Park encroachment becomes communal hotspot
The Hindu
Request to CP, seeking permission for structures for all communities!
City Commissioner of Police received a rather strange request on Thursday. A colony welfare association from city has urged him to grant permission to construct B. R. Ambedkar’s statue, prayer hall, dargah, and other structures inside an island park, to satisfy all communities and faiths in the colony! The police may not act on this appeal from Bhagyanagar Colony Welfare Association of Nampally, as the authority to grant building permission lies with GHMC. But the letter points to years of apathy and neglect of duty by GHMC and the police under whose nose the park was encroached upon by a religious structure.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.