BELAGAVI MONDAY MAY 27, 2024 `9.00 PAGES 12 LATE CITY EDITION RESURGENT HAMAS LAUNCHES FRESH ROCKET ATTACKS TARGETING TEL AVIV The first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January sent Israelis scrambling for cover on Sunday, but there were no reports of casualties Israelis take cover in Herzliya during rocket fire from the Gaza Strip | AFP EIGHT PROJECTILES FIRED FROM RAFAH: IDF Israel’s army said at least eight rockets were fired towards the country’s central regions from Gaza’s Rafah, adding “a number” of the projectiles were intercepted. In Tel Aviv, rocket sirens blared for the first time in several months. The fresh attack is seen as a show of resilience by Hamas at a time when Israel’s war cabinet is set to discuss truce and hostage release deal ■ 81 ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA CONTINUES ■ Israel continued its air strikes on northern, central and southern areas of Gaza on Sunday with its military saying more than 50 “terrorist targets” were struck across the Palestinian enclave since Saturday night The Israeli army said its troops seized dozens of rocket parts and weapons from an arms depot operating inside a school in northern Gaza’s Jabalia PEOPLE KILLED IN GAZA ON SUNDAY, THE HAMAS-CONTROLLED HEALTH MINISTRY SAID 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 Six babies killed in Delhi hospital fire, five injured Was running without valid licence; doctors BAMS degree holders Rajkot gaming zone did not have fire dept’s NOC, says FIR D I L I P S I N G H K S H AT R I YA @ Ahmedabad Crowd in front of a children’s hospital in New Delhi’s Vivek Vihar area where a fire broke out on Saturday night killing six newborns | PARVEEN NEGI U J W A L J A L A L I @ New Delhi SIX newborns were killed and five others injured after a massive fire broke out at a private childcare hospital in Delhi’s Shahdara area late on Saturday night. According to police sources, the hospital was functioning without a valid licence and it did not have clearance from the Fire Department. The hospital did not even have the mandatory fire extinguisher. There was no emergency exit either, officials said. According to a senior officer, a total of seven infant bodies were sent for postmortem, including the body of one child who had died hours before the fire incident. “The child died a couple of hours before the incident during treatment. He had some heart problems. The hospital staff had intimated his parents around 8.30 pm on Saturday DCP (Shahdara) Suren,” dra Chaudhary told TNIE. T he hospital’s owner Dr Naveen Khichi (45) and duty doctor Dr Aaksh (26) were arrested. Police officials said the doctors on duty were not qualified to treat infants as they were BAMS degree holders. An FIR has been registered under IPC Sections 336 (act en- dangering life and personal safety of others) and 304A (causing death by negligence), 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide). The Delhi government has ordered a magisterial probe into the fire tragedy . The licence issued to the hospital had expired in March. “Even as per the expired licence, it was supposed to have only 5 beds .But 12 newborns were in the hospital at the time of the accident,” a senior officer said. The fire broke out around 11.30 pm on Saturday Delhi Fire Serv. ice Director Atul Garg said nine fire tenders were rushed to the spot. By the time firemen reached the spot, the building was already engulfed in flames. The firemen and police personnel rescued 12 infants from the building and took them to a nearby hospital. According to fire officials, it took them around 70 minutes to control the inferno. Officials said the probable cause of the fire was short circuit. According to sources, the babies died due to excessive heat and asphyxiation. The fire had not reached the room where the infants were kept. Strong winds ahead of the landfall of Cyclone Remal, in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The cyclone made landfall late on Sunday | PTI Bengal braces for heavy rain as Cyclone Remal makes landfall S U L A G N A S E N G U P TA @ Kolkata CYCLONE Remal intensified into a ‘severe cyclonic storm’ and made landfall between West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts on Sunday night with wind speeds ranging from 110120 km per hour and gusts reaching up to 135 kmph, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The IMD said the weather system will bring heavy to very heavy rainfall over South and North 24 Parganas, Purba Medinipur, Kolkata Howrah and Hooghly districts of West Bengal while heavy rain is likely in the state’s Paschim Medinipur, Purba Bardhaman and Nadia districts on May 26 and 27. Extremely heavy rains are also likely to lash parts of northeast India on May 27 and 28. Fishermen have been advised to not venture into the sea till May 28. Around 1.10 lakh people have been evacuated from coastal regions, including Sagar Island, Sunderbans, and Kakdwip, as a precautionary measure. Kolkata airport has suspended flight operations for 21 hours beginning from Sunday noon. The Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata suspended all cargo and container handling operations for 12 hours from Sunday evening. Railway operations in the port area will also be suspended during that time, officials said. Sixteen battalions each from the state disaster management force and the National Disaster Response Forces have been deployed in the coastal regions to help with evacuation and relief works. