KALABURAGI l Monday l October 20, 2025 l `9.00 l PAGES 24 l CITY EDITION Gone in 4 minutes: Thieves steal Napoleon-era jewels at Louvre Robbers on Sunday broke into the iconic Paris museum and made off with the jewels in an audacious daylight robbery lasting 4 minutes nine items stolen from gallery of apollo Diamond-adorned crown recovered Around 9.30 am, several intruders broke a first-floor window, cut through the glass with a disc cutter, and headed straight to the Gallery of Apollo, officials said. They are believed to have entered the museum from the riverfront side, where construction is underway, used a freight elevator to reach the gallery, stole nine items from a 23-piece Napoleon collection and fled on scooters diamonds and emeralds, which belonged to Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III, was found damaged near the building ■ The value of the stolen items is still being assessed. Meanwhile, a manhunt is underway. It is unclear how many people were involved ■ Shortly after the thieves fled, a 19th-century crown adorned with 800 Metres is the distance from the robbery site to the Paris police HQ CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Gaza truce strained after Israel, Hamas trade fire 15 reported dead; Both sides blame each other of breaching ceasefire Agencies Just nine days after the guns fell silent in Gaza, the landmark ceasefire agreement appeared to be faltering on Sunday, with Israel carrying out fresh airstrikes in Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating the truce terms by firing at Israeli troops. Gaza’s civil defence agency, which operates under Hamas authority, said at least 15 people, including a woman and two children, were killed in Israeli strikes across the territory on Sunday Israel said it was check. ing reports of casualties. Israel’s military said Hamas militants opened fire on troops in parts of Rafah city that fall under Israeli control according to the agreed ceasefire lines. In response, the military launched fresh airstrikes on Hamas targets in southern Gaza, it said. Israel said it responded to at least three incidents in which “Hamas fired towards our troops standing behind the yellow line in the agreed-upon positions.” Hamas, however, insisted it was complying with the truce. Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday | afp The group said communication with its remaining units in Rafah had been cut off for months, and “we are not responsible for any incidents occurring in those areas”. The group reaffirmed its commitment to the ceasefire, claiming in a statement that Israel “continues to breach the agreement and fabricate flimsy pretexts to justify its crimes”. The escalation comes just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed security forces to take “strong action” against Hamas targets in Gaza over alleged ceasefire violations. Israel informed the Trump administration in advance of the strikes via the US command centre overseeing the ceasefire, Axios reported. A US official said Washington urged Israel to “show restraint”. The renewed tensions follow Israel’s demand on Saturday for Hamas to fulfil its ceasefire obligations by returning the remains of all 28 deceased hostages. meeting on oct 22 in delhi Ladakh representatives called for talks with MHA the key preconditions set by LAB and KDA to resume talks. The IN a significant thaw after delegation will include three repmonths of impasse, Ladakh’s resentatives each from LAB and key agitators are set to resume KDA, their legal advisor, and MP talks with the Centre, with an Haji Haneefa. Dorjay said they eight-member delegation from would push for the release of all the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and detainees, including climate acKargil Democratic Allitivist Sonam Wangchuk, ance (KDA), alongside who remains jailed unMP Haji Haneefa Jan, der the National Security scheduled to engage a Act, and seek compensaMinistry of Home Af- We welcome the tion for the victims. decision of the fairs (MHA) sub-com“The sub-committee Government of mittee on October 22 in meeting will allow us to India to invite us New Delhi. raise our issues freely, (LAB, KDA and LAB co-chair man from detainees’ release others) for talks in Chering Dorjay told to core demands of stateDelhi and look this newspaper that the hood and the Sixth forward to a MHA has invited them positive outcome Schedule,” Dorjay said. for talks chaired by the KDA leader Sajjad Karof the dialogue Union Home Secretary with respect to our gili said the LAB and . demands This marks the first diKDA will jointly attend rect engagement be- Chering Dorgay, LAB t h e s u b - c o m m i t t e e tween Ladakh repremeeting. sentatives and the “We are meeting for Centre after the dialogue broke statehood & Sixth Schedule stadown following protests in Leh tus, justice for September 24 vicon September 24 demanding tims, and release of detainees statehood and inclusion under including Sonam Wangchuk. We the Sixth Schedule. The violence believe only genuine dialogue left four people dead and over 80 can restore trust & fulfil Ladainjured in police action. kh’s aspirations,” he said. Ahead of the meeting, the The LAB and KDA, representMHA on October 17 announced a ing political, social, religious, judicial inquiry led by a retired and trade bodies across Leh and Supreme Court judge into the Kargil, have been seeking stateSeptember 24 incident—one of hood and Sixth Schedule status. f aya z w a n i @ Srinagar Centre writes to States states directed to snuff out bonded labour, trafficking J i t e n d r a C h o u b e