdul Azeez. It may be recalled here that a team of
government officials following a raid on December 1 afternoon, had freed 39 bonded
labourers mostly hailing from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and some parts of Karnataka.
During the operation that continued even in the night, police found a woman named
Dhanalakshmi in a room with her five day old baby. Even her husband Ramaswami and
their six year sol Murugan were rescued. They are learnt to be from Tamil Nadu.
There were smiles at last in the otherwise sullen faces of the nearly 39 poor
labourers after they were freed from the quarry where they worked as bonded labourers
for the past six to eight years. The rescue operation took place following a raid to the
stone quarry at Ukkuda-Parapade run by a certain Adda alias Abdul Azeez, on December
1, Wednesday.
Boobashan was once a famous magician of this region who used to enthrall
as well as entertain people through his magical illusions. This popular magician who
has also taught the art to several, today in the autumn of his life is leading a solitary and
difficult life.
The plight of the nearly 232 members of around 211 families that have been facing the brunt of Endosulfan in Kokkada, Patrame and Nidle villages of Belthangady, continue since the past 10 years with the authorities least bothered about their pathetic state.
Four year old Ramiza who had sustained grievous injuries when a compound
wall had collapsed over her while she was playing on October 22, has now recovered.
But she is still lying on one of the beds of AJ Hospital in Mangalore-for the only reason
that her parents could not arrange for the funds to clear her hospital bills which has
crossed one lakh.