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting to review response and preparedness. P5 A day after the deadly blaze at TRP Gaming Zone in Gujarat’s Rajkot, the city police on Sunday registered a First Information Report (FIR) as per which the facility lacked fire safety equipment and was operating without the required ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the fire department. The toll from the blaze climbed to 28 on Sunday . As per the complaint registered by the police, “The owner of the TRP Zone constructed a gaming area using an iron and sheet fabrication structure, approximately 50 meters wide, 60 meters long, and two to three floors high. Despite knowing the severe fire risk, they operated the gaming zone without effective firefighting equipment or a fire department NOC.” Rajkot taluka police have booked six persons for culpable homicide not amounting to murder including Dhaval Corporation proprietor Dhaval Thakkar, Raceway Enterprise partners Ashoksinh Jadeja, Kiritsinh Jadeja, Prakashchand Hiran, Yuvrajsinh Solanki and Rahul Rathod, as per the FIR. However, Rajkot Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava said the accused have presented evidence of fire safety equipment. Meanwhile, the Gujarat High Court on Sunday took suo motu cognizance of the incident, calling it prima facie a “manmade disaster”. The matter will be heard on Monday The court . may issue a directive concerning the state’s game zones. Big Knights eclipse Sunrisers in one-sided final G O M E S H S @ Chennai HEADISHEK is a moniker Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma earned for destroying oppositions, setting record partnerships and touching heady heights during powerplays. They rewrote the batting manual and cooked the winning recipe for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Heinrich Klaasen provided the finishing touches. Bowlers led by captain Pat Cummins then make sure to secure the matches. Put up big scores and out-bat oppositions. On Sunday with the tempera, ture hovering around 40 degree Celsius during the day Kolkata , Kolkata Knight Riders players celebrate after beating Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai on Sunday. This is their 3rd IPL title after 2012 & 2014 | ASHWIN PRASATH Knight Riders, armed with an array of bowlers — both incisive and utility — led by the ever-dependable Mitchell Starc had only one thing in mind. Stop the openers from scoring big and restrict in middle overs. But in the most one-sided final, KKR not only managed to send Headishek home early but tore into the batting order. A late rearguard by Cummins helped them to reach a figure — 113 — that they usually would score in the first eight overs. With a strong KKR support in the stands, Starc delivered the ball of the season to clean up Abhishek on the fifth delivery of the match — a sharp outswinger that clipped the top of off stump. And Vaibhav Arora’s outswinger sent back Head in the next over. Then Starc removed Rahul Tripathi in the fifth, and KKR were in the driving seat. Their mystery bowlers, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy tweaked the sto, ry a little further. Venkatesh Iyer’s fifty ensured no hiccups for KKR. A highly-entertaining IPL that saw records of highest scores turned into a dampener. An antithesis. Even as a storm set to ravage Kolkata late night, this news of IPL triumph would help fans to tide over the dark and dreary night with optimism. After all, KKR has won P11 the title after 10 years. In 24 hrs, 51 die in road accidents across state EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bengaluru IN a span of 24 hours, Karnataka witnessed horrific road accidents that claimed the lives of 51 individuals, marking one of the highest tolls in a day in the recent past. Referring to a road accident in Hassan district on Sunday morning, Additional Director General of Police (Traffic & EXPRESS READ 13 fall ill after drinking contaminated water Mysuru: Thirteen people fell ill after drinking contaminated water at Muduvenahalli near Kollegal in Chamarajanagara district on Sunday. Sewage and rainwater entering the borewells could be the reason for contamination, officials said | P5 12 people killed as truck overturns on bus in UP Shahjahanpur: Twelve people, including six women and three children, were killed when a gravel-loaded dumper truck overturned on their bus in Shahjahanpur district on Saturday night. Nine others were injured in the incident. Road Safety) Alok Kumar posted on X on Sunday, “In last 24 hours, 51 lives lost in road accidents, one of the highest toll in the recent past. Many of these caused due to rash and reckless driving. Road safety needs responsible behaviour from all the stakeholders.” In 2023, on an average 34 people were killed every day in road accidents across the state, with the most severe occurring on national and state highways. 6 killed as truck rams into toppled car near Hassan Hassan: Six people of a family died on the spot when their car was rammed by an oncoming truck after it hit a divider and toppled to the right of the road, near Hassan early on Sunday morning. The family was coming from Mangaluru to Karahalli village, Bengaluru rural | P5 Tiger mauls woman to death in HD Kote E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Mysuru A 48-year-old woman was mauled to death by a tiger in HD Kote taluk on Saturday night. Her body was found in the forest early on Sunday morning. Foresters identified the woman as Chikkamma aka Chikki of Maladavadi Haadi in N Beguru. She was attacked by the tiger while she was grazing goats at Moorband Betta. When Chikki did not return home till late in the evening, her family members, villagers and forest staff started searching for her. Her mutilated body was found near the forest watchtower, and the tiger had dragged her body for a distance. Hediyala ACF G Ravindra said, “To monitor the movement of the tiger, around 40 camera traps have been installed,” he said. Bandipur Tiger Reserve Field Director S Prabhakaran, ACF Ravindra and RFO Manjunath Bagewadi visited the spot, and found tiger pugmarks closeby They issued . a cheque for Rs 5 lakh to the woman’s family . Most of the accidents were reported on the weekends. Traffic expert Sreehari MN said the authorities need to strictly enforce traffic laws and hold public awareness campaigns. Most accidents are due to poor riding/driving skills. RTO rules for approving and testing drivers need to be strict. Most accidents reported on weekends are under the influence of alcohol, he said. CID to probe custodial death EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Davanagere THE Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will take over the investigation into the alleged death of a man in police custody in Channagiri on Friday, said Superintendent of Police Uma Prashanth here on Sunday . She said the district police have arrested 25 persons for vandalising the police station, attacking police personnel and damaging police vehicles, based on video evidence available with the police. The accused have been charged under Sections 353 and 307 of the Indian Penal Code. CONTINUED ON: P4
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