y @ New Delhi Need organ, tissue donation teams in all hospitals K A V ITA BA J E L I - DATT @ New Delhi THE Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) has ALL hospitals in India should have dedicated teams to directed all states and Union Territories to intensify counsel families of potential organ and tissue donors, action against inter-state human trafficking and bondthe Centre said in a communication to all states. Hosed labour, following mounting concerns over slow pitals have been asked to report all deaths, make efforts progress in rehabilitation efforts. for timely counselling of family members, and encourIn a government order issued on September 25, Secage them for organ and tissue donation. retary Vandana Gurnani instructed all Chief SecretarThe move comes as India faces a huge gap between ies to constitute vigilance committees in every district the number of patients requiring human organ and and sub-division to track bonded and child labour castissue transplants and the availability of donors. es. States have also been asked to submit proposals for “It is essential that hospitals should constitute organ immediate financial assistance to resand tissue donation teams by involvcued labourers within three months of ing brain stem death committee memissuing release certificates. bers and transplant coordinator / The directive follows a Supreme Court counsellor,” said the National Organ Centre will Even if the order of November 22, 2024, which asked and Tissue Transplant Organization family does rehabilitate (NOTTO) in a letter to all states. NOT- not agree to 1.84 crore MoLE to consult with states to simplify TO is a national-level ogani- organ bonded procedures for identifying sation set up under the Un- donation, the labourers by and rehabilitating bonded press 2030. So far, labourers. This is the secoption for clusive ion health ministry. 35,000 ond such directive since NOTTO director Dr Anil tissue labourers December 2024, after the Kumar, in his letter, said the donation have been Centre expressed dissatisfaction with organ and tissue donation team must must be given freed the states’ progress. “However, not much be mandatorily notified of all the to the family deaths happening in hospitals. Ministry of progress seems to have been made,” the Dr Anil Kumar, “Even if the family does not agree to director, NOTTO Labour order observed. MoLE oversees the Bonded Labour organ donation, the option for tissue doSystem (Abolition) Act, 1976, and implements the “Renation must be given to the family Dr Kumar said in the ,” habilitation of Bonded Labour-2021” scheme, which proletter dated October 17. Tissues such as corneas, skin, vides compensation of `30,000 and rehabilitation grants bones, and heart valves can be donated from cases of of `1 lakh for men and `2 lakh for women. NCRB data brain-stem-death and cardiovascular deaths in hospitals for 2023 shows forced labour (23,520 cases) as the largor due to natural death cases. Tissues can be harvested up est human trafficking crime, followed by sexual exploito 10 hours after death. One donor can save eight lives. tation (17,944). Maharashtra, Telangana, and Odisha “India requires nearly one lakh corneas annually yet , reported the highest cases. only about one-third of this demand is being met. Bone Tina Kuriakose Jacob of the International Institute donation, in particular, plays a vital role in the treatfor Migration Development termed the order “a step ment of patients with trauma, nonunion of bone fractoward systematic review and monitoring to protect tures, congenital abnormalities, and other bone-relatthe poorest and most vulnerable workers.” ed disorders,” the letter said. B’luru pubs lose fizz, blame duty hike, poor infra B a l a C h a u h a n @Bengaluru The pub city is seemingly losing its spirit with “loss in business” by almost 25% in the last quarter. Sources in the food & beverage (F&B) industry told TNIE that the overall footfalls in their outlets have gradually reduced over the last few months. “There are several reasons for loss of business. Steep increase in Additional Excise Duty (AED) on Indian Made Liquor, fluctuation in beer prices within this year, long weekends, job insecurity and layoffs, heavy rain, bad road condition, traffic and lack of adequate parking space in the city have had a cumulative effect on people dining out,” said some of the owners of pubs and restobars. “We see many of our regular diners holding back. Corporate companies are cutting cost and people are becoming cautious spenders,” said the owners. One of the most perceptive shifts is the loss of footfalls in pubs and bars in IT hubs in the city they , added. “We manage to do 80% of our business in the CBD, but in the IT corridors, there has been a perceptible reduction by at least 20% and it’s huge,” said owners of some leading pubs and bars. They added that growing job insecurity and layoffs, especially in the IT sector, which is the main source of revenue for the F&B industry high rentals, cost of man, power and living are the reasons why people who earlier dined out every weekend have now cut down on their spending.  P5 The market is saturated. Sustaining them while maintaining quality and service is a challenge. Some businesses are suffering because of this as well Owners of pubs and bars express read Tahsildar denies nod to RSS march in Chittapur Kalaburagi: Tahsildar Nagaiah Hiremath on Saturday night issued an order, denying permission to an RSS route march in Chittapur town on Sunday over law and order concerns | P4 Tahsildar denies nod to RSS march in Chittapur | P4